Order chips for home cash game

I am planning to organize home cash poker games in India. The buy-in would be ₹1000 (approx $15) and blinds would be ₹10/₹20. I want to order a custom 500 chips set for my games. We will typically have 8-9 players for the games.

I am thinking the initial stack size

₹10 - 15 chips
₹50 - 9 chips
₹100 - 4 chips

So I'm thinking of ordering a poker set with 150 ₹10 chips, 100 ₹50 chips, 100 ₹100 chips, 50 ₹500 chips, 50 ₹1000 chips, and 50 ₹5000 chips.

Ordering the ₹1000 and ₹5000 chips for tournament games. Is this a good mix? Any suggestions?

Generally speaking, you want the chip values to increase by 4-5 times per colour. Smaller jumps are best done at the bottom of the scale. There are good reasons to have smaller jumps at the bottom - colour up for tourneys and change/rebuy distribution in cash.


Having said that, if you are sure you will never play cash for less than 10/20, then 10/25/100 should work as "Standard" values that fit your game. Since it's a custom set, and 10 is a non standard denomination, you may want to go non standard all the way with 10/20/100 or something like that.

mtl mile end said:

Generally speaking, you want the chip values to increase by 4-5 times per colour. Smaller jumps are best done at the bottom of the scale. There are good reasons to have smaller jumps at the bottom - colour up for tourneys and change/rebuy distribution in cash.


Having said that, if you are sure you will never play cash for less than 10/20, then 10/25/100 should work as "Standard" values that fit your game. Since it's a custom set, and 10 is a non standard denomination, you may want to go non standard all the way with 10/20/100 or something like that.

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It's not a completely custom set. I am trying to build one from the standard chip options available from discountpokershop etc. I was trying to go 10/50/250/1000 but couldn't find 250 denomination chips. Was also thinking about 5/20/100/500 but 20 is not common either.

I own many casino used sets but have not been active in the chip community for some time. I know the standard us casino denominations are $1, 5, 25, 100, 500, 1000. Less common are $10, 20, 50, and quite rare (or from long ago) $.25, .50, and 2.50, Common denominations for chips sold to the mass market, for some reason, are probably more restricted than real casino chips in terms of available denominations. I never understood why a small stakes cash set was almost impossible to find with real denominations like $.10, .25, etc. It would be easier to find 25K denom chips than .25 denom chips.

If your stakes for cash are 10/20 in your local currency, you are quite lucky. You can use a set of standard denomination chips with dollar signs, or a standard tournament denomination set (no dollar signs) for your game. For some reason, I have never liked using $25 or T25 chips for $.25 chips, something about that decimal point I guess. You can use 5/25/100 for your game if you want, or spend lots of effort searching for chips with 10/20 denominations. I don't recommend basing your purchase of a chipset on the denominations available unless you have already determined that the other factors involved result in all choices being equally desirable to you and the denoms are better in one of these otherwise equal choices. There are so many factors involved in choosing a set of chips, non standard denominations is a fairly insignificant factor (usually). I think most people would choose non denominated chips that they like over chips that they like less, but that have the right denoms.