Tourney How to shorten a tournament? (2 Viewers)

[DaneWoj]

Our poker league has gotten issues with tournaments running later than ideally wanted. Our events last right now about 7 hours of play time and 1 hour of breaks. We currently use 20 min levels throughout with rebuys for the first 6 levels. We use this rebuy period to pump up to prize pool. Our league sends players to the WSOP every year. In 2 weeks we send 9 players to the monster stack. our structure right now is posted to this thread. We use the Big blind ante as well. Our events vary is starting stacks, but after rebuy/addons is near 20000. We get close to 28-34 at players each event.

One person thought this next season we should shorten the levels(from 20 mins to 15 mins) once the FT gets set. Our thoughts about this is that you get nearly the same amount of hands played when you are 3/4 handed as you do when full ring.

Another side to this idea is to shorten the levels UNTIL you get to the FT(15 mins pre FT, 20 mins @ FT). Thoughts on this were that its better to play longer levels when the money is at stake. Also being a league, when more points are awarded.

I see both sides but would like some more thoughts. Whats the best way to do this if we weren't to pull out any levels of the structure?

 

[v1pe]

You could remove the 250/500 and 1200/2400 levels. As an added benefit you would be able to chip up the T25s and T100s 1-2 levels eariler.

Otherwise I'm a fan of longer levels at the start and sped up levels towards the end, especially when short handed. My tourneys personally run with 20 min levels until the rebuy peroid is over, then 15 min levels afterwards.

You could also go with 17 minute levels.. No reason they have to be in 5 min increments.

 

[trigs]

Less rebuy levels and slight increase in buy-in?

 

[Mojo1312]

200,000 chips in play with re-buys through level 6 and add-ons??? How short stacked is your tournament and are add-ons a part of every game?? (I don't see where or how they would fit in otherwise, unless they are offered at the start.)

One solution is to eliminate the 100% jump between level one and two by adding a 25/75 level and cutting the re-buy period to 90 minutes while reducing the time of the levels to 18 minutes. You should be able to shave 20 to 25 minutes off your tournament by incorporating the above changes. (Curious, do you have many players re-buying into the tournament for less than 20 BB's?) Reducing the length of your breaks as the tournament progresses will also shorten the tournament.

T5000 (or 6000) with 18 minute levels:

25/50
25/75
50/100
75/150
100/200
Break 15 minutes
150/300
200/400
250/500
300/600
400/800
Break 15 minutes
Race off T25's
500/1000
600/1200
800/1600
1000/2000
1200/2400
Break 10 minutes
Race of T100's
1500/3000
2000/4000
2500/5000
3000/6000
4000/8000*** should end here
Break 5 minutes
Race off T500's
5000/10000
6000/12000
8000/16000

Tournament time with breaks, under 7 hours.

 

[DaneWoj]

This is our current structure sheet. We do have plenty of ppl rebuying with 20 bigs and try to spin it up. This sheet is our main event which we do 8 levels of rebuys.

On average each player is in for 1 buyin 1 rebuy and a 5k add on.

I do like the idea of 17-18 min levels. After 20+ levels those couple minutes add up.