I want to use some of my FC's for a tourney set. I have a bunch but I want to be able to narrow it down to a 300 chip set so I can bring it places easily. We play 25/50 with 4k-5k starting stacks, and I want to be able to accomodate 10 players with 5k stacks and rebuys if at all possible. The way we do it now is:
16x25
11x100
7x500
with a standard 25/50 blind schedule and levels of 20 minutes. Obviously the bare minimum for this set up with 10 people and no rebuys is 340 chips. I like having 16x25 because I think it's an impetus for more action early on. However if I cut the starting stacks down to:
12x25
12x100
7x500
That's still 310 chips. I really prefer having just 3 denoms (so no 1K chip) but I may incorporate 1K chips for rebuys. A further option, if I include the 1K chip, is to have starting stacks of:
12x25
12x100
5x500
1x1000
This makes the set exactly 300 chips with 10 people, but allows 0 rebuys.
However, if rebuys are allowed, I don't really see a problem with shortening the starting stacks from 100xbb to 80xbb (from 5k to 4k). So I was thinking making the starting stacks:
12x25
12x100
3x500
1x1000
and letting players rebuy for
4x1000
But that's now 320 chips if every player is able to rebuy one time.
But if I only allow rebuys for the first 3 blind levels (first hour), then it's very doubtful that more than half the field (5 players) will have busted and want to rebuy.
So my final set of 300 chips allowing for 10 starting stacks of 4k and 5 rebuys of 4k would look like:
120x25
120x100
30x500
30x1000
But there are obviously problems with this set. It is the exact minimum of chips needed, so if I lose 1 or 2 I'm sort of screwed. Another problem I see is allowing rebuys for just the first hour. What if someone gets a real bad beat laid on them an hour and a half into my tourney? (What if it's me?!
) I sort of want to allow an addon at the end of the first hour to accomodate this, perhaps 2k. The only way I see this working is if fewer than 5 people rebuy. For instance, if 3 people rebuy there are still 8k in chips left and 4 of the remaining players may take a 2k addon. Probably, though, everyone will want the addon. How should I solve these problems? Have I overlooked/ not considered anything?
