Comments on Tourny Structure, please

[Duece Three]

I've been asked to run a tourny for a friend.

Expecting 50 people, wants it to last 5-6 hours.
Total Chips that I have:
300 ($5)
500 ($25)
400 ($100)
100 ($500)

I'm thinking of the following breakdown:
(He want's everyone to start with $2000)
8 x $25
8 x $100
2 x $500

Blinds (30 minutes)

Round/SB/BB/Ante
1/$25/$50
2/$50/$100
3/$75/$150
4/$100/$200
5/$200/$400/$25
6/$300/$600/$50
7/$400/$800/$75
8/$500/$1,000/$100
9/$750/$1,500/$150
10/$1,000/$2,000/$200
11/$1,500/$3,000/$300
12/$2,000/$4,000/$400

Problems?
-Only starting with 40BB
-No chips for color ups.
-I'm not convinced that the blinds are going up fast enough for the tourny to end "on time", but I also don't want it to turn into a crap shoot. (I think I'm close?)
-???

*First time for a tourny this big for me to run
*First time I've tried introducing antes (how to they look?)

I've been to the Home Poker Tournament website many times, and have put together a couple of "successful" tournaments with 20 or less people...

I know that I see what seems to amount to several of these home tourny questions asked each day...I hate to repost, but I think this might be a lttle different?

Anyway, thanks in advance for any responses/suggestions.

-Jeremy

[TomHimself]

You can make it a T1500 tourney and just use PokerStars structure and that should work. Although I do suggest you buy more chips like Faux Clays at 6cents a chip, they sound jsut like real clay.


edit- oops you dont have enough 5's for T1500. so i think ur strucutre is fine but i would start with a 25/25 level

[Scotty O]

U need to have chips to color up or you will have to make sure players keep their chips nicely stacked for easy counting. As for structure, I use the Foxwoods structure.

Go to their website or try mine for a blind structure and som consolidated rules under (homerules.html link on left) THEPOKERFANATIC (http://www.geocities.com/thepokerfanatic/)

Rule of Thumb (When the blinds reach 5-10% of total chip count, the tourney will almost be over.

Example: 50 player @ T2000 = 100,000. BB @ 5000-10,000 the tourney is almost over

Good luck


[ QUOTE ]
I've been asked to run a tourny for a friend.

Expecting 50 people, wants it to last 5-6 hours.
Total Chips that I have:
300 ($5)
500 ($25)
400 ($100)
100 ($500)

I'm thinking of the following breakdown:
(He want's everyone to start with $2000)
8 x $25
8 x $100
2 x $500

Blinds (30 minutes)

Round/SB/BB/Ante
1/$25/$50
2/$50/$100
3/$75/$150
4/$100/$200
5/$200/$400/$25
6/$300/$600/$50
7/$400/$800/$75
8/$500/$1,000/$100
9/$750/$1,500/$150
10/$1,000/$2,000/$200
11/$1,500/$3,000/$300
12/$2,000/$4,000/$400

Problems?
-Only starting with 40BB
-No chips for color ups.
-I'm not convinced that the blinds are going up fast enough for the tourny to end "on time", but I also don't want it to turn into a crap shoot. (I think I'm close?)
-???

*First time for a tourny this big for me to run
*First time I've tried introducing antes (how to they look?)

I've been to the Home Poker Tournament website many times, and have put together a couple of "successful" tournaments with 20 or less people...

I know that I see what seems to amount to several of these home tourny questions asked each day...I hate to repost, but I think this might be a lttle different?

Anyway, thanks in advance for any responses/suggestions.

-Jeremy

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[Quicksilvre]

That jump between level 4 to level 5 is huge. At a nine-player table, pots are going to go from T300 straight to T825. I'd add a 200/400/no ante level in between.

Everything else looks great. I would make level 8 600/1200/100 and level 9 800/1600/200, but since you have no chips for coloring up, it really makes no difference. If you do get more chips, this would allow you to color up after level 7 instead of after level 9, which'll tighten up the chips stacks enough to keep the table from getting too crowded.

[jacki]

Kill the antes. I've found that they're a pain in the arse at home games.