Setting up Home Tournament

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Re: Setting up Home Tournament

Postby gjp33 » Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:56 pm

maccatak11 wrote:
gjp33 wrote:this is my potential structure
now with 4k chips.

Level Small Big
1 25 50
2 50 100
3 75 150
Break
4 100 200
5 150 300
6 200 400
Break Chip up 25's
7 300 600
8 500 1000
9 700 1400
Break Chip up 100's
10 1000 2000
11 1500 3000
12 2000 4000
Break
13 3000 6000
14 4000 8000
15 5000 10000


I might add a 400/800 level i think.

Also, not antes? this is the best way to make it slightly quicker without making the levels steeper. 5k start stack, use benny the cunt's structure and 20min levels and i reckon that will run nicely.


good idea
start stack 4k
Level Small Big Ante
1 25 50
2 50 100
3 75 150
4 100 200
5 150 300
6 200 400
7 300 600 50
8 500 1000 100
9 700 1400 100
10 800 1600 200
11 1000 2000 200
12 1500 3000 300
13 2000 4000 400
14 3000 6000 600
15 4000 8000 800


wonder how long that would go far? any idea bennymacca?

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Re: Setting up Home Tournament

Postby bennymacca » Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:12 pm

how long are your levels mate? 20 minutes?

if they are 20 minutes, then thats 4 hours worth of play, not including breaks. that should be fine i reckon.

not sure if you wanna chip out your 100s near the end of the tourney though, if you do, then you will have to change the antes at levels 13-15. but i guess its prolly not worth it for an hour of play.


personally, i like having a 400/800 level rather than a 75/150 level, but thats just me.

also, if it looks like the tourney is going longer, just drop the later levels back to 10 or 15 minutes. might make the final table play a bit turbo, but if you only have a set amount of time, then its an option. then you can tweak the blinds for next time.


looks like you have it sorted. hope it all goes well.
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Re: Setting up Home Tournament

Postby bennymacca » Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:15 pm

Garth Kay wrote:Why 30 minute blind levels at the beginning benny the cunt?

Myself I prefer a god cannonball structure!

5 minutes for the first four blinds.
10 minutes for the next four
20 minutes for the next four
40 for the last four blind levels.

Good fun, get's the annoying grinding section of the tourney out of the way.


do you have a sample blind structure? start stack?

might think of something like this for my next tourney
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Re: Setting up Home Tournament

Postby bennymacca » Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:17 pm

gjp33, i would prolly make it a 5k start stack as well
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Re: Setting up Home Tournament

Postby Brett Kay » Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:08 pm

Work Backwards

18 Players @ 5k = 90k chips.

Two players with 5bb = 50000k or 10000k

Therefore final level is
5000k/10000k
4000/8000
3000/6000
2000/4000
1000/2000
500/1000
400/800
300/600
200/400
100/200
50/100
25/50

4 Hour tourney with 20 min blinds.
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Re: Setting up Home Tournament

Postby gjp33 » Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:21 pm

bennymacca wrote:how long are your levels mate? 20 minutes?

if they are 20 minutes, then thats 4 hours worth of play, not including breaks. that should be fine i reckon.

not sure if you wanna chip out your 100s near the end of the tourney though, if you do, then you will have to change the antes at levels 13-15. but i guess its prolly not worth it for an hour of play.


personally, i like having a 400/800 level rather than a 75/150 level, but thats just me.

also, if it looks like the tourney is going longer, just drop the later levels back to 10 or 15 minutes. might make the final table play a bit turbo, but if you only have a set amount of time, then its an option. then you can tweak the blinds for next time.


looks like you have it sorted. hope it all goes well.


yeh 20 minutes levels, good point about the ante's on level 13-15, didnt think of that

think i'll leave it how it is with that structure and 4k stack and just how it goes, the first one is a bit of a lottery anyway

thanks for all your help! its Dec 13 so still a bit off

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Re: Setting up Home Tournament

Postby bennymacca » Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:25 pm

gjp33 wrote:thanks for all your help


no worries.

yeah obviously you can tweak it a bit for the next tourney.

with a 4k stack, i would probably think that your tourney will be shorter rather than longer than 4 hours
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Re: Setting up Home Tournament

Postby gjp33 » Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:01 pm

NICE, SHORTER IS PROBABLY BETTER FOR THE FIRST ONE
DAMN CAPS LOCK ;)

Now just to win it! :geek:

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Re: Setting up Home Tournament

Postby krunchie » Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:10 pm

gjp33 wrote:NICE, SHORTER IS PROBABLY BETTER FOR THE FIRST ONE
DAMN CAPS LOCK ;)

Now just to win it! :geek:


Why is shorter better,

there is plenty of shorter games anyone can play.

I went the other way earlier this year with my mate Macatack11 and ran a full day deepstack in my backyard.

I guess the reasoning was so we could play a proper deepish stack tourney which as you are aware are pretty few and far between

we had 24 starters ( from memory), 10k start stack and started at 10 am, we charged $10 bucks per head above the buy in for lunch and I put on a BBQ, the left over cash went on drinks and nibbles and into the prize pool if anymore left over.

Finished around 5 I think, so it gave everyone the chance to play real poker and it seemed to go down a treat.

Just a different point of view
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Re: Setting up Home Tournament

Postby gjp33 » Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:14 pm

Yeh mate but the people I have coming arent as die hard as you and me... personally what you ran or bennys deepstack seem like awesome ideas, but many are just casual poker players


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