Uneven blinds in tourneys? (1 Viewer)

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A buddy who plays tournaments regularly in A.C. says that he has started seeing what he called “uneven blinds.” By this he meant tournament structures where the small blind is more than half of the big blind.

So, for example, instead of a 200/400 level, you might get a 250/400 level, or (later) 2,500/4,000.

I’ve never encountered this, but it is intriguing. If indeed casinos are experimenting with this, I assume it is because they want to disincentivize folding from the small blind... However, with more money in preflop, that would seem to further incentivize aggression from late position (button/cutoff), since there is more to steal. Not a lot more—about 1/2 a blind—but more. So, it might be a wash.

If a hand goes to the flop, it’s likely there is also going to be more money in the pot than with normal 1x/2x blind structures. And maybe more multiway hands, if the small blind is defending more often. So it also would seem to have the effect of introducing more variance, and “shortening” stacks (i.e., your stack to pot ratios are going to tend to be smaller).

Am I missing something here? Or was my buddy pulling my leg?
 
Might be doing it to accommodate a chipset, but 250/400 wouldn't make sense in that example.

Local casino has a 500/1500 level. It tilts my OCD.
 
I dont think that 1/8 of a BB is going to be enough to get me to defend my small blind any more than the small blind already does (which really isn't a lot). I'd rather defend my ante from a better position.
 
I dont think that 1/8 of a BB is going to be enough to get me to defend my small blind any more than the small blind already does (which really isn't a lot). I'd rather defend my ante from a better position.


So, why would they even bother with this? Seems it would just create confusion and slow things down. People ask “What’re the blinds” too much already...
 
So, why would they even bother with this? Seems it would just create confusion and slow things down. People ask “What’re the blinds” too much already...

I don't know, but to encourage the SB to defend seems unlikely. Maybe they overbought T500s and needed a reason to put more of them on the table? :confused:
 
A buddy who plays tournaments regularly in A.C. says that he has started seeing what he called “uneven blinds.” By this he meant tournament structures where the small blind is more than half of the big blind.

I have seen uneven blinds like 100/300 and 2000/5000, same as what you would find in cash games. The purpose is to color-up early. I have never seen 200/300 or 3000/5000.
 
Yeah, I asked him, do you mean a smaller small blind, like 100-300 or something? But he said it was the opposite. Weird. I gotta go back and ask him again.
 
I once had a 700/1500 level. I liked it because the BB was just 2 chips.

Eventually it got cut out from nearly every structure I use, because confused players are not the happiest players.
 

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