Setting up Home Game .02/.05

JDAWG5 · Apr 16, 2012

One of my friends suggested we try switching back to cash game for a week.

We used to play for $10 buy-ins, but it got ugly when people would bust out, buy in for another $10, and end up losing $20 on the night.

So my question is what chip denominations, and how many of each chip should each player start with.

I think the chips would be $.01, $.05, $.25, and $1 right?

WVHillbilly · Apr 16, 2012

JDAWG5 said:
One of my friends suggested we try switching back to cash game for a week.

We used to play for $10 buy-ins, but it got ugly when people would bust out, buy in for another $10, and end up losing $20 on the night.

So my question is what chip denominations, and how many of each chip should each player start with.

I think the chips would be $.01, $.05, $.25, and $1 right?

Sounds good. You could do .20 instead of .25 if you thought that increment might get used more but either is fine. Your .05 chip will be your main chip and you may have no need for the $1 chip at all since a huge stack might only be $20 at the end of the night and that's only 80 .25 chips total. Although rebuys might be easier to do with $1 chips with the rebuyer making change from the other players at the table.

Edit: You could also make it a .05/.05 game and get rid of the .01 chip altogether.

JDAWG5 · Apr 16, 2012

WVHillbilly said:
Sounds good. You could do .20 instead of .25 if you thought that increment might get used more but either is fine. Your .05 chip will be your main chip and you may have no need for the $1 chip at all since a huge stack might only be $20 at the end of the night and that's only 80 .25 chips total. Although rebuys might be easier to do with $1 chips with the rebuyer making change from the other players at the table.

Edit: You could also make it a .05/.05 game and get rid of the .01 chip altogether.

Ok thanks, how would you distribute the chips?

Maybe 20 ($.05) and 20 ($.20)

WVHillbilly · Apr 16, 2012

I'd want more .05 than anything. For a .05/.05 game I'd want at least 40 .05 chips in a starting stack + more chips looks cooler!

So for .05/.05
40 *.05
15 * .20.

If .02/.05:
20*.01
40*.05
14*.20

WVHillbilly · Apr 16, 2012

I'd ditch the pennies BTW so the smallest change you'll need at the end of the night is a nickel.

JDAWG5 · Apr 16, 2012

WVHillbilly said:
I'd want more .05 than anything. For a .05/.05 game I'd want at least 40 .05 chips in a starting stack + more chips looks cooler!

So for .05/.05
40 *.05
15 * .20.

If .02/.05:
20*.01
40*.05
14*.20

Ok thanks, this makes a lot more sense.

JDAWG5 · Apr 16, 2012

WVHillbilly said:
I'd ditch the pennies BTW so the smallest change you'll need at the end of the night is a nickel.

O yea, how would this work. Everyone usually shows up with $5 bills or $10 bills.

So would we just round to the nearest dollar?

For example if player A has 12.60, and Player B has $5.40.

Then Player A would get $13 and Player B would get 5?

WVHillbilly · Apr 16, 2012

Just get yourself a few $$s worth of change or have your full $5 BI the 1st time you play in nickels, dimes, and quarters ($1, $2, $2).

OMGITSOVER9K · Apr 16, 2012

do the card game to decide where the change goes when they colour up in tourneys?

WV will prob know what I'm on about since he has more live exp than me (i'm assuming)

WVHillbilly · Apr 16, 2012

It's different imo when you're playing cash though. Every chip is worth it's actual value so you should be able to cash out for the actual value at the end of the night.

Keeping a few bucks worth of change around shouldn't cause too much hassle.

MediaBLITZ · Apr 16, 2012

Well yeah - if it's a cash game it's $ value for chip value. No rounding up needed.
What are the blinds going to be. Multiply by 100 and that's the max buy-in (may want to set up a 40% min buy-in).
Multiply by the nuber of players - let's say 6. You will need chips for 600 BB.
Now add the fact bust outs may want to buy back in so you need extra chips for that (or Bob shows up with visiting cousin from Vegas) - unless you want to allow folks to buy from players at the table - which would be a protocol violation in my book but it's your game and you have to supply the chips.

WVHillbilly · Apr 16, 2012

Actually another thing you should at least consider is to get a different set of chips for your cash game vs your tourney set.

I had an experience back when we 1st started playing home games that makes me say that. We used to play 1 $20 tourney and then play 50nl cash afterward and we had 1 particular douche who, we figured out after being short on the cash draw a couple of times, would pocket a couple tourney chips that were later used as $5 chips in the cash game. He'd then sneak them into his stack during the night. Once we figured it out we introduced a different set of chips for the cash game and the shortages went away.

Best part is that, though we all knew he was doing it, we agreed we'd never confront him about it because he was so bad. He continued to be a huge donator in the game until he date raped some girl and we stopped inviting him. Like I said HUGE douche.

