dmoney
Full House
A local host wants to put on a single-table $500 tournament and is interested in renting my chips for it. He's asking for my input, so I'm steering towards deeper and more skillful structures vs. some more rebuy-focused setups, as I may play in the tournament myself.
I have suggested a T25-base, 20k, estimating for 3 rebuys so the tournament would run for about 6 hours with 20-minute levels. He likes the idea of a t15k with a 5k on-time bonus.
I think players would want lots of chips in play, for mostly psychological reasons: to feel like they are getting their money's worth and to loosen up the game. So I'm leaning towards a 16/16/8/9/1 breakdown of 50 chips to start, with rebuys at 20x t1000. With a deep stack, slow structure, and relatively high buy-in, I think the rebuys will be minimal if they are cut off at level 6 (~2 hours). Rebuys and surrender stacks at level 6 would start with 50bbs - plenty for a tourney, imo.
Thoughts and opinions please!
I have suggested a T25-base, 20k, estimating for 3 rebuys so the tournament would run for about 6 hours with 20-minute levels. He likes the idea of a t15k with a 5k on-time bonus.
I think players would want lots of chips in play, for mostly psychological reasons: to feel like they are getting their money's worth and to loosen up the game. So I'm leaning towards a 16/16/8/9/1 breakdown of 50 chips to start, with rebuys at 20x t1000. With a deep stack, slow structure, and relatively high buy-in, I think the rebuys will be minimal if they are cut off at level 6 (~2 hours). Rebuys and surrender stacks at level 6 would start with 50bbs - plenty for a tourney, imo.
Thoughts and opinions please!
Level | Small Blind | Big Blind |
-- | 25 | 25 |
1 | 25 | 50 |
2 | 25 | 75 |
3 | 50 | 100 |
4 | 75 | 150 |
5 | 100 | 200 |
6 | 150 | 300 |
Color Up t25 | End rebuys & surrender stacks | ||
7 | 200 | 400 |
8 | 300 | 600 |
9 | 400 | 800 |
10 | 600 | 1,200 |
11 | 800 | 1,600 |
Color up t100 | ||
12 | 1,000 | 2,000 |
13 | 1,500 | 3,000 |
14 | 2,000 | 4,000 |
15 | 3,000 | 6,000 |
Color up t500 | ||
16 | 4,000 | 8,000 |
17 | 6,000 | 12,000 |
18 | 8,000 | 16,000 |
Color up t1000 | Projected end of tournament | ||
19 | 10,000 | 20,000 |
20 | 15,000 | 30,000 |
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