Blind structure for 1 table freezeout?

[warewulf]

I'm hosting a 1 table freezout tournament. I got the following blind structure from a Howard Lederer book. I do 1500 in chips, 20 minute rounds. It's supposed to last around 3 hours.

Blinds:
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
200/400
300/600
500/1000
1000/2000
1500/3000
2000/4000

Just wondering what others are using and suggest.

[MrBrightside]

www.homepokertourney.com has some good info. check them out. Also, http://www.thetournamentdirector.net/ is a neat peace of free sofwtare if you have a laptop to bring. The guys in our group really like it.

Structure looks ok for 10 people. That's 15,000 chips. At that, it should take slightly less than 3 hours. The site above uses the 10% of chips in play on blinds/antes rule (the tourney usually ends at this level). Ours usually end at that level or before, so that would put yours ending more like 2.5 hours.

[warewulf]

Yeah, 2.5 hours is perfect. Funny you should mention tournament director -- I dug an old laptop out of the closet for this purpose and set it up last weekend! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[stevea]

What exactly does freezeout mean?

Is it a time limit on the tourney, and whoever has the most chips when time runs out wins?

THx,

[warewulf]

It's a tournament where there's no rebuys or add ons.


Alternate definition -- A tournament played inside a freezer. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[stevea]

Hmm...the tourney style that I play and I didn't even know the correct name.
Thx,

[MrBrightside]

first time I brought it in, I endured a few geek jokes, etc., but now everyone wouldn't play without it. They like being able to see how much time is left at a level, what the next level is, and what the avg. chip stack is.

It adds a real professional touch, plus it records everyone's finish and I use those to post results to our little web page.

[warewulf]

Yup, I've seen it at other games. It's great to not have people constantly asking how long is left in the level and what the blinds are...

[Brain]

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It's a tournament where there's no rebuys or add ons.


Alternate definition -- A tournament played inside a freezer. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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That would feel pretty good right about now!