Need Advice for Home Tournament

[Reel Deal]

I think a lot of this depends on your crowd. I play with a crowd that wants the games to go fairly quickly so those that get knocked out early don't have to wait around forever for the next game.

We usually have 8-10 guys and they want to get in 3-4 SnGs each night. So, with that in mind we had to find a set-up that kept each SnG to about 1.5 hours (that way guys that get knocked out early aren't sitting around for a long time waiting for the next game to start). Thus we've set up our blinds to move up fairly fast (12-13 minute levels). We start with 3,750 in chips (five $50 chips, ten $100 chips, and five $500 chips) and 50/100 for the first level. We then allow unlimited re-buys for the first two levels.

Basically it we're playing a turbo, re-buy SnG. Being one of the better players it's not my favorite format b/c you can get short pretty quickly, but with the rebuy period it makes for some interesting plays and also with 2-4 rebuys each game it adds enough chips to the table to keep the later rounds from being push-or-fold poker (and makes for some nice sized pay-outs).

[Invigilator]

Thank you for all your replies.

The reason I did not mention anything about lenght of levels, is because that is my time control variable.

We start at 8 pm and try to be done before midnight. Once I know how many chips are in play in the tournment, I adjust the blinds (sometimes) and the level length (more often) to create a situation where the big blind represents 10% of the chips in play by about 11:30 at night. That usually means that we are in heads up play by then.

The set I got is very flexible for starting amounts and the number of people we can accomodate. Time is the critical factor for most of my guests. For this monthly event there is only one tournament. It is kind of like a league. For those with nothing better to do once knocked out we have side games, board games, Euchre and general partying.

The game is tonight. Maybe I will have a significant hand to post tomorrow.

R

[Invigilator]

The Poker Night went well. Thanks again for the feedback. I was a bad host; I won. On the final hand, we both rivered 2 pair, but mine was a bit better.

I am definitely going to repeat this structure next month.

R