What should blinds be set at for a cash game?

Question

I am hosting a cash game and wanted to know what I should set the blinds at. Suggestions for games with average $50, $20, and $5 stacks would be appreciated, or just a percentage of the average stack.

Answer 1

Generally the MINIMUM buy in for a ring game is 20X the BB, while the MAX buy in is 100X.  30X usually makes most people comfortable.  So divide your buy ins by 30 to get the BB amount.  $50/30 = $1.67.  So round that down to $1.50, and make the SB $0.75.  If you give people chips in $0.25 denominations it will go easily enough.  Here's how I would set things up, going by buy in / BB / SB

$50 / 1.5 / 0.75

$20 / 0.75 / 0.50

$5 / 0.10 / 0.05

Answer 2

sounds like u guys are playing for alot of money.  my friends and i don't play for as much.  we normally play tourney but if we do play cash, blinds are 25/50 cents.  we do 25, 50, 1 dollar, 5 dollar chips.  buyin is 20.  sounds low but the people i play with usually buy back in at least once.

Answer 3

I usually set my minium buy in at 20 dollars. and make blinds $1 and $2 and just leave them that way I do not put a max on the bet we play no limit. So even with small blinds there can be big action

Answer 4

Keep the blinds in proportion to the buy in.  For a $20 buy in the blinds could be 20 and 50 cents or less, depending how serious a game you expect. If it's mainly just for fun keep the blinds low and let the players enjoy.

Basically blinds are set so each player can afford to play 100 hands with their initial buy in.