Tourney Blinds for a 25/50 Tournament (1 Viewer)

[allforcharity]

8/8/4/7 = 270 base chips for 10 people, 15 rebuys possible with 30x T5000, bringing to 300 chips
8/8/8/5 = 290 base chips for 10 people, only 5 rebuys possible with 10x T500, bringing to 300 chips, not practical
12/12/5/6 = 350 base chips for 10 people, 25 rebuys possible with 50 x T5000 bringing to 400 chips
I don't necessarily see a case for 500 chips for a single table of 10.

 

[BGinGA]

The most efficient, versatile, and still playable single table tournament T25-base set breakdown (with 25-chip increment purchase restriction) is 400 chips (10 x 12/12/5/6/x stacks):

125 x T25 (5 extras)
125 x T100 (5 extras)
50 x T500 (0 extras)
75 x T1000 (15 extras, used for color-ups)
25 x T5000

15 x T1000 are used to color-up T25 (3) and T100 (12) chips. 5 x T5000 are used for T500 color-ups (if needed), leaving 20 extras for re-buys or larger starting stacks. Only 10 total chips (5 x T25, 5 x T100) are not needed or used.

Set can support T5000, T7500, T10000, T15000, or T20000 starting stacks, which translates to 10-player tournaments starting with 50 to 400 big blinds, pending blind structure used.

 

[TheArchitect]

These last two answers are vey helpful, especially BGinGA and the detailed use of the 400 set - thanks!

 

[Polochris]

Here's my go to structure:

Starting Stacks
T15,000 in chips
(12 x 25 / 12 x 100 / 5 x 500 / 6 x1,000 / 1 x 5k)
Easily make this a 10K structure by ditching the 5k chip in the starting stack.

Blind Levels
20 Minutes

Blind Schedule
25 / 50
50 / 100
75 / 150
100 / 200
150 / 300
10 Minute Break (Color-Up T25’s)
200 / 400
300 / 600
400 / 800
600 / 1,200
800 / 1,600
60 Minute Dinner Break (Color-Up T100’s)
1,000 / 2,000
1,500 / 3,000
2,000 / 4,000
3,000 / 6,000
4,000 / 8,000
6,000 / 12,000
8,000 / 16,000
10,000 / 20,000

I love this. How long would a tournament last for 10 people, plus a few re-buys?

THanks,

 

[Lancew09]

Here's my go to structure:

Starting Stacks
T15,000 in chips
(12 x 25 / 12 x 100 / 5 x 500 / 6 x1,000 / 1 x 5k)
Easily make this a 10K structure by ditching the 5k chip in the starting stack.

Blind Levels
20 Minutes

Blind Schedule
25 / 50
50 / 100
75 / 150
100 / 200
150 / 300
10 Minute Break (Color-Up T25’s)
200 / 400
300 / 600
400 / 800
600 / 1,200
800 / 1,600
60 Minute Dinner Break (Color-Up T100’s)
1,000 / 2,000
1,500 / 3,000
2,000 / 4,000
3,000 / 6,000
4,000 / 8,000
6,000 / 12,000
8,000 / 16,000
10,000 / 20,000

How many table & about how many hours does this run? I'm working on a new structure, this is literally exactly what I have except the 60 minute dinner break. I'm looking for about 5-6 max tournament at 3 tables, 30 player max. Is your poker play about that long?

 

[Trihonda]

We typically start around 6:30p and the tourney is done around 11:30p. (5 hours) This is with 17min levels. So you should be fine.

The format above is my MTTD I only do a dinner break for the MTTD. That has 20 min levels. We start at 3pm and go until 10:30p (with an hour for dinner). So 6.5 hours.

Modify as you wish.

 

[Darson]

Sometimes I despair - this Friday, the guys bitched about having too many 25s on the table. Then, after colour up, the same guys bitched that we had 800/1600 blinds. They said that it should have been 750/1500... until I pointed out that we had just removed all the 25s.

I was using 16/16/4/6 for the first time - I usually use 12/12/5/6 as that's the max my sets can do with 12 players until my Matsui WPS set arrived. I may switch to 12/17/4/6 next time...

 

[Mr Winberg]

the guys bitched about having too many 25s on the table.

My experience is that the players who complain about too many chips don't know how to stack them. Even if every player would have 40 T25s each, that's just two stacks.

I was a bit worried about having too many T25s when I changed from my old set (using 12/17/4/6) to my milanos using 20/20/15. So I added a section on my tournament flyers (which I place on the tables) about the importance of tidy stacks of 20 (or 10) and how that can increase speed etc, and I also said a few words before we started. Low and behold, there was actually less issues with 20 T25s and players who stack'em properly than with 12 T25s and messy stacks.

the same guys bitched that we had 800/1600 blinds.

If someone complains about the 800/1600 level, I would not take his complaints seriously. That's like playing backgammon and complaining about using two dice instead of rolling one twice.

I may switch to 12/17/4/6

I think that's perfectly reasonable. T100 are used more than T25, and are less of a hassle than T25.

 

[Darson]

My experience is that the players who complain about too many chips don't know how to stack them. Even if every player would have 40 T25s each, that's just two stacks.

It was a little tongue in cheek - they guys who complained were both the big stacks so part of their complaining was due to the fact that they had so many higher denom chips in front of them as well. They're definitely not inexperienced in stacking, one is a former black jack dealer and the other has played the main event several times.

Having said that, since the starting blinds are 25/50 they're typically opening for a minimum of 200 so the 25s don't see much use other than in the blinds or limpers. Also, with a table of 9, there are 144x 25s on the table at the start which is probably too many. We also have lots of rebuys which are initially 10x 1000 and then 2x 5000 so there are a lot of 1000s on the table as the game goes on - by design, I LOVE the yellows!

 

[Mr Winberg]

I LOVE the yellows!

They do look spectacular!