please critique my blind schedule`

[smartalecc5]

I will have about 6-9 guys starting with a thousand chips.

The number are in this order: Minutes per round, small/big blind, ante

30 min, 5/10, -
30 min, 10/20, -
30 min, 20/40 -
30 min, 25/50, 10
30 min, 40/80, 10
30 min, 50/100, 20
30 min, 75/150, 30
30 min, 100/200, 50

How long would you expect this to take? What would you think of this if you had to follow it in a tournament?

[Giant Peach]

Hey that is a good blind schedule I use almost the same one but i sometimes make them go up every about 20 minutes. A tournament like this with 6-9 people takes about 1-2 hours.

[TwinTowers]

Those are fairly passive blinds. I run a weekly T1000 NL toournament every Sunday. About the same amount of players, sometimes more but usually around 10.

Our tourneys last about 3 hours.
Blinds:
10-20 30min
15-30 25min
break (color up reds)
25-50 20min
50-100
100-200
break
150-300
200-400
300-600
400-800 (game usaully done by now)
500-1000

Using your small blind structure, our game would last too long.We have a solid group of players, and not too many early "all-in" bets are made anymore.

If your group can get through an 8 man tourney in 2-3 hours with those blinds, than they are just fine. I tweked my blinds many times to suit our game. Just as our games have evolved, so have our blinds.

I stay away from antes all together and recommend most home games do the same. Its too confusing for the newer player, espically for the new dealer. It also keeps those smaller denomination chips in play, which also can slow the game down. With your ante structure, you're keeping the $5 chip in the entire game. Its nearly pointless when the blinds climb to 100/200, even 25/50 should be free of the red chip.

[tubalkain]

Lose the antes and shorten the first three levels to 20 minutes... that should make it more home-y.

[Scotty O]

I use foxwoods strucure and vary the buy in T1000-T3000 depending how long I want it to last. The link below is what I use for 15-40 person tourney. I will not use Antes if we have a single table.

Just remember, use a structure that allows for good play, and won't last forever. What I have found is that the tourney ends at 1-5% (BB/Total Chips in play) I used to think 10% was the rule, but is much less based on some of the data I a have seen ( http://www.geocities.com/thepokerfanatic/file.xls )
Good Luck

http://www.geocities.com/thepokerfanatic/homerules.html

[aaronjacobg]

you have been PMing me and i'm not sure if its working soo... whatever