Need Advice for Home Tournament

[Robbie Robb]

I've been running a monthly home game for about a year and a half now. The first year or so was spent constantly tweaking chip counts and blind structures. We've NOW, in the past few months, finally found something that seems to work well. We usually have between 12-15 players but can accommodate 20 players.

Starting Chips: 2500
Value - Count
10 - 20
25 - 12
50 - 10
100 - 10
500 - 1

Blind Structure:
10/20
20/40
30/60
40/80
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
200/400
250/500
300/600
400/800
500/1000
600/1200
750/1500

Blinds go up every 20 minutes. No antes at all. We don't have a formalized color-up process but usually get exchange out the reds during the 75/150 or 100/200 level.

With this structure our 15 person game lasted about 3.5 hours last month. There is some talk that the players would like a little bit quicker beginning to the game so we may reevaluate the lower blinds and maybe tweak that around a bit.