Tourney H.O.R.S.E tournament structure (1 Viewer)

[Pinball]

I would like to make a H.O.R.S.E. tournament.

8 Players Duration should be around 6-7 hours

Has anyone a good structure?

 

[Pinball]

	Ante	Bring In	Small Bet	Big Bet
Games:		Small Blind	Big Blind
FL Holdem		50​	100​			lvl 1
Omaha8		75​	150​			lvl 2
Razz	50​	50​	200​	400​		lvl 3
Stud Hi	50​	75​	250​	500​		lvl 4
Stud8	75​	100​	300​	600​		lvl 5
Race off 25 Chips
FL Holdem		200​	400​			lvl 6
Omaha8		300​	600​			lvl 7
Razz	100​	200​	500​	1’000​		lvl 8
Stud Hi	200​	200​	800​	1’600​		lvl 9
Stud8	200​	300​	1’000​	2’000​		lvl 10
FL Holdem		600​	1’200​			lvl 11
Omaha8		800​	1’600​			lvl 12
Race off 100 Chips
Razz	500​	500​	2’000​	4’000​		lvl 13
Stud Hi	700​	1’000​	3’000​	6’000​		lvl 14
Stud8	1’000​	1’000​	4’000​	8’000​		lvl 15
FL Holdem		2’000​	4’000​			lvl 16
Omaha8		2’500​	5’000​			lvl 17
Razz	1’500​	2’000​	6’000​	12’000​		lvl 18
Stud Hi	2’000​	2’000​	8’000​	16’000​		lvl 19
Stud8	2’000​	3’000​	10’000​	20’000​		lvl 20

 

[Pinball]

What do you think of the one above?

 

[APatHand]

The way (multi-table) HORSE tournaments are generally played is to have levels of a fixed length and play a fixed number of hands of each game - often equal to the maximum number of players which can be seated at a table, say 8.

Say, you decide on playing a 30 minute levels. You would play 8 hands of holdem, 8 hands of omaha, 8 hands of razz, etc. in order. When the 30 minutes elapses, you would just raise the blinds and antes and continue with the rotation of games.

If you want to add a variable, you could randomly select the order of games before the tournament begins, but you would maintain that order for the entire tournament.

Additionally, you could decide (before starting) that you will transition to NL Holdem for the final table or final two or three players.

 

[DoubleEagle]

Here is one we have used which I stole from a Circuit event a while back. Works very well. Set up just like @APatHand suggestted.

The way (multi-table) HORSE tournaments are generally played is to have levels of a fixed length and play a fixed number of hands of each game - often equal to the maximum number of players which can be seated at a table, say 8.

Say, you decide on playing a 30 minute levels. You would play 8 hands of holdem, 8 hands of omaha, 8 hands of razz, etc. in order. When the 30 minutes elapses, you would just raise the blinds and antes and continue with the rotation of games.

 

[APatHand]

I like randomizing the games before starting. That way you don't necessarily play all the stud games at the second (or third) level for their first go-through.

Going to NL at the end can help accelerate the end of the tourney.

 

[asian bino]

If you're going to have a HORSE event, have a HORSE event. DON'T change it to NLHE. If you want to accelerate the end, steepen the blind structure at that point. Horse events that end with NLHE are like fine meals that end with a Ring Ding.

 

[BGinGA]

Here is one we have used which I stole from a Circuit event a while back. Works very well. Set up just like @APatHand suggestted.



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Very similar to the structure we use. Color-ups after L5, L10, L13, and L18 as needed.

 

[DoubleEagle]

Unfortunately, we don’t have enough Horse players any more to have a tourney. My Horse players have been dying off.

 

[Pip17]

If you're going to have a HORSE event, have a HORSE event. DON'T change it to NLHE. If you want to accelerate the end, steepen the blind structure at that point. Horse events that end with NLHE are like fine meals that end with a Ring Ding.

MMmmMmMMm Riinng Diinnnnngssss

 

[jfmav]

Very old thread. Seeing if anyone can add to this. I want to run a horse tourney. We did this once and changed games at each blind level to keep tables on the same game. I understand that we should change games after an orbit has been completed. How do you do this with multi table? One table may be on a different game due to speed of players. That shouldn’t be too big of a deal except when you have to move a player for table balancing. You don’t want to move someone from a Stud Table back to Omaha. Or does it not matter that much? Any insight is appreciated.

 

[TheRealStephen12]

Very old thread. Seeing if anyone can add to this. I want to run a horse tourney. We did this once and changed games at each blind level to keep tables on the same game. I understand that we should change games after an orbit has been completed. How do you do this with multi table? One table may be on a different game due to speed of players. That shouldn’t be too big of a deal except when you have to move a player for table balancing. You don’t want to move someone from a Stud Table back to Omaha. Or does it not matter that much? Any insight is appreciated.

Never played HORSE, but said player just switches games.

 

[TheOffalo]

Very old thread. Seeing if anyone can add to this. I want to run a horse tourney. We did this once and changed games at each blind level to keep tables on the same game. I understand that we should change games after an orbit has been completed. How do you do this with multi table? One table may be on a different game due to speed of players. That shouldn’t be too big of a deal except when you have to move a player for table balancing. You don’t want to move someone from a Stud Table back to Omaha. Or does it not matter that much? Any insight is appreciated.

PokerStars online runs HORSE by changing the games at level changes. Since it's online, you get way more hands per hour, due to no shuffling/dealing time, so it works there. All the tables are synchronized and play the same game at the same time. I don't see a problem sticking with that IRL to make things easier, as long as everyone playing knows how it works.

 

[jfmav]

It all worked out. Turned out to only have 9 players, so we just played on one table with the understanding that if not enough people folded in the 7 card stud games, we would use a community card on 6th and/or 7th st. Actually never happened. We always had enough folders. Played a full orbit of each game until we got to below 8 people then stuck with 8 rounds per game. It was a lot of fun and much different strategy than the NL games.