Blind Structure for 100 players

[FMMonty]

Any replies to this would be highly appreciated

A tournament with exactly 100 players. Blind structure without Ante's, the tournament should last no longer than 6 hours.

We could start with 3,000 OR 5,000 chips.

What would be the best structure?

Any help would be fantastic!

Monty

[trevorwc]

Start with 5k chips...

25-50
50-100
100-200
200-400
500-1000
1000-2000
2000-4000
3000-6000
4000-8000
6000-12000
8000-16000
10000-20000

These would be 30 minute rounds.

Basically, the rule of thumb is that the tournament will end when the two final players have an average stack of 10-20 big blinds. So at 100 players and 5k chips each, you're looking at 500k in play (250k each when heads up). That means it'll end when the big blind is somewhere between 12.5k and 25k

Hope this helps

[Bulldog]

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Start with 5k chips...

200-400
500-1000



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Ouch. Add a 300-600 in there.

[trevorwc]

Well, he's trying to get it done in no more than 6 hours - gotta run through it.

[Lottery Larry]

T5,000, 30 minute rounds
T25-50
50-100
100-200
200-400
400- 800
750- 1500
1200- 2400
2000-4000
3000- 6000
5000-10000
8000-16000
12000-24000

[trevorwc]

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T5,000, 30 minute rounds
T25-50
50-100
100-200
200-400
400- 800
750- 1500
1200- 2400
2000-4000
3000- 6000
5000-10000
8000-16000
12000-24000

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If you're going to go with this, make the 750-1500 round 800-1600, no point in holding onto the 25's for an extra 2 hours just for 1 round.

[SamIAm]

Does anybody else think it's silly that all of these numbers are divisible by 25? Why not make all the stacks smaller? Mmm, Division. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I guess sometimes people will want to raise in increments not necessarily divisible by the blinds, but you can start everybody with $1k instead of $5k.

I know, you got those $10k chips that you just GOTTA use. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
-Sam

[SamIAm]

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no point in holding onto the 25's for an extra 2 hours just for 1 round.

[/ QUOTE ]Oh, I forgot that we'd take away the smaller chips as soon as they're not needed for the blinds! In that case divide by 25; start with the blinds at 1/2!
-Sam

[Lottery Larry]

yes, that was dumb. Better this way though, to get away from the doubling

T25-50
50-100
100-200
200-400
400- 800
700- 1400
1200- 2400
2000-4000
3000- 6000
5000-10000
8000-16000
12000-24000

[Lottery Larry]

Weird that you look at it that way, since anything with two 0's behind it is divisible by 25.

Seems forced to make the lowest blinds different- 100:1 is a good start and doubling is typical. Besides, why add an extra chip in- reds- in if you don't need them?