Your thoughts on this structure?

I am trying to create a smooth blind structure for $100 buy-in tourney :D . I would appreciate your thoughts on this.

Blind Schedule

Increase every thirty minutes as follows:

1/2 - 2/4
3/6 - 5/10
10/20 - 15/30
20/40 - 30/60
50/100* - 100/150
100/200 - 200/400
300/600 - 500/1,000
750/1,500 - 1,000/2,000**

*chip up to nearest $50 chip. Removing $1, $5, and $10 chips from table.
**No more increases after this point. Play until there is a winner.

Starting Chip Counts:

White ($1) x 10 = $10
Blue ($5) x 10 = $50
Red($10) x 4 = $40
Black($50) x 0 = $0
Green($100) x 0 = $0
14 Total = $100

Comments

  • White ($1) x 10 = $10
    Blue ($5) x 10 = $50
    Red($10) x 4 = $40
    Black($50) x 0 = $0
    Green($100) x 0 = $0
    14 Total = $100

    This colour scheme will probably be confuising. Why not stick with standard casino colours?

    White=1
    Red=5
    Green=25
    Black=100

    Also, a $10 denomination chip is usually not necessary if using $5 and $25 chips.

    ScottyZ
  • Is blue $50 then?
  • They don't have $50 chips at the casino.
  • What would a be a good value for blue? 500? 1,000?
  • $500, since it's closest to purple.
  • Now what about the blinds themself? Does it seem fair? I think leans more towards better players but there's nothing wrong with that ... is there?
  • Now what about the blinds themself? Does it seem fair?
  • it common in home games for blue to be $10. if you look at on line sites that have a graphic for $10 chips its always blue. Just because the casino dosent have $10 chips dosnt make them any less convinet in a home game.
  • if you look at on line sites that have a graphic for $10 chips its always blue.

    Just a few minutes ago, I happened to see a chip set on Ebay with blue chips marked as $50. At various points in my life (both casino and home games), I've seen blue chips used as $0.50, $1, $10, $20, $50, and $5,000 chips. Technically that doesn't disagree with what you said I guess.

    Okay, getting back to the real question... :)

    That blind structure may be too steep around Rounds 4-6. It's always useful to look at blinds in terms of the average stack. I like to consider 10*Big Blind (and lower) to be a short stack.

    Look at your Round 5 for example. Let's suppose 1/4 of the players have been eliminated during the first 2 hours. Blinds are 10/20. Average stack would be 133, and a short stack would be 200.

    Since the median stack typically lower than the average stack in a tournament, this means that over half of the remaining players at the 10/20 level are short stacks, actually with ~6 Big Blinds or less, and therefore are facing (in most cases) an all-in or fold pre-flop decision every hand.

    Even supposing half the field has been eliminated during Rounds 1-4 (which itself suggests a tough blind structure), the average stack would be 200, which is still a short stack at 10*Big Blind.

    Of course, this is all relative to how long you wish the tournament to last. Having a lot of short stacks after 2 hours of play might be fine if you're looking for a 3 or 4 hour tournament.

    ScottyZ
  • Actually I am trying to make it a smooth blind structure. I don't mind the tourney running for many hours. I want to have set-up where everyone will have time to play rather than a gambling crap shoot.

    What would you suggest?

    1/2 2/4
    3/6 5/10
    10/20 20/40
    30/60 40/80
    50/100 75/150
    100/200 150/300
    200/400 250/500
    300/600 500/1000 no more increases

    Does that seem any better?
  • Since the blinds are the same for Round 5, you still have the same problem.

    These blind structures seem to be more in the right ballpark for a long tournament if the initial stack was something in the 400-600 range instead of 100.

    Also try

    www.homepokertourney.com

    for some specific examples.

    ScottyZ
  • Here's the structure I use for my home tourneys...
    They run about 5-7 hrs... depending on the number of players and how said players play! (if that makes sense?)

    Even without playing a hand you won't become short stacked til near the end of the 3rd hour... lots of play... 4 chip colours...

    With more than 40 entries you can add blue as $500 chips and colour up the green after the 150-300 blind level.


    Starting Chips: $300
    White ($1)......10
    Red ($5)......... 8
    Green ($25)..... 6
    Black ($100).... 1

    Blinds (30 Mins)
    1-2
    2-4
    Break
    3-6
    5-10
    Break (Chip Race-white)
    10-20
    15-30
    Break
    20-40
    30-60
    Break (Chip Race-red)
    50-100
    75-150
    Break
    100-200
    150-300
    200-400
    300-600
  • I like this structure... it has a certain symmetry in that
    you race off chips every three levels.

    1-2
    2-3
    3-5

    race whites

    5-10
    10-15
    15-25

    race reds

    25-50
    50-75
    75-125

    race greens

    100-200
    200-300
    300-500

    race blacks

    500-1000
    1000-1500
    1500-2500

    race purples

    2000-3000
    3000-5000
    5000-10000

    race yellows

    et cetera
  • We are hoping to get around 100 players. Does this change anything? The tourney is going to start at 2pm. and would like to see it end before 12 am (or sooner).
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