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Posted Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:19 pm GMT by texjustin
I was just curious how everyone does there touney structures.The touneys i host go like this,we have 3k starting chips
20-25's
15-100's
2-500's
Blinds go up every 30 minutes
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
color up 25's
200/400
300/600
400/800
color up 100's
500/1000-max blind level
This structure works great and would reccomend it to anyone,just curious as to how u guys run your games.
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Posted Sat Mar 12, 2005 4:05 pm GMT by ky70
We like to play multiple tourney games on poker night so no rebuys or add-ons and a semi-aggressive blind schedule...
1500 in chips per player
20 5s
10 10s
10 25s
7 50s
3 100s
1 500
Blinds go up every 20 minutes and are:
25/50
50/100
100/200
race off 5s, 10s, 25s
200/400
400/800
500/1000 for remainder of tourney
Posted Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:21 pm GMT by yeltzen
| ky70 wrote: |
Blinds go up every 20 minutes and are:
25/50
50/100
100/200
race off 5s, 10s, 25s
200/400
400/800
500/1000 for remainder of tourney |
No offense, but what is the point of having 5s and 10s if the blinds start at 25/50?
We start w/ 1k: 20 5s, 20 25s, 4 100s. Blinds go 5/10, 10/20, 15/30, 25/50, 50/100, 100/200, 150/300, 200/400... every 15 minutes.
Posted Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:45 pm GMT by CreatureX
16 - $25
11 - $100
3 - $500
30 chips = $3000
15 minute blinds
25-50
50-100
75-150
100-200 (25 ante)
150-300 (50)
200-400 (50)
300-600 (75)
400-800 (100)
500-1000 (100)
600-1200 (200)
800-1600 (200)
1000-2000 (300)
1500-3000 (400)
2000-4000 (500)
10 people or less tourneys usually end in the bold levels.
Posted Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:21 pm GMT by Double Eagle
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Posted Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:01 am GMT by Wooderson
I'm going to open myself up to my own idocy here, but I've been playing TX HoldEm for 2 years now, and I have always played tourney games. We've never played with antes b/c frankly none of us know how they work or have bothered to find out. How do antes in HE work?
Posted Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:16 am GMT by gmunny
| Wooderson wrote: | | I'm going to open myself up to my own idocy here, but I've been playing TX HoldEm for 2 years now, and I have always played tourney games. We've never played with antes b/c frankly none of us know how they work or have bothered to find out. How do antes in HE work? |
Everyone must put in the required ante before the hand. In addition, the SB and BB still must post. Usually in the tourny's iv'e played in, the ante doesn't kick in until the later rounds. Also, the ante increases along with the blinds. With antes, you don't need to raise the blinds as fast since there is going to be more action with a larger pot to start.
G$
Posted Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:53 am GMT by ky70
| yeltzen wrote: | | ky70 wrote: |
Blinds go up every 20 minutes and are:
25/50
50/100
100/200
race off 5s, 10s, 25s
200/400
400/800
500/1000 for remainder of tourney |
No offense, but what is the point of having 5s and 10s if the blinds start at 25/50?... |
None taken...I get that question a lot. The reason is because I like to use all of my denoms (I can't accept never using certain denoms and adjusting our blinds downward would make our games go longer than we like) and I like to have a good number of chips on the table. One time I removed the lower denoms and we started with 33 chips and I didn't like starting with the smaller stacks.
Posted Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:56 am GMT by Idaho
Start at 8pm and have unlimited rebuys until 10pm if you have less than $300.
$1,000 (TP) in chips:
10 x $5
10 x $25
6 x $100
Rebuys get issued with 2 $500 chips.
Blinds go up every 20 mins:
10 - 20
15 - 30
20 - 40
25 - 50 (colour up and race off)
50 - 100
75 - 150
100 - 200
150 - 300
300 - 500 (colour up)
500 - 1000
1000 - 2000 until finish
Posted Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:51 am GMT by The Nutz
16 player tourney $50 buy-in
12,000 in chips : 5- $1000
10- $500
15- $100
20- $25
Rebuys & Add-Ons thru level 5 (Add-on is $20 for $5000 in Chips)
Blind Schedule: Every 30 minutes
Level Small Big Ante
1 25 50 -
2 50 100 -
3 75 150 -
4 100 200 -
5 200 400 25
6 300 600 25
7 400 800 25
8 500 1000 100
9 700 1400 100
10 1000 2000 100
11 1500 3000 100
12 2000 4000 500
13 3000 6000 500
14 4000 8000 500
15 5000 10,000 1000
It can be kinda long... but profitable and fun.
Payout is usually : 1st- $500
2nd- $350
3rd- $225
4th- $130
5th- $60
High Hand = $50
"Worst" Beat = $50
Each Kill = $5
This structure is only once a month. Usually takes 8-10 hrs.
Posted Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:16 am GMT by yeltzen
| ky70 wrote: | | None taken...I get that question a lot. The reason is because I like to use all of my denoms (I can't accept never using certain denoms and adjusting our blinds downward would make our games go longer than we like) and I like to have a good number of chips on the table. One time I removed the lower denoms and we started with 33 chips and I didn't like starting with the smaller stacks. |
If I were you, I'd start the blinds lower and have them increase every 15 minutes. Like, have them go 5/10, 10/20, 25/50 or something like that. That way everyone still starts with lots of chips but they're necessary.
