Home Game Sit&Go Tournament - Blind Structure

[Steve LoGrasso]

What's the best way to set up a single 9 man table. Say we want to give each player $2500 in chips and start the blinds at 25/50. What the best way to increase them from there? Please advise

Thx.

[texasrattlers]

Any way you want. In my home game we decide before each game -- it makes for good (or inane) debate before we start to play. But it usually looks something like:

starting chips 4000
20 minute rounds
Blinds : 25/50, 50/100, 100/200, 200/400, 300/600, 400/800, 500/1000, 1000/2000 ...

[housenuts]

although i'm not a big fan of our structure it's quick and easy.

we will usually start with 30 chips. start the blinds at 1/2 and increase them every half hour. 2/4, 3/6. 4/8. we usually only have 4-5 players and they go quickly. often we decide to double the blinds earlier when it gets to heads up.

i'm not a big fan of this structure as it makes things more of a crapshoot but it keeps everyone involved. if someone goes out early they usually don't have to wait too long to get back in.

when we play a bigger game we will start with more chips. but if it's just $5 or $10 we just go with it.

[texasrattlers]

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often we decide to double the blinds earlier when it gets to heads up.

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I think when heads up doubling the blinds or halving the round time would be a good idea for sites like Stars with slower blind structures. Heads up play w/ low blinds bores me.