Formula for designing tournaments?

[cianosheehan]

I was wondering if there was a trusted way of formulating the structure of a tournament, based on number of players, # of chips available, and duration of tournament etc. I saw that there is a PokerGenie available, but I dont want to purchase it. Does anyone know of a formula that could also do the job?
Regards
-Cian

[ddollevoet]

www.homepokertourney.com

[kodonnell]

Depending on how loose/tight your players play, typically a tournament will end when the big blind is 5-10% of the total chips in play. So if you have 10 players with 1000 starting chips each, you have 10,000 in chips in play. When the BB is somewhere around 500 to 1000, your tourney will end.

The homepokertourney.com site is a great resource and will describe this in more detail.

I hope this helps

[illini43]

A good way to keep track of a tournament is by using "The Tournament Director" computer program...

Just google for it...its cool.