Typical small 8 person torney starting chips. (1 Viewer)

[mws2019]

For an eight person small friendly tournament what do you usually start with on stacks? And then when do you guys change your blinds when starting at $1/$2 blinds and what steps. Chips are 1/5/25/100/500

 

[MC_CPA]

10/8/10/2 or 10/8/10/7 depending on the length.

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

I'd say $300 starting stack.
10 x $1
13 x $5
9 x $25

Without rebuy, the tourney shall end at level 50-100 or 75-150.

With structure :
1-1
1-2
1-3
2-4
3-6
4-8
6-12
8-16
## color-up 1 with 25
10-20
15-30
20-40
30-60
40-80
## color-up 5 with 100
50-100
75-150
100-200
150-300
200-400
300-600
...

 

[Poker Zombie]

It' snot enough to know the denoms, but I also need how many of each denomination.

Take @Kid_Eastwood 's blind levels for example. It's a good structure, but you need a lot of $1s, or you will be making change every pot. How many is "a lot"? I'd need fifteen $1s per player with since you need six $1s just to fold in the blinds. 15x8 players is 120 chips, and you can still be expected to be making change as inevitably one player will inadvertently will more and someone else will lose them constantly. Even more if your players limp a lot.

 

[mws2019]

200-$1's
200-$5's
100-$25
100-$100
100-$500

 

[Poker Zombie]

I only run 1 tournament using cash chips. It's a survivor tournament, where once we get in the money the remaining players are paid out whatever they have in chips. Ours uses $20 chips instead of $25s, so I modified it slightly to fit your chips...

1.00	2.00
1.00	3.00
2.00	4.00
3.00	6.00
Break
4.00	8.00
6.00	12.00
8.00	16.00
12.00	24.00
Color Up	$1s
15.00	30.00
20.00	40.00
30.00	60.00
40.00	80.00
60.00	120.00
Color Up	$5s
75.00	150.00
100.00	200.00
150.00	300.00

It is very similar to @Kid_Eastwood 's structure. at 15 minute levels, 15 minute breaks, you are at about 4:15 , and 20 minute levels closer to 5 hours.

 

[mws2019]

Thank you sir. Would you use more chips in the beginning or stick with what kid Eastwood said? Seems a bit low in my opinion but maybe I'm wrong.

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

300 chips on 1-2 is lower indeed.
So bump it to 600 to have 300 BB.

 

[Poker Zombie]

For a $300 starting stack:
15 x $1
12 x $5
9 x $25

Contrary to @Kid_Eastwood 's thought that 150 BB to start is low, I think it is fine. After 2 hours the average stack is 25 BB. If you allow single (or more) rebuys, everybody would likely still be playing. I would not frown upon a $500 starting stack by adding a couple Hundos for everyone, but only if it was a freezeout. With $500 starting stacks, players won't feel the pinch until after you color up the ones, 2/3s of the way through the tournament.