| Re: Tournament structure för a 4h game with 35 players
Well, you can't have lots of time to play AND a short tourney . . . unless you steeply raise the blinds after 2 hours or so.
And the issue with only 30 x BB could a real problem. If your lowest chip is a $25, why not go to a $5,000 starting stack?
By my calculations based on typical players, a 35-man T$3,000 tourney ($105,000 total chips) should be over when the BB is about $8,000, maybe a little sooner. In your case, that's almost 5 hours. So you'd need to target for a 4K/8K SB/BB about level 12 or so. Maybe your group will bust out sooner....
But here's one possible solution:
1....25/50
2....50/100
3....75/150
4....100/200
5....150/300
6....200/400
7....400/800
8....700/1400
9....1000/2000
10...1500/3000
11...2000/4000
12...4000/8000 <--- target to end (or could make this 3K/6K)
13...7000/14000 (or 5K/10K)
14...10000/20000 | 
