Tourney $1M starting stack Tourney structure/chip count Advice (1 Viewer)

I am trying to justify (or talk myself out of) the OWPS group buy currently in design. I have been building a Horseshoe Cleveland .05-$20 Cash and $25 - $5k Tourney sets that are already in pretty good shape. So I don't really need another set but this is the sickness.

One idea I did have for fun is a high denomination tourney set with the 43MM hybrids in the group buy, probably the Mayfair Club design. If so then I think a $1M starting stack wold be fun and very different while not actually being a crazy amount of chips for a 6-10 person tournament game. I essentially used a T1,000 standard set up and added three zeros on the end.

If you have the time let me know what you think of this or if I am just being silly, you won't hurt my feelings. Any thoughts or jokes are greatly appreciated.

Chips:

Chip Value x Number of Chips = Total value
T 5000 x 200 = 1,000,000
T 25000 x 150 = 3,750,000
T 100000 x 100 = 10,000,000
T 500000 x 50 = 25,000,000

total 500 chips = 39,750,000

Chips per player starting:

T 5000 x 15 = 75,000
T 25000 x 13 = 325,000
T 100000 x 6 = 600,000
T 500000 x 0 = 0

total 34 chips = 1,000,000 starting stack per player

chips remaining for spares and color-ups:

Question - Can I safely reduce any of these numbers to save on purchase cost?

T 5000 x 50 = 250,000
T 25000 x 20 = 500,000
T 100000 x 40 = 4,000,000
T 500000 x 50 = 25,000,000

Structure:

Blind schedule for a tournament with 6-10 people
4 hours + 2 breaks with 20-minute rounds
Starting stack 1,000,000 chips, no re-buys

Level / Small Blind / Big Blind / Round Start Time
1 / 5,000 / 10,000 / +0:00
2 / 10,000 / 20,000 / +0:20
3 / 15,000 / 30,000 / +0:40
4 / 20,000 / 40,000 / +1:00
5 / 30,000 / 60,000 / +1:20

Break / Remove T5000 Chips

6 / 40,000 / 80,000 / +1:40
7 / 50,000 / 100,000 / +2:00
8 / 60,000 / 120,000 / +2:20
9 / 100,000 / 200,000 / +2:40
10 / 150,000 / 300,000 / +3:00

Break / Remove T25000 Chips

11 / 200,000 / 400,000 / +3:20
12 / 300,000 / 600,000 / +3:40
13 / 400,000 / 800,000 / +4:00
14 / 500,000 / 1,000,000 / +4:20
15 / 700,000 / 1,400,000 / +4:40
16 / 1,000,000 / 2,000,000 / +5:00

pedrofisk said:

Chips per player starting:

T 5000 x 15 = 75,000
T 25000 x 13 = 325,000
T 100000 x 6 = 600,000
T 500000 x 0 = 0

total 34 chips = 1,000,000 starting stack per player

chips remaining for spares and color-ups:

Question - Can I safely reduce any of these numbers to save on purchase cost?

T 5000 x 50 = 250,000
T 25000 x 20 = 500,000
T 100000 x 40 = 4,000,000
T 500000 x 50 = 25,000,000

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Here are my thoughts:

Since you are coloring up T5000 you don't need extras of that one.
For a 10 player tourney you need 150 T5000 to start, and enough T25,000 to cover them, so you need 30 T25,000 extra
40 extra T100,000 is on target to cover the 160 T25,000 you will have in play after coloring up the T5000
After that the T500,000 is just up to you - do you mind having T100,000 in play after you get to 500,000/1,000,000 blinds? By then the play is probably down to a few players and moving so fast that it may not be worth taking the time to colorup the T100,000. 50 extra T500,000 is overkill though, you'd have 2/3rd as much in T500,000 as in your original bank.

To summarize the minimum needed:

T 5000 x 0 (maybe 20 just to round out the rack and have enough for an extra player or two)
T 25000 x 30
T 100000 x 40
T 500000 x 0? (maybe 10)
Total of 100 extras chips if you so the maybes above.

Check my maff though, I'm notoriously wrong

Thanks @ekricket that all makes sense and your math does add up. You are right about coloring up the T100K, does not really make a lot of sense.

T5000 x 10
T25K x 10 plus 2 for chip up
T100K x 7 plus 3 for chip up ( if you want to run bigger games)
T500K your add-on or rebuy