Very 1st Home game. Help needed....

[Pondy]

I'm about to host and play in my very first home game. I got a load of chips a while ago, but have never used them, so thought it's about time.

So I have a few questions:-

1. I have the following chip amounts :-

1's = 100
5's = 100
10's = 100
25's = 50
50's = 50
100's = 50
500's = 25
1000's = 25

Whats the best amount to split between 6,7,8 or 9 players ?

2. The games will be holdem (fixed and no limit) tourneys, what's the best way to up the blinds - by time or hands played (every 10 hands). If time, how long between each level ?

Any other advise will be much appreciated.

[Irons]

no specific answers, but check out homepokertourney.com if you haven't already.

[TheCroShow]

i second the motion for homepokertourney! excellent website. if you need a timer for blind levels, also check out www.pokertimer.com

[CrazyN8]

yeah, I third (??) that. Also, this is a nice donationware clock -> here

probably easiest to figure for 10 players in your tourney and then see what is left.

I haven`t actually visited that website, but from my own personal experience with my home games, I prefer to up the blinds not on a timer but with number of hands played, usually around 10-12.

Reason being is I find there`s a lot of chat at the table with home games and if your on a timer before you`ll know it the blinds would have been raised with very little action having gone on in that round.

[ky70]

You don't have that much flexibility because of your limited chips in each denom but here's a T500 structure that I came up with for up to 10 players:
$5 x 10 = 50
10 x 10 = 100
25 x 4 = 100
50 x 5 = 250

Totals 29 chips = $500

Blinds
Level Minutes Small Big
1 20 $5 $5
2 20 5 10
3 20 10 20
Break 5 min Remove 5s
4 20 20 40
5 20 40 80
6 20 50 100
Break 5 min Remove 10s & 25s
7 20 100 200
8 20 150 300

This set-up would last aprrx. 2 - 3 hours.

[kodonnell]

Here is how I would do it and it would allow for up to 10 players at 1000 each. Blinds start at 5/10. You also are saving up your big chips for color ups. IMHO, I do not like when there are more than 4 or 5 different color chips in play at any time.

1's = 100
5's = 100 (5)=25
10's = 100 (10)=100
25's = 50 (5)=125
50's = 50 (5)=250
100's = 50 (5)=500
500's = 25
1000's = 25