[Dimes]

Your starting blinds are quite high, only 20 big blinds. You could consider starting the blinds at 100-200.

As others I also think you have too many different values. Maybe you could swap chips with other dice owners or buy a few sets with more containing either red, white or blue chips.

You can use the values 100-500-1000-5000-10000. That would probably be enough colours for this tournament.

If you use the chips you have, give out:

10 x $100 = $1,000 (making a total of 500 x $100)
10 x $500 = $5,000 (500 x $500 + 100 x $500 for colouring-up the $100s, totalling 600 x $500)
4 x $1000 = 4,000 (200 x $1000 + 300 x $1000 for colouring-up the $500s, if necessary, totalling 500 x $1000)

Issue $5000s and, if necessary, $10000s for rebuys.

If you get another 150 red, white or blue chips, use:

15 x $100 = $1,500 (making a total of 750 x $100)
9 x $500 = $4,500 (450 x $500 + 150 x $500 for colouring-up the $100s totalling 600 x $500)
4 x $1000 = $4,000 (total: 200 x $1000 + 300 x $1000 for colouring-up the $500s totalling 500 x $1000)

Instead of getting another 150 red, white or blue chips, you could also use one of the colours of which you have 150 as $100s. If you use white for 100s, you can use greys as 100s too. When you take the 100s out of the tournament, this two-colour confusion will go away and you will be down to no more than 4 colours in the game (3 if you don't need $10000s).

The ante is on average about 13 percent (1/7.7) of the big blind at the WSOP main event.

TT