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I'm trying to talk the owner of the card room in downtown Sacramento into spreading SnG's on one table (he only has 7, soon to be 8) and he doesn't know anything about them, but when I pointed out that the juice was collected up front and they should complete in 1-1.5 hours his eyes lit up. I think he also liked the idea of being able to say NL available here.

There are, however, several problems running a live SnG and I was wondering if anyone knew of it being done on a regular basis anywhere?

- How to control the level where dealers are getting pushed every 30 minutes.
- What would be better, timed rounds, or counted.
- What blind structure?
- What stacks?
- How to deal with the fact that color ups are impractical.
- How big to make the buyin and how much juice (they make ~$80/hr, so the juice has to be $120+). I was thinking $100+$15 with the standard Party type payout of $500/$300/$200. The floor could convert the buyins into $100 chips and put them in the dealers tray.

What else?

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I'm near KC. Ameristar has advertised SNGs. I went there on a Friday and the boss said they hadn't played one for about a month. When they do, they will have a sign up list and as soon as there are 10 people they go. I estimate the poker room has about 20 tables so they can keep one open for this situation.

Rules:
Levels change every 15 minutes, with a 5 minute break every 4 levels. Blind change from level to level:

BB: 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 400, 600, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000

Start with 1000 chips. Buyins range from 50+5 to 400+40 (10% buyin fee). Payout 50, 30, 20. I would estimate, by the blind structure, that a game could last no longer than 2 hours.

I thought rake would have to be more than that to be profitable, but they set these rules. I ended up playing NL cash games that day, but hope to go back earlier to see if there if I can get interers in a STT. I assume these tourneys will be pretty soft (most people I meet there don't play STTs online).