I know the game seems odd but it usually lasts for hours and the players keep it pretty low key, lots of limping and folding on the flop. So think over the actual buy in and blinds for your game. The problem with this is that I don't believe anyone makes 'stock' nickels anymore so you would have to do some chip customization. Then you would want chips of 0.25, 1, and 5 (I would recommend a 100/300/200 breakdown for such a game, that would give you an overkill bank of 1325.) Others would even recommend blinds as low as 0.05-0.10 for a 200 BB deep game on a $20 buy in, in which case you would want denominations of 0.05, 0.25, 1, and maybe 5. Usually for a $20 buy in game, PCFers would recommend blinds of 0.25-0.25 so that's at least 80 BB deep. Normally I would recommend some combination of 0.50, 1, and 5 denominated chips for a 0.50-1 game, but per the question above, if you are only doing buy-ins of 20 you game plays very shallow and you really wouldn't need a lot of big denomination chips at all. (If you are looking for low end pricing, but decent quality, the Claysmith offerings like 'Desert Heat' are probably worth checking out.)

My rule of thumb is 50-60 chips per player is usually plenty when thinking of the whole size of a set.

Not to skip Winberg 's important question above, I will add some other answers.

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