Tourney T50-base: Crazy Idea? (1 Viewer)

swemon

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Pondering a new (potential) set, I stumbled on a threads discussing a T200 chip. After initially dismissing it, I now quite like the concept. But, to me, makes more sense to combine with a T50.

The breakdown would look like:
50-200-1000-5000.
12-12-7-X for T10K.

The blinds work out quite nice, too. With 20min levels, there’s a natural break every hour (until much later on). Based on 10 players, colour ups with T1000, and rebuys with T5K.

50/100
50/150
100/200
BREAK
150/300
200/400
300/600
BREAK - 6 x T1000 to chip up T50.
400/800
600/1200
800/1600
BREAK - 24 x T1000 to chip up T200.
1000/2000
1000/3000… etc.

I’ll preface saying I’m European, so quarters don’t come as natural to me. Everything else considered - does this work?
 
I think this will play fine as long as your players are receptive to the unconventional values. It’s basically a T5 structure multiplied by 10.
 
I haven’t been burnt at the stake (yet), that’s a good thing at least. Might get some getting used to and it’s unconventional, but that’s kinda the beauty behind the idea.
 
Seems a little silly to me but then again no tournament structures are all that logical when compared to each other anyway. For example a t500 base will always go 500-1000-5000 but a t5 base would NEVER go 5-10-50 even though it’s the same thing. A t25 base goes 25-100-500 but no one would ever do 250-500-1000. So do what makes you happy.
 
Seems to make perfect sense in your case, given the denominations of the Swedish Krona -- just from my quick Google search, i see 20, 50, 100, 200, 500.... So a jump to 50 to 200 seems to be more standard.

Not sure players in the US would adjust, or it would take some getting used to -- the US does have $50 bills, (no $200s) but even $50s are not used a lot and some poker players consider them bad luck.

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Not necessarily. Nothing wrong with a T500-base set that uses 500-2000-10000 denoms.
That’s part of my logic here:
50(0)-200(0)-1000(0)-5000(0)
One less zero to deal with.
 
That’s part of my logic here:
50(0)-200(0)-1000(0)-5000(0)
One less zero to deal with.
T5 base is what I use, even less 0s to deal with. My entire stt set has only 4 denoms. 5, 25, 100, 500. Everyone gets 10/10/7/3. The 10 5s and 10 25s color up neatly into 3 100s. Rebuys are 5x500. End of the game plays out with just 100s and 500s.
 
Even though its not "standard" and even a touch odd by US norms, I like it. The denoms flow much better than the more typical which jump from 500 to 1000 with all the others being 4x-5x jumps. You could even though in the 25k high denoms and keep it a smooth adjustment.
 
T5 base is what I use, even less 0s to deal with. My entire stt set has only 4 denoms. 5, 25, 100, 500. Everyone gets 10/10/7/3. The 10 5s and 10 25s color up neatly into 3 100s. Rebuys are 5x500. End of the game plays out with just 100s and 500s.
True. But, there’s two denoms that don’t end in a zero. Do you still find calculations easy to make on the fly?
 

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