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[PokerLegend]

Most popular tournament setup? And chip denominations? I have some dines chips that I use for a T10000 game. Was looking to see if there were any other popular settings would for Texas Holden and how many of each denomination would I need for a player table with rebuys

 

[allforcharity]

If your goal is to have a T10K tournament, then the most popular setup is still T25 base. with 25/50 starting blinds, for a 200BB setup. 12/12/5/6 seems to be the popular setup (T25 through T1000), with T5K for rebuys/topups. It is possible to get away with leaner stacks such as 8/8/4/7 with a downside of lots of change-making, but it usually depends on budget and what's available.

T100 base is getting more popular these days. One of the local groups that I have played with still prefer a T5 base set with T2K starting stacks.

 

[JustinInMN]

I think the base T25 with a T10000 starting stack became the "standard" because it is the "classic" WSOP main event format before they expanded to T30K in the early teens.

Casinos started replicating that for all of their tournaments. And then home games as well.

Base T100 is gaining popularity because of big-blind ante and greater acceptances of 1-1 chip, and 1-3 chip starting levels in use early in tournaments.

 

[JustinInMN]

If your goal is to have a T10K tournament, then the most popular setup is still T25 base. with 25/50 starting blinds, for a 200BB setup. 12/12/5/6 seems to be the popular setup (T25 through T1000), with T5K for rebuys/topups. It is possible to get away with leaner stacks such as 8/8/4/7 with a downside of lots of change-making, but it usually depends on budget and what's available.

T100 base is getting more popular these days. One of the local groups that I have played with still prefer a T5 base set with T2K starting stacks.

Lol, basically the same answer at the same time.

(But you provided the right starting stack details .)

 

[RumbleDumble]

I think the base T25 with a T10000 starting stack became the "standard" because it is the "classic" WSOP main event format before they expanded to T30K in the early teens.

Casinos started replicating that for all of their tournaments. And then home games as well.

Base T100 is gaining popularity because of big-blind ante and greater acceptances of 1-1 chip, and 1-3 chip starting levels in use early in tournaments.

What are the WSOP 30k starting stacks? Or what starting stacks do you prefer?

 

[upNdown]

I think the base T25 with a T10000 starting stack became the "standard" because it is the "classic" WSOP main event format before they expanded to T30K in the early teens.

Casinos started replicating that for all of their tournaments. And then home games as well.

Base T100 is gaining popularity because of big-blind ante and greater acceptances of 1-1 chip, and 1-3 chip starting levels in use early in tournaments.

Right. From my perspective, the T100 has been gaining popularity, has probably taken over in popularity and will be the new standard.

 

[JustinInMN]

Right. From my perspective, the T100 has been gaining popularity, has probably taken over in popularity and will be the new standard.

I agree this is coming. I think the stumbling block here on PCF is coming up with a good standard breakdown.

What are the WSOP 30k starting stacks? Or what starting stacks do you prefer?

I think 15/5/6/x is a good start, but that means losing half the chips on the first color up. Though the first color up is much deeper in a base T100 tournament, almost at the spot of the second color up if you compared side by side.

Maybe we just say 15/5/16 for T20K. And the "skinny" version would be 10/4/17 ?

There is still some work to be done here as far as breakdown goes, but for the reasons I said above, I can see T100 is gaining popularity, and again, related the changes made in the WSOP main event.

 

[legonick]

I'm experimenting with T100, and recommend you do too. The benefits are real!

 

[JustinInMN]

I'm experimenting with T100, and recommend you do too. The benefits are real!

What starting stacks do you like?

 

[upNdown]

I'm good with 10/4/7/1 for a 15K - I haven't hosted with it yet but I've played it dozens and dozens of times live and it works fine.

 

[legonick]

What starting stacks do you like?

I'm going to experiment with 15/7/10/1 = 33 chips total. Because moar chips is better, right? LOL. 10/4/7/1 = 22 chips.

I have not played with this yet in a 9-person format, damn you COVID-19!

But this is the plan when the numbers go down more:

$20000 starting stack, 9 people:
15 x  $100 (white) -->  $1500
7 x  $500 (green) -->  $3500
10 x $1000 (red)   --> $10000
1 x $5000 (black) -->  $5000

Blind raising, 8 or 9 players, targeting 3.5 hours (no breaks):
1  20  (0:20) 100  200
2  20  (0:40) 200  400
3  20  (1:00) 300  600
10 min. break
4  20  (1:20) 400  800
5  20  (1:40) 500  1K
6  20  (2:00) 600  1200
10 min. break
7  20  (2:20) 800  1600
8  20  (2:40) 1200 2400
10 min. break + color-up 100s & chip race
9  20  (3:00) 2K   4K
10 20  (3:20) 3K   6K
11 20  (3:40) 4K   8K
10 min. break + color-up 500s & chip race
12 20  (4:00) 6K   12K
13 20  (4:20) 10K  20K
14 20  (4:40) 15K  30K
10 min. break
15 20  (5:00) 25K  50K

 

[JustinInMN]

I mean my only pause with this is I see 22 chips and I'm like, that's pathetic. But then you factor in, there are like no color ups for 8 levels or so, if you added 100-100 and 100-300 to your structure (and for that matter 1600-3200), you could push the color up out even further. (which means fewer chips, but no removal for a much longer period of time, which I can see as a plus.) I'll be curious when consensus builds around good T100 stacks the same way 8/8/4/x and 12/12/5/x have become the standards for base T25.

 

[legonick]

I mean my only pause with this is I see 22 chips and I'm like, that's pathetic. But then you factor in, there are like no color ups for 8 levels or so, if you added 100-100 and 100-300 to your structure (and for that matter 1600-3200), you could push the color up out even further. (which means fewer chips, but no removal for a much longer period of time, which I can see as a plus.) I'll be curious when consensus builds around good T100 stacks the same way 8/8/4/x and 12/12/5/x have become the standards for base T25.

There was a good post somewhere on here discussing different T100-base starting stacks (in value & chip counts) and the merits of each. I believe @BGinGA had input. If I have time after work, I'll see if I can pull it up.

 

[JustinInMN]

There was a good post somewhere on here discussing different T100 starting stacks and the merits of each. I believe @BGinGA had input. If I have time after work, I'll see if I can pull it up.

I notoriously suck at the PCF search feature. But this is ringing a bell.

 

[upNdown]

There was a good post somewhere on here discussing different T100-base starting stacks (in value & chip counts) and the merits of each. I believe @BGinGA had input. If I have time after work, I'll see if I can pull it up.

Seems to me he said that the T1,000 is the most important chip for typical T100 structures and I believe he opined that 7-8 of them per stack, was the bare minimum. I agree with the first part, and maybe the second part too. I wouldn't want to try it with fewer than 7, but I think 7 works just fine. At lease it has in my experience.

 

[JustinInMN]

Used the google with a site parameter. I forget that works better than the native search function. Here's a couple of threads.

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/starting-stacks-breakdown-t100-base.52967/

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/t-100-base-breakdown-help.65304/

 

[legonick]

Nice! Thanks...that first link is the one I was thinking of.

 

[allforcharity]

Isn't using a T100 base with tourney structure of T30k or more the perfect excuse to use T100/T500/T2K/T10K progressions when designing customs? If so, I'm on board!