Tourney T5000 base tournament (5 Viewers)

[TikiTeddy]

I was looking at some old footage of WSOP main events high roller tournaments and thought the big denom chips would be a cool tournament to host. I searched but might have missed a T5000 base tournament starting stack and blind structure. Does anyone have a 20 minute blind structure?
Thanks

 

[TheRealStephen12]

Since modern chips come in denominations of 1-5-25-100-500, in multiples of thousands, millions, etc, you could look up other T5 structures and multiply by a thousand if you don't like the one below. With 20 minute levels, you should be finished in around 5 hours plus breaks for a single table, or about 5.5 hours with 2 tables (subtract half an hour if you play a freezeout).

T1M Starting Stack
5K/5K
5K/10K
5K/15K
10K/20K
Break (End Rebuys)
15K/30K
20K/40K
30K/60K
40K/80K
Break - Color Up 5Ks
50K/100K
75K/150K
100K/200K
150K/300K
Break - Color Up 25Ks
200K/400K
300K/600K
400K/800K
600K/1.2M
800K/1.6M

 

[FreeBop59]

Here's my recommendation:

T1500 starting stacks:
10 x T5
10 x T25
7 x T100
1 x T500
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28 chips = T1500

Use 1xT500 and 1xT1000 for all T1500 re-buys and add-ons. 7 x T100 starting chips is plenty when using a T5-based structure.

The set below covers roughly 127 x T1500 buy-ins (27 starting stacks and 100 x T1500 re-buys/add-ons):

270 x T5
270 x T25
200 x T100 (includes extras for T5 color-up)
140 x T500 (includes extras for T25 color-up and 100x re-buys/add-ons)
100 x T1000 (used for 100x re-buys/add-ons only)
20 x T5000 (used for T100 and T500 color-ups only)
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1000 chips

The actual numbers required are 270/270/203/141/19 = 1003, but given that the 100 re-buys/add-ons is not a concrete number, the slightly rounded numbers above should be just fine.

Dunno what structure is being used, but I do have a T5-based structure with 20-minute blinds that lasts 7+ hours (plus breaks) for 127 x 1500 buy-ins.

T1500 stacks (75BB)
20-minute blind levels

lvl sb bb
L1 10 20
L2 15 30
L3 20 40
L4 30 60
L5 40 80
remove T5 chips
L6 50 100
L7 75 150
L8 100 200
L9 150 300
remove T25 chips
L10 200 400
L11 300 600
L12 400 800
L13 600 1200
L14 800 1600
remove T100 chips
L15 1000 2000 +++
L16 1500 3000
L17 2000 4000
L18 2500 5000
remove T500 chips
L19 3000 6000
L20 4000 8000
L21 6000 12000 ***
L22 8000 16000
remove T1000 chips
L23 10000 20000
L24 15000 30000
L25 20000 40000
L26 25000 50000

+++ estimated 5 hours (plus breaks) for 27 players with no re-buys/add-ons

*** estimated 7 hours (plus breaks) for 27 players and 100 re-buys/add-ons

You can add additional early levels (5/10 and/or 5/15), but I think 75BB stacks are just about perfect for charity re-buy events. I'd run re-buys for the first five levels followed by the add-on at the first color-up break.

Here’s a 3 table T5 structure from @BGinGA that uses 20 minute levels—it scales to T5000 assuming you’ll have T1,000,000 and T5,000,000 for rebuys, add-ons, and color ups.

 

[TheRealStephen12]

Here’s a 3 table T5 structure from @BGinGA that uses 20 minute levels—it scales to T5000 assuming you’ll have T1,000,000 and T5,000,000 for rebuys, add-ons, and color ups.

This is for a charity tournament, though. The blinds begin with only 75BB for a starting stack, where you usually want 200BB to start normally (at least 150 is good if the first increase is only 50%). The structure is fine, but start with 3-4M per person if you go with that structure.