Tourney Deep blind structure for friendly game (1 Viewer)

[Outkicked]

I am only one of three people I know that will actually go to a casino and play poker. I have come up with a friendly blind structure and starting chip stack that will make the person who only plays poker maybe once or twice a year feel like they aren’t throwing money away and can have a good time while drinking a few beers and seeing tons of flops. Depending on how long you want the tournament to last I have used starting stacks of $5k, $8k, and $10k usually buy in is $20-50 and blinds usually 25min or 30 min. I found that the $8k starting and 25min blinds work the best and lasts around 6-7 hours for a 3 table tournament.

Starting stack
(12) $25 chips =300
(12) $100 chips =1200
(7) $500 chips =3500
(3) $1000 chips=3000

Total=8000


Blind structure is:

25-50
50-100
75-150
(10 min break if needed)
100-200
150-300
200-400
(10 min break and race off 25 chips)
(I also close rebuys at this point if it’s a rebuy tournament)
300-600
400-800
500-1000
(10 min break)
600-1200
800-1600
1000-2000
(10 min break race off 100 chips introduce 5k chips to larger stacks)
1500-3000
2000-4000
2500-3000 (optional level)
(10 min break)
3000-6000
4000-8000
5000-10000
6000-12000
8000-16000
10000-20000
Etc...

The point of this structure is to allow slow structure with the 75-100 and 150-300 levels added in, this is especially good for rebuys since the person who rarely plays poker will be throwing chips at about 85% of the pots also makes for a fun day, I use this for Hockey Day MN and get around 3 tables let me know thoughts cheers!

 

[BGinGA]

1) Consider adding a 25/75 level, to avoid doubling the blinds between L1 and L2..... or add more starting chips to compensate for the 100% increase from 25/50 to 50/100. All of your other blind increases range from 25% to 50%, which is fine.

2) A better starting stack configuration would be:

12 x T25
12 x T100
5 x T500
4 x T1000

or

12 x T25
12 x T100
3 x T500
5 x T1000

since you don't need as many T500 chips, and the T1000 quickly becomes a workhorse chip in the early and middle levels. For that reason, you should be using T1000 chips to color-up the T25 and T100 chips, to ensure there are enough of them in play when needed later.

Otherwise, everything looks fine. Personally, I'd like to see 200bb stacks (T10000) used, at a minimum. We run a very similar structure with T20000 starting stacks.

 

[Outkicked]

1) Consider adding a 25/75 level, to avoid doubling the blinds between L1 and L2..... or add more starting chips to compensate for the 100% increase from 25/50 to 50/100. All of your other blind increases range from 25% to 50%, which is fine.

2) A better starting stack configuration would be:

12 x T25
12 x T100
5 x T500
4 x T1000

or

12 x T25
12 x T100
3 x T500
5 x T1000

since you don't need as many T500 chips, and the T1000 quickly becomes a workhorse chip in the early and middle levels. For that reason, you should be using T1000 chips to color-up the T25 and T100 chips, to ensure there are enough of them in play when needed later.

Otherwise, everything looks fine. Personally, I'd like to see 200bb stacks (T10000) used, at a minimum. We run a very similar structure with T20000 starting stacks.

I like it! I’ll run it past the guys and see what they think usually if the game goes longer than 7 hours they get impatient and want to head to the bars on Friday and Saturday nights, like I said most only play once or twice a year and what is a “normal” tournament structure for most poker players is a Marathon for them. Thanks for the feedback cheers!

 

[BGinGA]

Removing these three short-step levels keeps the progression of blind level increases consistent, yet cuts off some of the total time (and would help address the impatience issue):

500/1000
2500/5000
5000/10000

 

[Outkicked]

I am only one of three people I know that will actually go to a casino and play poker. I have come up with a friendly blind structure and starting chip stack that will make the person who only plays poker maybe once or twice a year feel like they aren’t throwing money away and can have a good time while drinking a few beers and seeing tons of flops. Depending on how long you want the tournament to last I have used starting stacks of $5k, $8k, and $10k usually buy in is $20-50 and blinds usually 25min or 30 min. I found that the $8k starting and 25min blinds work the best and lasts around 6-7 hours for a 3 table tournament.

Starting stack
(12) $25 chips =300
(12) $100 chips =1200
(7) $500 chips =3500
(3) $1000 chips=3000

Total=8000


Blind structure is:

25-50
50-100
75-150
(10 min break if needed)
100-200
150-300
200-400
(10 min break and race off 25 chips)
(I also close rebuys at this point if it’s a rebuy tournament)
300-600
400-800
500-1000
(10 min break)
600-1200
800-1600
1000-2000
(10 min break race off 100 chips introduce 5k chips to larger stacks)
1500-3000
2000-4000
2500-5000 (optional level)
(10 min break)
3000-6000
4000-8000
5000-10000
6000-12000
8000-16000
10000-20000
Etc...

The point of this structure is to allow slow structure with the 75-100 and 150-300 levels added in, this is especially good for rebuys since the person who rarely plays poker will be throwing chips at about 85% of the pots also makes for a fun day, I use this for Hockey Day MN and get around 3 tables let me know thoughts cheers!