This is nicely made, but as other people have pointed out, it appears to be optimizing in a kind of weird way for a real poker game. It seems to me that the un

This is nicely made, but as other people have pointed out, it appears to be optimizing in a kind of weird way for a real poker game. It seems to me that the underlying problem is that cheap pre-mixed chip cases usually have terrible denominations (if printed) and/or too few of each (sometimes only 50), which just doesn't make any sense. Nobody ever needs denominations that differ by a factor of 2, and you need way more than 50 of any one type to play with more than 6 people. For our 0.05/0.1 10$ cash games with 8-10 people, one day about 15 years ago we just went and filled a 500 chip case with nice ceramics (Old Havana Poker Club, they're still around): 150x 5 200x 25 120x 100 30x 500 (just for good measure) Obviously we take the numbers printed on the chips to be cents. This system has worked perfectly ever since and still offers sufficient flexibility for the occasional tournament; I can only recommend solving the problem this way once and for all. (Of course you need to adjust for the kind of game you play.)