Tourney Tournament Setup Riddle Help (1 Viewer)

[DuffCal]

I need help solving my own tournament riddle! I typically only play cash games but I have had these JACK Cincinnati chips for over a year and want to run a tournament and get these felted.

I have 800 of JACK Cincinnati Tournament Chips (breakdown below) and I was looking for suggestion on what I can host; starting stack, number of players I can support and blind structure.

Now I know there is the the Poker Chip Calculator but from what I can tell it doesn't reverse calculate.

Thanks in advance to everyone and I am open to all suggestions. Even if that is to buy more to make my set 'proper'.

25 - 240
100 - 240
500 - 100
1000 - 180
5000 - 40

 

[dmoney]

Looks like two tables of
12/12/5/6 - 10k starting stacks

or

3 tables
8/8/4/7

 

[DuffCal]

Looks like two tables of
12/12/5/6 - 10k starting stacks

or

3 tables
8/8/4/7

Thanks @dmoney!

What would you suggest for blind structures for this starting chip count?

 

[dmoney]

What would you suggest for blind structures for this starting chip count?

There are plenty of others but I believe I got this from @BGinGA. Play with your level times as desired - small tournies usually end when there are 20 total big blinds in play.

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
7	200	400
8	300	600
9	400	800
10	600	1,200
11	800	1,600
12	1,000	2,000
13	1,500	3,000
14	2,000	4,000
15	3,000	6,000
16	4,000	8,000
17	6,000	12,000
18	8,000	16,000
19	10,000	20,000
20	15,000	30,000
21	20,000	40,000
22	25,000	50,000
23	30,000	60,000
24	40,000	80,000
25	50,000	100,000
26	75,000	150,000

 

[Legend5555]

Two things to look at when doing this:

1 - how many players can you have given your smaller denom chips?

In this case, 30 given the 240 T25 and T100 by using 8/8.

2 - how much total do you have in your highest two denoms?

In this case 380k. So that is the total amount of chips you can put in play before rebuys are over.

So if you go 10k starting stacks with 30 players, you basically can't afford rebuys/reentry. You could do about 7500 and still make it work though with rebuys/reentry.