Chips, Chips, Chips

Here's a picture of my stack that I took last night.

I like to keep my chips in a big triangle formation. It's easy to instantly know how many chips I have, since I can use the formula for the sum of the 1st N positive numbers, which is N*(N+1)/2. I just have to count the base layer of the triangle and I know how many stacks I have, and I keep my stacks in 20 chips each.

55 stacks is 11 racks. I normally buy in 2 racks, so 8 racks in 4/8 chip structure game is 100 big bets. I have won 100 big bets only a couple of times in my life. In other words I have only had my big triangle to almost 10 stacks in the base layer, only twice. Soon, I envision, my massive triangle being a two story condominium of chips! I like triangles.

Here's the mapping by the way for the mathematically challenged:

N(2) = 3
N(3) = 6
N(4) = 10
N(5) = 15
N(6) = 21
N(7) = 28
N(8) = 36
N(9) = 45
N(10) = 55