Hi community-
I'm currently in the process of setting up the first tournament of our new poker league and I'm struggling with the starting stack size, blinds, etc. My current tournament set is a T25 base but it's 1000 chips so we'll be using that. I'm struggling with a few issues/questions. Most of which I'm sure were already covered in the forum somewhere, but I can't find answers specific to my situation. So any help/advice is appreciated:
Details
1. There will be two tables. 10-15 Players. They want to play for up to 6 hours
2. As I said, I'm planning on doing a T25-base game with T25,000 (12/12/5/6/3) starting stacks. We are also using the 25-base because we play a bit of "Name that tune" using my poker playlist during the opening stages of the tournament. The player that guesses song title and artist gets a T25 chip "from the bank". Just for a bit of fun!! As you can imagine this stops when we're at about the 300/600 blinds level.
3. I floated the idea of using bounties last year and the players seem to like the idea of walking away with something even if they're not in the money- so we're using bounties. Buy-in is $20 ($5 of which goes to the bounty).
4. Players also like a rebuy/re-entry option if knocked out early.-So we're using unlimited (T25k) re-buys up to 3 hours into the tournament for $15 ($5 of which goes to new bounty)
5. Sometime later in the season, players would like to introduce add-ons to get the purse a little bigger.
Questions/issues
1. I know a 25-base makes it a "super deep" T25,000 stack. So is there any other way to make tournament last 6 hours with out having a "super/mega/hyper deep" stacks but keeping the T25 base?
2. Because they are such deep stacks and all the other variables (re-buys, bounties, and later, add-ons, etc.) I'm struggling to figure out how many chips will be in play at the end of the tournament and what the purse will look like. So I can't begin to calculate blinds, duration of levels, etc.
As I said, any advice for my clarity/sanity is appreciated!
Thanks,
Mike
I'm currently in the process of setting up the first tournament of our new poker league and I'm struggling with the starting stack size, blinds, etc. My current tournament set is a T25 base but it's 1000 chips so we'll be using that. I'm struggling with a few issues/questions. Most of which I'm sure were already covered in the forum somewhere, but I can't find answers specific to my situation. So any help/advice is appreciated:
Details
1. There will be two tables. 10-15 Players. They want to play for up to 6 hours
2. As I said, I'm planning on doing a T25-base game with T25,000 (12/12/5/6/3) starting stacks. We are also using the 25-base because we play a bit of "Name that tune" using my poker playlist during the opening stages of the tournament. The player that guesses song title and artist gets a T25 chip "from the bank". Just for a bit of fun!! As you can imagine this stops when we're at about the 300/600 blinds level.
3. I floated the idea of using bounties last year and the players seem to like the idea of walking away with something even if they're not in the money- so we're using bounties. Buy-in is $20 ($5 of which goes to the bounty).
4. Players also like a rebuy/re-entry option if knocked out early.-So we're using unlimited (T25k) re-buys up to 3 hours into the tournament for $15 ($5 of which goes to new bounty)
5. Sometime later in the season, players would like to introduce add-ons to get the purse a little bigger.
Questions/issues
1. I know a 25-base makes it a "super deep" T25,000 stack. So is there any other way to make tournament last 6 hours with out having a "super/mega/hyper deep" stacks but keeping the T25 base?
2. Because they are such deep stacks and all the other variables (re-buys, bounties, and later, add-ons, etc.) I'm struggling to figure out how many chips will be in play at the end of the tournament and what the purse will look like. So I can't begin to calculate blinds, duration of levels, etc.
As I said, any advice for my clarity/sanity is appreciated!
Thanks,
Mike