Polochris
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What should my blind schedule be?
Starting stacks.
15x-$1
12x-$5
9x-$25
7x-$100
2x-$500
T2000 starting Stack.
Thanks guys!
Starting stacks.
15x-$1
12x-$5
9x-$25
7x-$100
2x-$500
T2000 starting Stack.
Thanks guys!
I'll take a stab at it..
I'd say add 3 more T5's and ditch the T1 if you want to start with T2000.
5-10
5-15
10-20
15-30
20-40
30-60
40-80--remove 5T
50-100
75-150
100-200
150-300 -- remove 25T
200-400
300-600
400-800
600-1200
800-1600
1000-2000
There are others much better than I at coming up with structures. But this one should be serviceable.
IMO, 2,000 starting stacks using T1 is too deep, as it was already said in a different thread... So I'd ditch the 2 x T500 in your starting stack and go with 1,000 starting stack, using the T500 later on for color-ups. 250 BB is plenty, so I'd start my blinds and 2 / 4, to avoid the 100% increase if you start at 1 / 2. I'd do something like this:
* Different colors denote when you'd color-up lowest denom on the table.
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Yeah, I understand now. Just curious, as I am new to hosting tournaments with this amount of people. We used to just increase the blinds once someone was knocked out lol. What would be the worst case scenario if I used this blind schedule for a T2000 starting stack?
The only thing that would happen if you do is that your tourney would last a longer and the first couple of levels would be kinda meaningless... Other than that, if you want to start with 500BB, it's fine... Now, if you only increase blinds when people are eliminated, your tourney might last for days! LOL!!!
Well, look at this this way.....
First level, 2/4 blinds (with T2000 stacks). You flop a straight flush, and get even more lucky when one guy turns a full-house and another guy rivers an ace-high flush, but everybody slow-plays until the river. You win a $45 pot, or a net increase of about 1.5% of your stack. What a waste of a fantastic hand.....
That's what is meant by 'kinda meaningless." It's rather pointless to have blinds that aren't meaningful in relation to the stack sizes. It's a whole lot of card playin' for nuttin'.
I favor the idea of "warm-up" levels for inexperienced groups. If your group hasn't killed you yet for the "blinds go up on elimination" idea then I think we can safely rule out high levels of experience.
For a group like this I would use...
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Big jumps early on... as BG noted, these levels are largely meaningless from a poker maneuvering standpoint, but are crucial to getting some cards in with friends with little risk. When you get into the meat and potatoes (after 1st color-up) the blinds ramp down. After the 2nd color-up, blinds become acceptably smaller jumps. This is where players start dropping like flies, and those that have been collecting chips start playing the real poker.
It's definitely a better set-up. T1s as the lowest denom in a tournament is ineffective, as your lowest 2 denoms are being removed at a 5:1 ratio. Still, I understand the love of a chip and wanting to put it in play for the sake of the chip.
Let us know how it went. I expect anything that ditches the "level-up on elimination" structure will be stunning to the players.