Tourney Structure and Chip Count for Tournament - 10 Player (1 Viewer)

[nezara]

I recently acquired a few chips and am trying to figure out if they could be put to good use in a tournament format. Looking to support 10 players for ~3 hours with not a whole lot of rebuys. I think I need to bolster the set some, but wanted to see how many chips of each type I should be shooting for. Here's the breakdown that I have to work with so far:

$1,000 Chips - 200x
$5,000 Chips - 135x
$10,000 Chips - 40x
$25,000 Chips - 20x

My big questions are:
- Are the 10K chips useful at all? I know generally a bigger step up is good, but maybe with the lack of 25K chips they could fill the gap? They also look nice so I'd love to find a way to make them work.
- How many 25K chips would I need to make this work?
- I also have some $500 chips, but I don't see a great way to make those useful in this format. If I should be using multiple low denomination chips in this format let me know!

Was thinking of a starting stack like:

10x - 1,000
10x - 5,000
4x - 10,000
2x - 25,000

Total starting stack - 150,000

Structure:
1k / 2k - 20 min
1k / 3k - 20 min
2k / 5k - 20 min
---Break and change 1k to 5k
5k / 10k - 20 min
10K / 20K - 20 min
15k / 25k - 20 min
--- Break, leave everything out there - 3 colors with the 10K's doesn't seem so bad.
25k / 50K - 20 min
50k / 100K - 20 min
100K/200K - Should end here


If I were able to add to the bank and only using these denominations (The higher the denomination the tougher to add), I was thinking:
60x 10Ks - Use these for rebuy's, coloring up the 1K's, and change starting to 8x 5k & 5x 10k
30x 25Ks - Use these for rebuy's.

 

[MrCatPants]

You'll want to reserve those higher value chips for coloring up later in the tourney. I wouldn't include them in the starting stacks.

 

[nezara]

Ah, you are suggesting reduce the starting stack to maybe 100K and do something like this:

10x - 1,000
10x - 5,000
4x - 10,000

Total starting stack - 100,000

Structure:
1k / 2k - 20 min
1k / 3k - 20 min
2k / 5k - 20 min
---Break and change 1k and some 5K's to 25K
5k / 10k - 20 min
10K / 20K - 20 min
15k / 25k - 20 min
--- Break, leave everything out there
25k / 50K - 20 min
50k / 100K- Should end here

 

[MrCatPants]

Basically, yes. Though there's many others on this forum that are much more scientific about this kind of thing than me.

 

[BGinGA]

I recently acquired a few chips and am trying to figure out if they could be put to good use in a tournament format. Looking to support 10 players for ~3 hours with not a whole lot of rebuys. I think I need to bolster the set some, but wanted to see how many chips of each type I should be shooting for. Here's the breakdown that I have to work with so far:

$1,000 Chips - 200x
$5,000 Chips - 135x
$10,000 Chips - 40x
$25,000 Chips - 20x

My big questions are:
- Are the 10K chips useful at all? I know generally a bigger step up is good, but maybe with the lack of 25K chips they could fill the gap? They also look nice so I'd love to find a way to make them work.
- How many 25K chips would I need to make this work?
- I also have some $500 chips, but I don't see a great way to make those useful in this format. If I should be using multiple low denomination chips in this format let me know!

Was thinking of a starting stack like:

10x - 1,000
10x - 5,000
4x - 10,000
2x - 25,000

Total starting stack - 150,000

Structure:
1k / 2k - 20 min
1k / 3k - 20 min
2k / 5k - 20 min
---Break and change 1k to 5k
5k / 10k - 20 min
10K / 20K - 20 min
15k / 25k - 20 min
--- Break, leave everything out there - 3 colors with the 10K's doesn't seem so bad.
25k / 50K - 20 min
50k / 100K - 20 min
100K/200K - Should end here


If I were able to add to the bank and only using these denominations (The higher the denomination the tougher to add), I was thinking:
60x 10Ks - Use these for rebuy's, coloring up the 1K's, and change starting to 8x 5k & 5x 10k
30x 25Ks - Use these for rebuy's.

Do you have 100x T500 chips?

 

[nezara]

Yes

 

[nezara]

Do you have 100x T500 chips?

Any thoughts on what I should do master chipper?

 

[BGinGA]

If you have 100x T500 chips in the set, I like this particular format a lot, and it can be tailored to fit a 3-hour time frame:

T150K starting stacks:
10 x T500
10 x T1000
9 x T5000
4 x T10000
2 x T25000
---------------
35 chips = T150000

Alternately, you can drop the T10K chips and go with T100K stacks (10/10/7/2), and use the T10K chips for up to four re-buys. In either case, use the spare T5000 chips to color-up the T500 and T1000 chips (30 total required).

The following blind structure will typically run right at 3 hours using 20 minute blind levels with 10 players:

lvl sb bb
L1 500 1000
L2 1000 2000
L3 1500 3000
L4 2500 5000
remove T500 chips
L5 4000 8000
L6 6000 12000
remove T1000 chips
L7 10000 20000
L8 15000 30000
L9 25000 50000 *** EOT
L10 40000 80000
L11 60000 120000
L12 100000 200000

After L2, all blind increases range between 50% and 67%, averaging 63% overall. It's a much smoother progression with less dramatic jumps, still finishing in 3 hours but without the 100% increases that really drive short-stack all-ins.

I don't think you need any additional chips at all. (y) :thumbsup:

 

[nezara]

Perfect! Thanks @BGinGA! I'll probably try to grab a few more high denomination chips to support rebuys, but I think this will work out well. Here's what those chip stacks look like: