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Hey everyone.
So my group has decided that every 2 weeks we'll play a different style of Hold em tournament.
We've decided to forego our old league/points/final game format.


This weekend we played a standard tournament with no rebuys.

Next game will be standard tournament with rebuys. Getting crazy isn't it? :eek:

But after that we'd like to try the following:

-knockout format
-bounty tourney
-ante tourney

My question to you: are there any other fun formats for us to try?
Including other types of poker.
Pot limit omaha tourney etc.


We play a 1 table, 10 person game for $30 buy-in. But if you have any ideas that are more fun at 2 or 3 tables please share as well, as we are actually a few groups of players that sometimes get together for multi table tourneys.

I think I already know where this thread is headed, lol.
To start off I don't think my group is ready yet for more than 2 types of poker in the same tournament.

Thanks for any ideas you can share. :)
 
How does that work in a live game?

I've done progressive bounty tournaments with $20 bounties. Players start with four $5 cash chips as their bounties. Each time you knock a player out, you pocket half their bounty (rounding up) and add the other half to your bounty.

I think I saw that Caesars has run some with a $50 bounty using $25 chips.
 
Oh man these are some great suggestions. I'm reading up on the ones I'm not familiar with. Very interesting. Thanks so much!
Will get most of these in our rotation. And then try and sell them on the others lol.
 
I've done progressive bounty tournaments with $20 bounties. Players start with four $5 cash chips as their bounties. Each time you knock a player out, you pocket half their bounty (rounding up) and add the other half to your bounty.

I think I saw that Caesars has run some with a $50 bounty using $25 chips.
Hmmm... finally a potential use for my snappers!
 
We had five players that stayed to the end of my last Holdem game, and we played pot limit Omaha. It’s funny watching people’s heads explode with the slight variation.
 
I've done progressive bounty tournaments with $20 bounties. Players start with four $5 cash chips as their bounties. Each time you knock a player out, you pocket half their bounty (rounding up) and add the other half to your bounty.

I think I saw that Caesars has run some with a $50 bounty using $25 chips.
I have been already contemplating a Jan PKO tournament in Jan of next year, what I would love to know is when you get their chips for the bounty, how do you distinguish what you keep and whats on your head. Its the same type of chip right? If they are all 5 dollar chips do you pocket the one half and keep the head bounty on table?
 
Yes, your current live bounty chips should always be out in front of your chip stack. In my example if you knock the first person out of the tournament, you pocket $10 (that’s instant winnings). Then you place the other two $5 chips on top of your starting 4, making your own bounty now $30 (six chips).

if later you knock someone out with a $65 bounty, you pocket (cash) $35 and add the other $30 to your own bounty, now raising it to $60.
 
Yes, your current live bounty should always be out in front of your chip stack. In my example if you knock the first person out of the tournament, you pocket $10 (that’s instant winnings). Then you place the other two $5 chips on top of your starting 4, making your own bounty now $30.

if later you knock someone out with a $65 bounty, you pocket (cash) $35 and and the other $30 to your own bounty, now raising it to $60.
Awesome, can you answer one more thing for me. As far as the structure would a normal 10k starting stack play good, or did they have special format for amount of chips, more, less, etc.
 
We play something different for every game in our league. Usually it's a T5k.

New Start NLHE, T5K
Pineapple T10K
WSOP ME Stack T30K
Bounties T5K
Limit Hold'Em T10K
Heads Up T3K, Double elimination bracket style
Show Me T5K NLHE with a "show me" chip
Rebuy & Add on T5K, free rebuy & add on included
Pot Limit Omaha T10K
Antes only T5K, no blinds, just antes
Texas Shootout T5K, 4 tables, top 2 from each table advances to final table
Multi-life - needs a fair bit of explaining, but essentially 3 short rounds of T3k, one final round of T10k with cummulative chips from first 3 rounds added on.
CHOP T10K, Crazy pineapple, Holdem, Omaha, Pineapple.
Invite A Friend NLHE T5K
Finale! Starting stack based on points and attending of the year, NLHE
 
How does that work in a live game?
I've played at a home game that used 2 chips per player for bounties. If you bust someone you immediately cash in one chip for real cash and pocket it. Other chip is added to your bounty.
I have been already contemplating a Jan PKO tournament in Jan of next year, what I would love to know is when you get their chips for the bounty, how do you distinguish what you keep and whats on your head. Its the same type of chip right? If they are all 5 dollar chips do you pocket the one half and keep the head bounty on table?
You can also cash out win bounties right away instead of pocketing them.
 
my group has decided that every 2 weeks we'll play a different style of Hold em tournament.

This weekend we played a standard tournament with no rebuys.

