[vrecksler]

My brother and I wanted to host a heads-up tournament as well, and in looking for a perfect setup we used the homepokertourney.com double elimination as a base.

We wanted each round to last no more than 30 minutes, so we used a T1000 with blinds increasing every 5 minutes.

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It sounds fast, having 5 minute blinds but in heads-up you are playing a lot of hands and after testing it out with about 50 matches against each other, this seems to work for us. In those 50 matches, we have only made the last blind level once, and most games are done in about 10-15 minutes but we are both pretty aggressive in heads-up so we think that our other friends will probably take 20-25 minutes to finish a round.

I will be using this setup when I host a HU event in the next little bit; I would have done so sooner but I wanted to wait until the guys I play with had a bit more experience with adjusting their styles of play as the game gets more shorthanded. Some guys still sit on their stacks and get blinded and these guys will be feasted on in a HU tournament and I would rather wait until everyone is more comfortable with shifting gears a bit more.