What's a good setup for a tourney?

[Jack Bando]

NLHE-300 chips (100 Red, 100 White, 100 Blue)

Here's how we do it most of the time

Everyone gets 50/60 (50 for 6 people, 60 for 5)
Blinds 1-2, 2-4,3-6,4-8,5-10 (Goes up every elimination)

Personally, this setup is terrible. If you don't win a big hand withing 20 minutes, 1-2 people are gone and the blinds are already hitting you hard.

I'm the kind of player who believes in playing good hands and not gambling with bottom pair. I'm usually against guys with such phrases as "It's all luck." "I wish I'd kept my 7-3 I'd have had a house on the river!" "Pocket pairs NEVER win" "Why you raising? You haven't seen the flop."

So does anyone know of a better setup with that many chips that allows more game play and less crap-shooting?

[Hal 2000]

Whites=$1
Reds=$5
Blues=$10

Give everybody ~$100 in chips and do that blind structure...

[stevea]

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steve
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[CancerMan]

You will probably want to have the blinds raised on a time basis, or something more when it reaches heads up. So that heads up doesn't go on forever.

[HamJam]

Try maybe whites=5, reds=20 and blue=100. 16 whites, 16 reds, and 11 blues each makes 1500 chips. With this structure you can follow the format of most online sites in their SNG's and have the blinds go 10/20, 15/30, 25/50, 50/100 and so on. It should allow you to win very often if you're playing with players who like to gamb000000l.

[TN_POKER_MAN]

raise blinds based on time basis and don't allow folks to "think" too long.

try a ring game instead of a tournament