CPS Chips in play-Knights of Columbus Charity Tournament (1 Viewer)

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So after a couple of years of not hosting a charity tournament, my Knights of Columbus Council finally had one for a 12 year old that suffered a brain aneurism in early August. I agreed to basically run it (which meant I wasn't going to play:()... someone had to bite the bullet. We started with T15K starting stacks with unlimited rebuys and add ons till the first break, there were some complaints about unlimited add ons after the tourney, but hey its charity, more money in the end. Used a @BGinGA approved blind structure that I stole from another thread somewhere (thanks Dave!), you should have heard the grumbles and attempted corrections to the level 1 jump to level 2 blinds (25/50 to 25/75). All the local VFW and Moose lodge tourney players said level 2 should be 50/100, of course these are the guys that were approached first to run it and declined.....good guys that will always help when asked, but don't like to be in charge of anything. That also meant @links_slayer 's CPS chips he raffled off last winter finally got put to use.

So finally some pRon:

starting stack:
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Action Shots:

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Final Table:
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Had 24 players with 26 rebuys/add ons totaling $1240 , also ran a 50/50 raffle on the side as well. Payout was 50% with the other 50% going to the family to help with medical expenses. Payout was $265, $175, $105, $55, and $20 (I know). In the end we will be giving the family a little over $700 from this event along with some other monies we have raised.
 
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Always nice to see money going to a good cause! I was at a church festival a few weekends ago and they were running a casino. Blackjack had modified rules that made it horrible so folks really weren't playing. The bulk of the money came from the poker table where they were running a 10% rake up to $6 per hand. The chips were absolutely embarrassing but they were at least custom for some semblance of security. I think in the end the blackjack tables brought in around $400 whereas the poker tables netted almost three times that.

Was this the 1,000 chip CPS set? What was your initial distro and how did the games progress in terms of color ups, making change, etc.
 
Our Knights council has a tourney every couple months through the winter. Comes out to about 4 or 5 tourneys a year. We make about the same amount while average 70-80 players. We do 70% payback. Before I was in this area the guys told me they would get 200+ players back in the poker boom. We have those same exact round plastic tables that are in your pictures.
I must say I'm jealous of your chips. We use light, cheap, plastic ones. The cards are used freebies from the local casino. All in all its a solid, easy fundraiser and I get to play poker for a good cause!
 
Charity poker can be a double edged sword. On the one hand it is nice to draw a large crowd to build the pots. On the other hand if you cast too wide a net you'll get dudes playing like it's a regular casino: constant angles and trying to take advantage of the volunteer dealers. Then in subsequent years you have fewer people coming because Poker Player Bob who only plays the annual church fundraiser and just wants to blow a couple hundred for a good cause with his fellow parishioners doesn't want to play with the loud-mouthed bare knuckle brawlers who are in it for the payola only.
 
Charity poker can be a double edged sword. On the one hand it is nice to draw a large crowd to build the pots. On the other hand if you cast too wide a net you'll get dudes playing like it's a regular casino: constant angles and trying to take advantage of the volunteer dealers. Then in subsequent years you have fewer people coming because Poker Player Bob who only plays the annual church fundraiser and just wants to blow a couple hundred for a good cause with his fellow parishioners doesn't want to play with the loud-mouthed bare knuckle brawlers who are in it for the payola only.
So true, it can be tough, we were running one for a school :Dand we did get less and less players.:(. but i think it was partially due to "poor" advertising... Adding a raffle or silent auction for other people to show up (not just poker players) might be the right way to go.
 
Was this the 1,000 chip CPS set? What was your initial distro and how did the games progress in terms of color ups, making change, etc.
Yes. and it was maxed for its breakdown....luckily I had another 1000 in the truck for emergency backup:)

For 20 players with 15K stacks:

8 x T25
8 x T100
6 x T500
6 x T1000
1 x T5000
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29 chips = T15K



Blind structure
lvl sb bb
L1 25 50
L2 25 75
L3 50 100
L4 75 150
L5 100 200
L6 150 300
remove T25 chips
L7 200 400
L8 300 600
L9 400 800
L10 600 1200
L11 800 1600
L12 1200 2400
remove T100 chips
L13 1500 3000
L14 2000 4000
L15 3000 6000
L16 4000 8000
L17 5000 10000
L18 7500 15000
remove T500/T1000 chips
L19 10000 20000
L20 15000 30000
L21 20000 40000
L22 30000 60000
L23 40000 80000
L24 50000 100000


Using 15-minute blind levels, a 20-player 15K event (or 10-player 30K event) will typically finish in less than 4.5 hours (L18) plus breaks. Add 1.5 hours for 20-minute levels. A 10-player 10K event with 20-minute levels will typically finish in less than 5 hours (L15) plus breaks.


Payout structure

Using ratios (up to 21:15:10:6:3:1) to determine payouts, paid to the top 20-25% of the field size (rounded up):

field - paid - ratio - percentages paid

2-5, 1, - 100%

6-9, 2, (3:1), 75%/25%

10-13, 3, (6:3:1), 60%/30%/10%

14-22, 4, (10:6:3:1), 50%/30%/15%/5%

23-27, 5, (15:10:6:3:1), 43%/28.5%/17%/8.5%/3% <-----------payout we used (5th didn't even get their buying back but we did it anyway)

28-30, 6, (21:15:10:6:3:1), 37.5%/26.5%/18%/10.5%/5.5%/2%

Percentages are applied to the available prize pool, rounded to the nearest $5.


ETA:

Started at 7pm and went until midnight with 24 players and 26 rebuy/ add ons. probably would've went later but both HU players shoved 2nd hand into HU i believe it was level 19. first break was about 30 min for food
 
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Charity poker can be a double edged sword. On the one hand it is nice to draw a large crowd to build the pots. On the other hand if you cast too wide a net you'll get dudes playing like it's a regular casino: constant angles and trying to take advantage of the volunteer dealers. Then in subsequent years you have fewer people coming because Poker Player Bob who only plays the annual church fundraiser and just wants to blow a couple hundred for a good cause with his fellow parishioners doesn't want to play with the loud-mouthed bare knuckle brawlers who are in it for the payola only.

Had one ringer show up and he was at a table with a couple of wives that have only played a couple of times. He quickly realized this was going to be pretty laxed, and helped out with that table a ton. I talked to him afterwards and he was very interested in coming back to future events, said he recently moved here form Indiana and really enjoyed himself, might even join the knights too.

We just rotated the deal like a home game.

Everyone that came\gave me their email, and I will send out a notification when we do the next one. We are hoping to do one a quarter
 
Had another tourney last night 24 players raised another $670 for charity. As usual @links_slayer raffled chips in play. @desjgn cards in play too. May play with blinds a little started at 6 and didn't end till after midnight.

Quad kings showed up
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Final table
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@Tommy I could find a use for some 54" round toppers too.......
 
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