Looking for a blind system for my annual tourney
 

Playing an annual tourney with 8 guys total (including myself). 200 to enter, all goes to winner. I am looking for a somewhat slow blind system and a starting chip amount so that this little SnG lasts for about 6 or so hours. Thanks for all replies.

Re: Looking for a blind system for my annual tourney
 

Start everyone with 50K in chips:

20 (100's)=2000
6 (500's)=3000
5 (1000's)=5000
2 (5000's)=10K
3 (10,000's)=30K

Each level could be 15-20 mins. Blinds as follows:

100/200
200/400
300/600
400/800
BREAK 10 mins
500/1000
600/1200
700/1400
800/1600
BREAK 10 mins
1000/2000
1500/3000
2000/4000
2500/5000
BREAK 10 mins
3000/6000
4000/8000
5000/10K
6000/12K
BREAK 10 min
8000/16K
10K/20K
15K/30K
20K/40K

Re: Looking for a blind system for my annual tourney
 

That one looks pretty good. Thanks.

Re: Looking for a blind system for my annual tourney
 

Re: Looking for a blind system for my annual tourney
 

I host slower tourney's, too. You can start with 10K, 25K, 50K, etc. Just as long as the starting blinds are within a reasonable percentage, i.e. 100-200, 200-400, etc. 20 or 30 minutes. You will see real poker being played.

Re: Looking for a blind system for my annual tourney
 

Playing only a single table tourney, it's easy to compute when the tourney will end. a 10-man tourney will end when the big blind is roughly equal to the initial bank.

(meaning if you start everyone off w/ $1K your tourney will end when the BB is $800-1000)

That being said, you can work backwards, just make the level before the 6 hour mark = to the initial buy in.

I would suggest 30 minute levels, giving you 10-11 levels before you hit 6 hours. For example start w/ 1000

10-20
20-40
30-60
40-80
50-100
75-750
100-200
150-300
200-400
300-600
400-800
500-1000

you mention that you will only have 8 players meaning it will probably end in the 300-600 or 400-800 level. plus the slow blinds in the beginning will offer a lot of play for everyone.

Re: Looking for a blind system for my annual tourney
 

Thanks for all the help guys. Still thinkin it over though. I think I want around 2k starting chips instead of 1k or 5k..and I am pretty sure we will only be playing with 4 different colored chips. How would I change things around if I did this?

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Thanks for all the help guys. Still thinkin it over though. I think I want around 2k starting chips instead of 1k or 5k..and I am pretty sure we will only be playing with 4 different colored chips. How would I change things around if I did this?

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T2000 - all rounds 30 minutes

Each player starts with
20 x $25
10 x $100
1 x $500

Blinds
25/25
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
200/400
300/600
400/800
600/1200
800/1600
1000/2000
1500/3000
2000/4000

Re: Looking for a blind system for my annual tourney
 

Like i said in my earlier post, it doesn't matter if the initial bank is 100, 1000 or 1,000,000. The only thing that will remain constant is that the tourney will end around the time the big blind is equal to 1/10th of the chips in play.

therefore a 10 man tourney will end when the BB is around equal to the original bank.

four colors is fine, and you probably can get away with three to start... assuming you have enough chips you will have no problem.

8 players, a bank of $2K, should probably look something like this:

Color A $25: 16
Color B $100: 6
Color C $500: 2
Color D $1000: 0

If you want to start the blinds lower than 25-25, then i suggest using color A as $5 or $10 chips, color b as $25, color c as $100, and color d as $500 instead.

good luck

Re: Looking for a blind system for my annual tourney
 

Start with 50k in chips? How long do you want this to last, 12 hours for 8 guys?

Re: Looking for a blind system for my annual tourney
 

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Thanks for all the help guys. Still thinkin it over though. I think I want around 2k starting chips instead of 1k or 5k..and I am pretty sure we will only be playing with 4 different colored chips. How would I change things around if I did this?

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T2000 - all rounds 30 minutes

Each player starts with
20 x $25
10 x $100
1 x $500

Blinds
25/25
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
200/400
300/600
400/800
600/1200
800/1600
1000/2000
1500/3000
2000/4000

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PERFECT!!!
I use the same, with antes though depending on level

http://www.geocities.com/thepokerfan...ouserules.html

Re: Looking for a blind system for my annual tourney
 

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Start with 50k in chips? How long do you want this to last, 12 hours for 8 guys?

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I run a 50K chip game with up to 16 players. Usually lasts 4-6 hours depending on how things go. Not sure where you got the 12 hour figure from.

Re: Looking for a blind system for my annual tourney
 

I was pushing it there a bit. even 6 hours is long for a 16 person. I would rather see it be about 2 hours for that many people.

The last tourney we ran we had 40 players and it lasted 6 1/2 hours and that was long. The mistake I made was a 30 minute time interval. 20 minutes is perfect with an ante after the 1st hour.

My main question is why start with 50k in chips?