Heads Up tournament, ladder style, double knockout interest?
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With all the talk about heads up matches lately, thinking about running a ladder style, double knockout tournament at the same place as the Royal Cup. Think there would be enough interest to run a 32 person event? Soliciting ideas, format thoughts, etc. Anyone run one of these before? Maybe similar to a ladder tennis tournament?
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To pull this off you need time to schedule 10 rounds. (with a possible 11th, because the winner of the losers bracket needs to beat the winner of the winner's bracket twice) I'd think you'd want to design the matches to last no longer than 45 minutes or so.
1,000 starting chips with 5 minute blinds might look like...
5-10
10-15
10-20
15-30
20-40
25-50
30-60
40-80
50-100
100-200 (force the end at this point)
Maybe add a few more chips to the semis and finals to give a little extra play.
www.8ball.org has some nice downloadable brackets for keeping track of who goes where.
Not to step on Zithal's toes, but I think the hand-based blind length from the Royal Cup worked well and was easy to manage.
I like Zithal's blind schedule and I may be interested in something like this as well.
How did the royal cup work?
I still prefer time based because for the most part you can get more than 10 hands in a level and it allows more play. I found the blinds to be really high after only 20 minutes of play that it wasn't a poker game.
Why were you still playing after 20 minutes? Seriously I'm in I'd prefer 10 hands or 15 hand blind schedule for heads up. Timed blinds work well for larger but heads up if you really need a 10 second shot clock to prevent someone from slowing the game down to much if you go that route. On line I rarely play heads up for more than 20 minutes except on stars. On average at pacific with 15 hand blind ups it's 11 minutes. I realize most people playing this won't be the pacific/party donks.
Flint we barely scratched the 200 - 400 blind level in our heads up match. Meaning we got about 30 to 35 hands in before it ended.
Here was the blinds for the Royal
started with 5000 in chips
All levels were 10 hands in length
25 50
50 100
100 200
200 400
300 600 Capped.
I felt timing blinds would be a problem logistically with clocks. Not timing them would allow people to start when they had a chance. Mind you the heads up portion could have ran a bit smoother and will in the future but I think # of hands is the way to go. I did set it at 10 hands as I wanted it to be a bit more active as it was the last event. Given that this event would solely be a HU Event I would bump that to 15 to allow a bit more play if needed.
stp
Here is how Red Hot ran their heads up tournament in December. All players started at the same time for each round with 4,000 starting chips. Blinds were at 25/50, 50/100, 100/200, 300/600, etc. and went up every 10 minutes. The 64-player, single elimination event began play around 7 PM and it was around 11 PM when I went out as the bubble boy in 9th place, leaving 8 players for the final three rounds.
Pirana Poker Tour also has heads up matches for all players eliminated in the MTT before it gets down to the final table. Starting chips are only 2,000 and the blind schedule is very similar as above. I am the only one on the leaderboard for both heads up and tournaments.
Now this blind structure soundsa bit ridiculous if it continues to double every 10 minutes.
I would prefer a $40-$60 buy-in if possible.
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Mike
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mike
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You can take Miranda and I off if it is the 29th. Out of town. We can make the first couple weekends in May.
Enjoy!!
$50 or so is cool. Let's get this thing scheduled.