Blind structure for the tournament

AcesUp

Please let me know what you think of the blind structure of the tournament. Too slow too fast? Should I add antes?

3000 starting chips
20 minute levels

25-25
25-50
50-100
75-150
100-200
150-300
300-600
400-800
500-1000
1000-2000
2000-4000
4000-8000
10,000-20,000
15,000-30,000
20,000-40,000

Gide

Hi, just my opinion but I find the increase to high after the 500-1000 level. For my tourneys, I try to keep the augmentation at a max of 50% so it's not so much of a crap shoot at the end. I've put your structure in excel...

BB % increase
Level 1 25
Level 2 50 100%
Level 3 100 100%
Level 4 150 50%
Level 5 200 33%
Level 6 300 50%
Level 7 600 100%
Level 8 800 33%
Level 9 1000 25%
Level 10 2000 100%
Level 11 4000 100%
Level 12 8000 100%
Level 13 20,000 150%
Level 14 30,000 50%
Level 15 40,000 33%


In 21 minutes, between the end of level 11 and the start of level 13 your big blind pass from 4,000 to 20,000. I find this to much pressure on the player who made it this far in the tourney...

Gide

Wolffhound

I think the concensus is no ante, depending on the quality of players, ante's will slow things down to a crawl and become an issue at the table.

AcesUp

Gide wrote:

Hi, just my opinion but I find the increase to high after the 500-1000 level. For my tourneys, I try to keep the augmentation at a max of 50% so it's not so much of a crap shoot at the end. I've put your structure in excel...

BB % increase
Level 1 25
Level 2 50 100%
Level 3 100 100%
Level 4 150 50%
Level 5 200 33%
Level 6 300 50%
Level 7 600 100%
Level 8 800 33%
Level 9 1000 25%
Level 10 2000 100%
Level 11 4000 100%
Level 12 8000 100%
Level 13 20,000 150%
Level 14 30,000 50%
Level 15 40,000 33%


In 21 minutes, between the end of level 11 and the start of level 13 your big blind pass from 4,000 to 20,000. I find this to much pressure on the player who made it this far in the tourney...

Gide

Your right I'll need to slow it down there. But also keep in mind that I need to end this tourney at sometime because I don't think people want to play until 2am. Especially a new player who is playing in their first live tournament. It starts at around 5pm and there should be around 200 people playing. Thanks for your input.

AcesUp

Does this structure look better? Maybe make the 1k-2k level longer than 20 minutes? Or 10k in starting chips like the WSOP? I am open to any suggestions

25-25
25-50
50-100
75-150
100-200
150-300
300-600
400-800
500-1000
1,000-2,000
1,500-3,000
3,000-6,000
5,000-10,000
10,000-20,000
15,000-30,000
20,000-40,000

Gide

while you where doing your structure i did this one...
Start Time increase
Level 1 25-50 17:00
Level 2 50-100 17:20 100%
Level 3 75-150 17:40 50%
Level 4 100-200 18:00 33%
Level 5 150-300 18:20 50%
Level 6 250-500 18:40 67%
Level 7 500-1000 19:00 100%
Level 8 800-1600 19:20 60%
Level 9 1,200-2,400 19:40 50%
Level 10 2,000-4,000 20:00 67%
Level 11 3,000-6,000 20:20 50%
Level 12 5,000-10,000 20:40 67%
Level 13 7,500-15,000 21:00 50%
Level 14 10,000-20,000 21:20 33%
Level 15 15,000-30,000 21:40 50%
Level 16 20,000-40,000 22:00 33%

cole woods

i like the idea of starting with 25 / 25

AcesUp

Gide wrote:

while you where doing your structure i did this one...
Start Time increase
Level 1 25-50 17:00
Level 2 50-100 17:20 100%
Level 3 75-150 17:40 50%
Level 4 100-200 18:00 33%
Level 5 150-300 18:20 50%
Level 6 250-500 18:40 67%
Level 7 500-1000 19:00 100%
Level 8 800-1600 19:20 60%
Level 9 1,200-2,400 19:40 50%
Level 10 2,000-4,000 20:00 67%
Level 11 3,000-6,000 20:20 50%
Level 12 5,000-10,000 20:40 67%
Level 13 7,500-15,000 21:00 50%
Level 14 10,000-20,000 21:20 33%
Level 15 15,000-30,000 21:40 50%
Level 16 20,000-40,000 22:00 33%

I like it, and I could color up the $100s after level 9, I think I'll go with your structure for now.

AcesUp

cole woods wrote:

i like the idea of starting with 25 / 25

Maybe I'll make the 25-50 level longer so people can have some time to get used to the tournament. That would be pretty much the same as having 2 levels of 25-25, 25-50. It depends if the starting stacks are over 3k then I'll go with 25-50 for sure. But at 3k or less I'll probably put in the 25-25 or longer 25-50.

Gide

Glad you liked it (less remorse for losing the time at work)
you can go to http://www.homepokertourney.com/large-tournaments.htm

I remember seeing a formula for findind the time a tourney will probably end... couldn't find it this time
you'll have 200 players x T3,000 = T600,000 total
Final table of 10 = average stack of T60,000 should happend around level 11-13
Final four = average stack of 150,00 should happend around level 14-15

Gide

beanie42

Gide wrote:

I remember seeing a formula for findind the time a tourney will probably end... couldn't find it this time

The time-prediction formula is at http://www.homepokertourney.com/blinds.htm (halfway down)

pilsner

any date forr this tourny yet.

AcesUp

pilsner wrote:

any date forr this tourny yet.

sorry no date yet