Poker Tourney

[thrash1294]

I would run it like a sng blinds up every 12 mins 10-20 doubling each time
1st25 2nd 15 3rd 10. last max 2hrs. That why you can play 2 or 3

[HEwong]

i think he wants to lengthen the game not shorten it... notice how he said should we slow the blinds down.

[Robbie Robb]

As Zy mentioned - stacks and blinds depends on how long you want the tourney to run. Nikki & I run a monthly game and we've been tweaking the structure each month. I *think* we've finally arrived at something that everyone is happy with. It goes a little something like this... (hit it!)

# of players: 14-20 (we run two tables to start)
buyin: $10
stack size: 2000
blinds: Okay, this is where we go WAY off the normal (read: casino) path. This was in response to overall player recommendation. We bump up the blinds to the next level whenever someone is knocked out, or one hour, whichever comes first. We find that it's pretty much a dead heat for the first increase but then people start to drop rather rapidly These also means that we could skip levels completely.
levels: 10/20; 20/40; 30/60; 40/80; 50/100; at this point we do a chip swap dumping 10s and 20s, swapping them out for 100s and 25s. Carrying on: 75/150; 100/200; 150/300; 200/400. Now we start to see some antes: 200/400/25; 250/500/50; 300/600/75; 400/800/100; 500/1000/125; 600/1200/150; 700/1400/175; 800/1600/200.
Note: we cap the blinds at their max level when we're down to three players. With 14-20 people we find the game usually lasts about 3-4.5 hours, depending on the night.

As for payouts, anything < 15 people is three payouts: 50%, 25%, 15%. 15 or more we bump it up to four spots (and I let The Tournament Director software figure out the payouts).

[thrash1294]

i think he wants to lengthen the game not shorten it... notice how he said should we slow the blinds down.
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I did not see that in the post

[nflchad]

This ought to help

[HEwong]

its in the 3rd post