So while your friends hopefully aren't on the level of that guy (luckily few are), you never know when someone new will join the game. Better to be safe than sorry imo.

JDAWG5 · Apr 16, 2012

WVHillbilly said:
Actually another thing you should at least consider is to get a different set of chips for your cash game vs your tourney set.

I had an experience back when we 1st started playing home games that makes me say that. We used to play 1 $20 tourney and then play 50nl cash afterward and we had 1 particular douche who, we figured out after being short on the cash draw a couple of times, would pocket a couple tourney chips that were later used as $5 chips in the cash game. He'd then sneak them into his stack during the night. Once we figured it out we introduced a different set of chips for the cash game and the shortages went away.

Best part is that, though we all knew he was doing it, we agreed we'd never confront him about it because he was so bad. He continued to be a huge donator in the game until he date raped some girl and we stopped inviting him. Like I said HUGE douche.

So while your friends hopefully aren't on the level of that guy (luckily few are), you never know when someone new will join the game. Better to be safe than sorry imo.

Wow that guy is a total waste of life.

Yea, these are my best friends they would never do anything like that. Also we only do Cash or Tourney in 1 night, never both. You are right about new people joining though, some could try to pull **** like that.

WVHillbilly · Apr 16, 2012

Yeah he was a total PoS that was one of those coworker of a friend additions to the game. The $$ value of your game is small enough that it probably doesn't matter anyway but I thought I'd throw it out there.

JDAWG5 · May 20, 2012

WVHillbilly said:
I'd want more .05 than anything. For a .05/.05 game I'd want at least 40 .05 chips in a starting stack + more chips looks cooler!

So for .05/.05
40 *.05
15 * .20.

If .02/.05:
20*.01
40*.05
14*.20

(Sorry for bump)

Were going to do this exact set-up this week.

I just realized that I won't have enough .05 chips.

So should I just give out different color chips, and have them represent the same .05?

Or should I change the amount of each type of chip everyone gets?

Thanks

MediaBLITZ · May 20, 2012

JDAWG5 said:
(Sorry for bump)

So should I just give out different color chips, and have them represent the same .05?

Or should I change the amount of each type of chip everyone gets?

Thanks

Totally up to you dawg, but if you change the amount you still have make sure you enough .10 to go around (or .25, etc).

So it kind of depends on the chips you have on hand.

JDAWG5 · May 20, 2012

MediaBLITZ said:
Totally up to you dawg, but if you change the amount you still have make sure you enough .10 to go around (or .25, etc).

So it kind of depends on the chips you have on hand.

I think I'm just going to have 2 chips colors equal $.05, and another color represent .20.

I think that won't be too hard for people to figure out.

WVHillbilly · May 20, 2012

What's your chip breakdown and we can probably come up with a better solution?

JDAWG5 · May 20, 2012

WVHillbilly said:
What's your chip breakdown and we can probably come up with a better solution?

I have a set that contains:

200 Whites

150 Reds

100 Blues

50 Greens

So the whites are gonna be the $.05. Reds will be $.20. I was thinking I could also use the blues as $.05.

Does this make sense, or do you think there is a better way?

WVHillbilly · May 20, 2012

You have how many players?

JDAWG5 · May 20, 2012

WVHillbilly said:
You have how many players?

5 or 6 is the average.

WVHillbilly · May 20, 2012

Ok I'd go with
Whites = .05
Reds = .25
Blues = $1

Starting stacks of
25 Whites
15 Reds
which gives you 8 potential buy-ins

I'd do any rebuys with the same stacks until they're gone then just hand them blues for rebuys and let them make change from the table.

JDAWG5 · May 20, 2012

WVHillbilly said:
Ok I'd go with
Whites = .05
Reds = .25
Blues = $1

Starting stacks of
25 Whites
15 Reds
which gives you 8 potential buy-ins

I'd do any rebuys with the same stacks until they're gone then just hand them blues for rebuys and let them make change from the table.

Thank you so much WV. You are the man.

Can't wait to try this out.

JDAWG5 · May 26, 2012

We did the .05/.05 last night, it was awesome.

I was down early, I had KQ and flopped a K.

He shoved after turn.

I called, he showed KJ. (In my head I'm like YES!!!!!!!!!!!)

He rivers a J lol.

I'm down to $1, and decide to reload another $4.

Then I pretty much am card dead, and keep folding for a while.

Then from about 11:30 to 12:30 I mad my move.

I ended up at $17.50 by the end of the night, for a profit of $8.50.

Definitely gonna do this setup again next week.

WVHillbilly · May 26, 2012

Congrats. Did you seem to have enough of each chip to play without too much change making?

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