Poker Chip Stacks
I have a question about how you guys stack your chips. I often find myself stacking chips in bunches but I have trouble keeping track of how much is in each stack.
How do you stack your chips if you have say, 25, 50, 100 and 500 coloured chips and start out with 2500?
I generally start out as below, but then seem to lose track of how to keep them organized.
25 in 2 stacks of 200 = 400 chips
50 in 2 stacks of 400 = 800 chips
100 in 1 stack of 500 = 500 (3 x 100 chips left dangling somewhere)
500 in 1 stack of 500 = 500
Any suggestions or tips? Should you try to keep things simple by say, stacking everything in groups of 500?
Thanks,
Rubens
How do you stack your chips if you have say, 25, 50, 100 and 500 coloured chips and start out with 2500?
I generally start out as below, but then seem to lose track of how to keep them organized.
25 in 2 stacks of 200 = 400 chips
50 in 2 stacks of 400 = 800 chips
100 in 1 stack of 500 = 500 (3 x 100 chips left dangling somewhere)
500 in 1 stack of 500 = 500
Any suggestions or tips? Should you try to keep things simple by say, stacking everything in groups of 500?
Thanks,
Rubens
Comments
I've seen this before and I said to myself when I get enough chips I would do this. It's probably the nicest looking chips tack I have seen. My only concern is that as you build the pyramid out it gives you limited room to shuffle.
Interesting. Ok, a couple of questions.
What would you suggest then for when the tournament just begins or in a small home game (less than 20 people)? Your not starting out with a lot of chips making stacks of 20 look a little off.
I've always kept my small chip sizes out and most visible, generally because early on your not necessarily betting with the larger chips as much. In a nutshell, whatever chips I am going to bet most often with will be the most conveniently accessible for me. Does that make sense?
A general tournament rule is that the larger denomination chips be out front and visible to the other players.
Ok cool, thanks for the tip.
lol I do the exact same thing....weird
LMAO, that's absolutely hilarious! I'd do the same thing, a little nudge under the table to watch that bad boy fall!
So awesome.........that stack looks so nice I want to eat it! Some day, I will own Paulsons.
When people ask what I do for a living I say, "I build pyramids."
Thanks for the pic post lesson moose, much appreciated. As i said, not as nicely colored as yours, but its all i had. LOL
Well folks, I tried the pyramid and it worked out quite nicely. I learned a lesson though. Really keep track of how much you have because I had a pretty big stack and when I went all-in, I wasn't sure exactly what I had when asking for a count.
So, is it as simple as a three chip base rotating around the centre axis?
Whats next on the agenda...the golden gate bridge in pokerchips perhaps. Now that could be a fun one to experiment with. LOL Wonder where a good place would be to buy 10-20,000 pokerchips to begin the architectural pokerchip 7 wonders of the world exhibit. LOL
FYP.
That would be moose's garage. He has them stored in there so the wife won't kill him. Every weekend in the summer, while the neighbours are mowing the lawn, moose is in the garage playing with his chips. He will eventually be written up in one of those "odd news" stories on Yahoo. Sort of like the guy who died beneath his collapsed mountain of old newspapers.
But this year when I play the WSOP I plan to make it to the final table and I will build my chip design so it can be displayed on tv....
On a serious note if for some strange reason the planets do align and I get magically transported to the final table I will post here for design ideas and see if I can get them built before the final table starts....