Blind Structure: Use all chips?

[Craig_W]

I am the proud owner of a complete set of Egyptians, and had my first tourney yesterday, but I ran into a problem.

I want to use ALL of the chips (because I am proud of them) excluding the .25/$1. (those are reserved for the side game)

Dilema: How do I incorporate the $5-5k chips? In yesterdays tourney (12 of us) each got $3500 worth of chips, and I used an agressive blind schedule, but still the plaques were not viable.

My total chip breakdown is: $5-400, $25-350, $100-200, $500- 150, $1k-85, $5k-35.

Any suggestions please?

Thanks Craig

[jtr]

Well, this may seem obvious, but who not start with about 30,000 in chips each (no rebuys right?), and sort out a really aggressive blind schedule that gets you from 5/10 to 15,000 / 30,000 within the time remaining before the Earth is consumed by the exploding sun.

[jojobinks]

exactly. you used 42k in chips in your tournament, even though you have 175k in 5k chips alone. you bought 'em, use 'em!

[spicychili]

Any kind of structure where you want to use a 5 dollar chip and a 5000 dollar chip starting out, the blind schedule would be so crazy that after the first round you would be removing the 5 dollar chips and by the third round you would be removing the 25 dollar chips.

This is based on 12 people. I would start everyone out with 3600 in chips.

What each player will get
20 - 5's
20 - 25's
10 - 100's
2 - 500's
1 - 1000's

What you will need for 12 people
240 - 5's
240 - 25's
120 - 100's
24 - 500's
12 - 1000's

Blind Schedule (from pokerstars) I raise mine every 25 minutes
10 - 20
15 - 30
25 - 50
50 - 100
75 - 150
100 - 200
200 - 400
300 - 600
400 - 800
600 - 1200
1000 - 2000
1500 - 3000
2000 - 4000
3000 - 6000
4000 - 8000
6000 - 12000
10000 - 20000
15000 - 30000
20000 - 40000

I like this structure since it allows for cheap play the first couple rounds then starts to get aggressive. I run this in my home game every other week with 9 people and the games usually last about 4 to 5 hours. I start people with 2600 in chips and color up when needed.

If you want to get all the chips out I would get more people. Still start with 3600, and of course you will need to adjust your chips that you give everyone but it is possible.

[Craig_W]

Well, thanks a bunch guys, guess it is so simple--got em use em. And it really does serve a purpose to have alot of chips out- the players that really don't know what they are doing don't get thrashed till the later rounds. It lets them play longer, and the good players get a look at how the others play (or bluff!)

Thanks again, Craig