Next game will be standard tournament with rebuys. Getting crazy isn't it? :eek:

But after that we'd like to try the following:

-knockout format
-bounty tourney
-ante tourney
2-card Hold'em tournament options:
  • Freeze-out tournament
  • Re-buy tournament (single or multiple re-buys allowed)
  • Knock-out tournament (added bounties for knockouts)
  • Bounty tournament (no prize $$, just bounties for cash prizes)
  • Antes-only tournament (no blinds, antes only)
plus 3-card Hold'em variants:
  • Pineapple (discard 1 before flop)
  • Crazy Pineapple (discard 1 after flop)
  • Tahoe, or Lazy Pineapple (keep all three, but can only play 0, 1, or 2)
  • Super-Hold'em (keep all three, can play 0, 1, 2, or all 3)
  • Three-card Omaha (three hole cards, must use exactly two)
There is also two-hand hold'em -- 4 hole cards, split into two hands during pre-flop action. Some variations discard one hand after the flop, others allow both to play at showdown. Some play it as high/low split pot.
 
Antes-only tournament (no blinds, antes only)
What would the tournament structure look like for this? How do you estimate when the tournament will end?

In the few 7CS tourneys I’ve run when it gets short handed/heads up there is so little in antes going in that it doesn’t drive the action and the games drag on.
 
What would the tournament structure look like for this? How do you estimate when the tournament will end?

In the few 7CS tourneys I’ve run when it gets short handed/heads up there is so little in antes going in that it doesn’t drive the action and the games drag on.
It actually runs pretty much like a standard blinds tournament, both in action and duration. There is a minimum bet amount for each level, so there is no checking pre-flop or limping in for minuscule amounts.
 
You can also throw in a
Win the Button Tourney,
Big Blind Ante Tourney,
 
My players are mainly NLHE players and eventually PLO players.
My plan would be to run 5 (or 5 x 2) low buyin tournaments to educate them in the following games :
- Limit HE
- Limit Omaha-8
- Limit Stud
- Limit Razz
- Limit Stud-8

And then finish the series with a bigger buyin HORSE tournament.
 
plus 3-card Hold'em variants:
  • Pineapple (discard 1 before flop)
  • Crazy Pineapple (discard 1 after flop)
  • Tahoe, or Lazy Pineapple (keep all three, but can only play 0, 1, or 2)
  • Super-Hold'em (keep all three, can play 0, 1, 2, or all 3)
Does anyone have experience doing an entire tournament with any of these options? Looking at changing it up for our monthly group and like the idea of games that change things up enough that people have to think a little bit instead of just doing the same thing as every other time. I like the idea of trying either Tahoe or Super-Hold'em but would love to hear experiences from others who have tried anything similar.
 
I've ran Pineapple, Tahoe and Super-Hold'em tournaments in the past, along with several different combo tournaments that changed games at either each blind level increase or every hour (3 or 4 blind levels each game).
 
Does anyone have experience doing an entire tournament with any of these options? Looking at changing it up for our monthly group and like the idea of games that change things up enough that people have to think a little bit instead of just doing the same thing as every other time. I like the idea of trying either Tahoe or Super-Hold'em but would love to hear experiences from others who have tried anything similar.
Lazy Pineapple is the easiest and best imho. We have done full tournaments and they go faster bc more “made” hands. Only did it once.
 
Some great ideas in here that I will definitely add to our rotation. I have a similar setup in my home game. Players want NLHE only, but I like to keep things interesting with different tournament formats.

So far, we have done single re-entry (our standard game right now), unlimited re-entry, freezeout, and mystery bounty (we used a bingo machine to randomly select predetermined bounty amounts that ranged from $2 to $25). Other than mystery bounty, all of our games have a $5 bounty for a $20 buyin.

Our next game will be what PCFers tend to call a “reload” tournament. Everyone starts with 10K and one “rebuy” chip. If you bust within the rebuy period, you redeem the rebuy chip for a fresh stack of 10K; if you survive the rebuy period without busting, you redeem the rebuy chip for a 15K add on. All included in the single buy in.

I also have plans for a PKO tournament, a heads up tournament, and a quasi-shootout (top two from each of our 3 or 4 tables make the money and final table).
 
Also, question for ante-only tournaments: what would the usual min bet preflop be? (And I assume the min bet post flop would be the same?)
 
Ive run the 50/50 tournament before the main where 1/2 players get paid and that pays their main event entry. My guys liked that.
 
Also, question for ante-only tournaments: what would the usual min bet preflop be? (And I assume the min bet post flop would be the same?)
Our pre-flop rule for opening was bet/fold (no checking) with the individual-ante amount as the minimum bet. Same minimum bet post-flop but no restrictions. Edit: If I ran it today, I'd go with a 2x ante as the minimum bet (quarter-pot size pre-flop for eight players).

If using a table ante (posted by first-to-act after the button), I'd go with the smallest chip denom in play as the minimum bet size.
 
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