Home Game chip denominations
In regard to viewing Graham's thread, I thought this might be an interesting topic.
How many "Big Blinds" do you guys think is appropriate (to start the tournament with) for a home game consisting of anywhere from 5-10 players?
What do you think the chip values (in ratio) should be?
I'm basically just wondering how you guys run your own home games.
Sometimes when we play with a table of 9 or so, we start with 3500 in total chip value.
We use 3 different chip denominations - Values: 500, 100, 50.
# of chips valued at 50: 4
100: 13
500: 3
total: 20 chips
We start the blinds at 50/100 then, 100/200, 150/300 etc. so that the game won't drag on too long, this also makes it so there aren't a lot of chips on the table to have to move around, and most of the time the game usually lasts 2-3 hours.
Anyone have a good style to introduce?
How many "Big Blinds" do you guys think is appropriate (to start the tournament with) for a home game consisting of anywhere from 5-10 players?
What do you think the chip values (in ratio) should be?
I'm basically just wondering how you guys run your own home games.
Sometimes when we play with a table of 9 or so, we start with 3500 in total chip value.
We use 3 different chip denominations - Values: 500, 100, 50.
# of chips valued at 50: 4
100: 13
500: 3
total: 20 chips
We start the blinds at 50/100 then, 100/200, 150/300 etc. so that the game won't drag on too long, this also makes it so there aren't a lot of chips on the table to have to move around, and most of the time the game usually lasts 2-3 hours.
Anyone have a good style to introduce?
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Home Poker Tourney - How to Set Up a Poker Blinds Schedule or Structure for a Poker Tournament
You are starting with 35 bb and after the first level your ave m<17 already. After the first level if you haven't accumulated any chips at all you will already be feeling the pressure and with any kind of a preflop raise that gets called, you will be pretty much pot committed on the flop anyways.
Lets say in lvl2 you have 3000 chips left. One limper, you raise to 800 with KK, the blinds fold and the limper calls. Pot = 800+800+300 = 1900. You have 2200 in chips left. Flop is Axx. What do you do now? You don't have enough chips left for any post-flop play. Any kind of bet leaves you crippled so do you push or check/fold?
10,000 starting stack as follows:
25 - 12
100 - 12
500 - 7 (or 9)
1000 - 5 (or 4)
Blinds:
25-50
50-100
75-150
100-200
10 min Break (chip up 25s)
200-400
300-600
400-800
500-1000
10 min Break (chip up 100s and introduce 5000 chip)
1000-2000
1500-3000
2500-5000
4000-8000
We tried the ante but it wasn't popular as it held up the game too often. I haven't seen the game reach that last blind level (maybe once). It usually ends at 1500-3000 and sometimes one more level during good heads up matches.
We like lot of chips in play which reduces making change. However, we do chip up at the right blind levels and introduce a 5000 chip later on.
This structure usually gives us a tourney for 3.5 to 4 hours using a 20 minute level. Sometimes we add 2 5000 chips for a 20K starting stack and add a few more blind levels if want a longer, deeper tourney.
I've played a lot of live tourneys and this is one of my favourites. The deep stack play before the first break is real poker.