Tourney What's the Best Chip Count/Chip Sizing for a 10 Person Tournament? (1 Viewer)

[cobalt_crash]

What's the Best Chip Count/Chip Sizing for a 10 Person Tournament?
I want it to last about 3-4 hours and not go all hours of the night......

 

[philhut]

Do you want a sit and go freeze out with a single buy in? Do you want there to be rebuys in the early portion of the game? Do you like the idea of larger or small chip stacks? Your tournament should theoretically end when there are approximately 20x big blinds on the table.

 

[Mr Winberg]

What's the Best Chip Count/Chip Sizing for a 10 Person Tournament?

It's a matter of preference, some like an abundance of chips, some like efficiency, most are somewhere in between. It's not like debates like ceramics vs China clays, antes vs no antes, or "which is the grail set" where pretty much everyone agrees.

Which will be the lowest chip value in your set, is that decided? It will help when discussing starting stacks. (25 used to be pretty standard, but now 100 is in style)

 

[chipinla]

I think 400-500 chips is more than enough. I have 500 for a t20000 tournament which leaves plenty of 1000s and 5000s for colorup.

200 - t100
100 - t500
140 - t1000
60 - t5000

Starting stacks
10 - t100
8 - t500
5 - t1000
2 - t5000

 

[SlowPokeTony]

I can tell you how I run my T5 base but those are becoming rare these days. People love 25 and 100 now. 10/10/7/3 for a 2,500 stack. Requires 100 T5, 100 T25, 100 T100 (70 to start and 30 to color up all 5s and 25s), and 30 T500. You don’t need any extra T500 to color up unless you plan on coloring up the 100s but that shouldn’t be necessary. You do need 5 T500s for every rebuy. So a set of 100/100/100/100 is more than enough to cover a game with rebuys for 10 players.

4 hour blind structure would be something like 15 minute levels: 10/20, 20/40, 30/60, 40/80, 50/100, 60/120. End rebuys, color up 5s. 75/150, 100/200, 150/300, 200/400, 250/500, 300/600, color up 25s. 400/800, 500/1000, 600/1200, 800/1600, 1000/2000

 

[ratbastard]

1 chip per person! (/s) Makes the game go really quickly!

 

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[OfficerLovejoy]

1 chip per person! (/s) Makes the game go really quickly!

Make sure they get a chair as well. Gives you a great opportunity to hit them with a saying they probably never heard before!

 

[LeLe]

1 chip per person! (/s) Makes the game go really quickly!

And you will save a lot of money on Chip as well

That aside, it more of a personal preference on your starting chip stack.

I like the starting chip to be around 30, it make people play tighter which is just like how a Tourney should be compare to Cash

For reference, I play T5 2k stack with 10/10/7/2

 

[Karimtl]

I think this is a very helpful vide:

He talks about starting stack, chip breakdown, and structure.

 

[BGinGA]

What's the Best Chip Count/Chip Sizing for a 10 Person Tournament?
I want it to last about 3-4 hours and not go all hours of the night......

Depends on what chip denom base you are using, but 400 chips is typically sufficient for a well-designed 10-player set, including re-buys.

Each stack's starting two lower denominations should be between 8 and 20 chips each, with preferred/optimum quantities being between 12 and 16 chips. Whether or not antes are used affects this decision, too.

Total number of chips in play at tournament end should be between 80 and 200, with 120-160 being the preferred/optimum total-in-play with an 80%/20% breakdown of the highest two denominations.

 

[Lee4711]

Depends on what chip denom base you are using, but 400 chips is typically sufficient for a well-designed 10-player set, including re-buys.

Each stack's starting two lower denominations should be between 8 and 20 chips each, with preferred/optimum quantities being between 12 and 16 chips. Whether or not antes are used affects this decision, too.

Total number of chips in play at tournament end should be between 80 and 200, with 120-160 being the preferred/optimum total-in-play with an 80%/20% breakdown of the highest two denominations.

I really like this answer and find it extremely helpful. Instead of suggesting a prescriptive method you listed a generally acceptable range and the logic behind it. That being the preferred number of chips that you would want in play at the end of the tournament. Well put @BGinGA . Thank you!!