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[Richard Cranium]

Paging all the tourney blind experts...

I'm running my annual charity tourney tomorrow and I'm thinking of tinkering a bit with the blinds I used last year to add in the 25-75 level and get rid of the jump from 25-50 to 50-100.

But what I've come up with slows down the entire thing quite a bit after that. Looking for some feedback.

Starting stacks are 10k in chips, no rebuys or add-ons. I'm expecting about 14-18 players. Wish I could get 24... but alas...

If the tourney lasts somewhere between 4-6 hours I'm good. Anywhere inside of that.

Blinds I used from last year:

Level | Duration | Sm | Big
1 20 25 50
2 20 50 100
3 20 75 150
10 min break
4 20 100 200
5 20 150 300
6 20 200 400
15 min break - REMOVE GREEN
7 20 300 600
8 20 400 800
9 20 500 1000
10 min break
10 20 600 1200
11 20 800 1600
12 20 1000 2000
10 min break - REMOVE BLACK
13 18 1500 3000
14 18 2000 4000
15 18 2500 5000
16 15 3000 6000
17 15 4000 8000
18 15 5000 10000

New blinds idea:

Level | Duration | Sm | Big
1 20 25 50
2 20 25 75
3 20 50 100
10 min break
4 20 75 150
5 20 100 200
6 20 150 300
15 min break - REMOVE GREEN
7 20 200 400
8 20 300 600
9 20 400 800
10 min break
10 20 500 1000
11 20 600 1200
12 20 700 1400
10 min break
13 18 800 1600
14 18 1000 2000
15 18 1200 2400
10 min break - REMOVE BLACK
16 15 1500 3000
17 15 2000 4000
18 15 2500 5000
19 10 3000 6000
20 10 4000 8000

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[Frogzilla]

Kill level 12 for sure. Just go from 6/12 to 8/16

 

[Richard Cranium]

If I kill that level, I could speed things up at that point and get rid of the blacks.

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10 20 500 1000
11 20 600 1200
12 20 800 1600
10 min break - Remove black
13 20 1000 2000
14 20 1500 3000
15 20 2000 4000
10 min break
16 15 2500 5000
17 15 3000 6000
18 15 4000 8000
19 10 5000 10,000
20 10 6000 12,000

 

[Legend5555]

How long are the levels?

IMO you could kill levels 12 and 18 at minimum. Possibly even 15. But it kind of just depends on level length.

 

[Blaster]

Based on 17 entries, the 4K/8K level should be the end, plus/minus a level or so ......
Add up the level times + break times for total run time ....
You may need to move down to 15min levels a bit earlier ..

 

[DoubleEagle]

I'm not a fan of tourneys with level lengths that change.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I don’t normally do that but I tried it last year because at that point we are down to 2-3 players.

 

[justsomedude]

I think your new structure is almost perfect. I just agree with @Frogzilla and recommend removing Level 12. I would also recommend adding a 250/500 level.

Then you can space out the first 2 breaks at 4-level intervals.

The following is one of my personal favorite structures. It took me a few years of tweaking to arrive at this one...

With 21-24 entries it will run about 5hrs 45min.

Anything less than that and it will be shorter.

 

[1A25R]

I'll would keep you structure of last year but keep all levels to 20 min.
With the 20 BB theory the tournament will end by lvl14, so 4:20 of play and 5:10h including breaks

 

[Blind Joe]

For consistency get rid of levels 10, 12 and 18, then merge levels 14 & 15 to 1100/2200

 

[JustinInMN]

Really I think blind structures should boil down to two patterns.

Pattern 1) 2-4, 3-6, 4-8, 6-12, 8-16
Pattern 2) 2-4, 3-6, 4-8, 6-12, 8-16, 10-20, 12-24

Multiply each chip by the above, return to start every time all remaining levels can be denominated in the next chip. Optionally add levels of 1-1, 1-2, 2-3 to the start of the tournament.

Low chip: Levels
(Pattern 1)
[Optional 25-25, 25-50, 50-75]
25: 50-100, 75-150, 100-200, 150-300
100: 200-400, 300-600, 400-800, 600-1200, 800-1600
500: 1000-2000, 1500-3000
1000: 2k-4k, 3k-6k, 4k-8k, 6k-12k, 8k-16k

(Pattern 2)
25: 50-100, 75-150, 100-200, 150-300
100: 200-400, 300-600, 400-800, 600-1200, 800-1600, 1000-2000, 1200-2400
500: 1500-3000
1000: 4k-8k, 6k-12k, 8k-16k, 10k-20k, 12k-24k

I think pattern one is more efficient with color ups. Pattern two is a slower structure (wsop style).

But I think these patterns really give good results every time using familiar numbers.