Your thoughts on this structure?
I am trying to create a smooth blind structure for $100 buy-in tourney 
. 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
. 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
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
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
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?
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
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
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