Posted Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:46 am GMT by ky70
| yeltzen wrote: | | ky70 wrote: | | None taken...I get that question a lot. The reason is because I like to use all of my denoms (I can't accept never using certain denoms and adjusting our blinds downward would make our games go longer than we like) and I like to have a good number of chips on the table. One time I removed the lower denoms and we started with 33 chips and I didn't like starting with the smaller stacks. |
If I were you, I'd start the blinds lower and have them increase every 15 minutes. Like, have them go 5/10, 10/20, 25/50 or something like that. That way everyone still starts with lots of chips but they're necessary. |
Since I'm picking up new chips (NJ skulls), I decided to only buy 25s, 100s and 500s, so that will take care of the 5s problem.
For our tourney to end when it does, I have to start the big blind between 1/70th and 1/50th of starting chips...with that in mind, 5/10 would give me maximum starting chip value of 700 and I personally don't wan't that low. I guess I've decided it's better to not use the 5s than to not use the 500s. But I do see the error of my original set-up
Posted Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:54 am GMT by yeltzen
Yeah, unfortunately the NJ Skulls don't have a $1000 chip.
I also wish they would have made the $0.25 chip grey... ah well!
Posted Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:50 am GMT by Mr. Meaner
$100 buy-in with one $50 rebuy/addon(T1500) usually 20 -30 people
$1500 in chips w/ rebuys the first hour.
8 X $25
8 X $50
9 X $100
25 chips
Blinds - 20 Min rounds
25-25
25-50
50-100
75-150
Color up Greens and do all rebuys-addons
100-200
150-300
200-400
ect..
Posted Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:51 am GMT by Mr. Meaner
double post, sorry
Posted Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:40 pm GMT by Wooderson
In asking about antes I forgot to post our tourney schedule. We have two tourney schedules. No antes.
The first one is when we have 10 or fewer people. Each gets $5000 in chips for a $20 buy-in. Can re-buy half the chips for $20. Blinds increase every 30 minutes.
25/25
25/50
50/100 <-- No more re-buys after this blind
100/250
250/500
500/1000
1000/2500
2500/5000
If we have mor than 10 people, everyone gets 2500 for $20 buying. Same rebuy rule applies. Blinds increase every 30 minutes.
Blinds are:
25/25
25/50
50/100 <-- No rebuys after this blind
75/150
100/250
250/500
500/1000
750/1500
1000/2500
2500/5000
Winner gets 50% of original buy-ins plus all rebuy amounts. 2nd place gets 37.5% and 3rd gets 12.5%. If we have 6 or fewer people 2nd gets their money back, 1st gets the remainder.
Posted Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:54 pm GMT by Always_Bored
Each person gets 2000 in chips. 2X500, 5X100 and 20X25.
20 Minute Rounds
BLINDS
25-50
50-100
75-150
BREAK
100-200
150-300
200-400
BREAK
250-500
300-600
400-800
BREAK
500-1000
600-1200
800-1600
edit: No Buy ins at all.
Posted Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:36 pm GMT by gmunny
Usually have around 20-24 players, starting chips T1000 (15x$5, 13x$25, 6x$100). The last few times we had a $50 buyin, 1 $50 full rebuy under 300 for first 2 hours only, and 1 add of T500 for $20 at end of rebuy period. I used to do a $100 freezeout, but I found that the buyin was a little too high for newer or inexperienced players. See below for blind schedule. The first 4 rounds are 30 minutes so newer players can get used to the format. Tourney usually lasts about 6 hours.
Blinds
rd# min sb bb
1 30 $10 $20
2 30 15 30
3 30 25 50
4 30 30 60
break 15/end of rebuy/color up
5 20 50 100
6 20 75 150
7 20 100 200
break 30
8 20 150 300
9 20 200 400
10 20 250 500
break 15/color up
11 15 300 600
12 15 400 800
13 15 500 1,000
14 15 600 1,200
15 15 800 1,600
16 15 1,000 2,000
17 15 1,500 3,000
One question to the other hosts, how do you handle table balancing/combining?
I've used the method as discussed on home tourney.com, and even though its random, people complained about how the big stack moved to/from their table, the moved players are at a disadvantage since they have no reads of the net table's players, etc. Of course these are folks that never played in a B&M or internet tourney before, so I should probably just ignore them :D !
I also tried taking the top 3 from each table, but that caused a big delay when I table lasted 45 minutes longer than the others. Needless to say, I won't try that again.
G$
Posted Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:55 pm GMT by Wooderson
If we have <8 people, we're all at one table. If we have >8 people we're at two or more tables, each table a max of 6 people. We'll play until each table has 3 people and then combine. There's usually no more than a 30 minute wait to combine.
Posted Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:35 pm GMT by Idaho
| Always_Bored wrote: | | edit: No Buy ins at all. |
Cripes - not really worth playing is it 
Posted Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:15 pm GMT by Always_Bored
| Idaho wrote: | | Always_Bored wrote: | | edit: No Buy ins at all. |
Cripes - not really worth playing is it |
Its still fun. I would prefer buy ins, but i keep getting out voted by the people who dont want them. We used to play with buy ins and we would have $500 plus pots now we are lucky to break $200. I guess the people who are outvoting me are the people who lose every week and it cost them less to lose if they cant buy in.
Posted Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:37 pm GMT by R Deckard
I know it's stating the obvious, but (just to get my post count up  ) don't you mean "re-buy" when you say "buy-in"? The term "buy-in" (in the U.S., at least) means the money that everyone pays at the start of the tourney for their initial stacks.
Post Count: +1, yay.
Posted Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:26 am GMT by Idaho
Yeah I was just making a wise crack about you using the wrong term 
Posted Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:57 am GMT by Always_Bored
lol, ya, meant rebuy 
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