[imthatguy]

My company is starting up a game and I need to know how many chips to order. I'd like to start people with T1500 and offer two rebuys. Can someone recco. the right number of chips and denoms, and a good blind schedule for at least 40 players? Thanks!

[jldecarlo]

For 40 players (and 25 rebuys) with starting stacks of:
T5x10
T25x10
T100x7
T500x1
you would need:

T5x400
T25x500
T100x400
T500x150
T1000x100

or 1550 chips.

If you go to 5-7-3-2 (T5-25-100-500) which is very few chips,

you can decrease to 200-320-200-150-100 (adding T1000) which is 970 chips, probably the best you can do.

I'll leave the blinds schedule to you, but you could easily just take the schedule from P* and make the levels last as long as you need.

L

[imthatguy]

That's great, thanks JL. Much appreciated!

[Captn_All_In]

I run a T1500 with TD 2.0, if you have that program I can send you the Rounds Template if your interested. My 30 man game runs 3-3.5 hrs.

Blinds work like this:

15/30
20/40
25/50
50/100
Break
75/150
100/200
200/400
300/600/25
Break
300/600/100
400/800/100
500/1000/100
700/1400/100
1000/2000/100
1500/3000/100
2000/4000/100
Break
2000/4000/500
3000/6000/500

[imthatguy]

Originally Posted by Captn_All_In

I run a T1500 with TD 2.0, if you have that program I can send you the Rounds Template if your interested. My 30 man game runs 3-3.5 hrs.

Blinds work like this:

15/30
20/40
25/50
50/100
Break
75/150
100/200
200/400
300/600/25
Break
300/600/100
400/800/100
500/1000/100
700/1400/100
1000/2000/100
1500/3000/100
2000/4000/100
Break
2000/4000/500
3000/6000/500

What's the breakdown for this schedule? It seems like it wouldn't be enough 5's and 25's to start with based on JL's breakdown...

[Captn_All_In]

Originally Posted by imthatguy

What's the breakdown for this schedule? It seems like it wouldn't be enough 5's and 25's to start with based on JL's breakdown...

T5 * 10
T25 * 10
T100 * 7
T500 *1

Occasionally a player may have to make change from a pot or another player, but nothing that wouldn't happen with other breakdowns.

This breakdown also converts easily to 1000 chip breakdowns:

320, 320, 300, 60

that leaves plenty of T100 and T500 for coloring up.

Hope that helps.

[imthatguy]

Originally Posted by Captn_All_In

T5 * 10
T25 * 10
T100 * 7
T500 *1

Occasionally a player may have to make change from a pot or another player, but nothing that wouldn't happen with other breakdowns.

This breakdown also converts easily to 1000 chip breakdowns:

320, 320, 300, 60

that leaves plenty of T100 and T500 for coloring up.

Hope that helps.

Based on that blind schedule, when do you do your colorups?

[Captn_All_In]

Color up reds at the first break, greens on the second, and then after an hour or so after that I color up a bunch of the blacks, but not all of them. If the tourney lasts all the way up to the final blinds then I color up all the blacks so that I can set up the next game while the guys who are left finish up. But I haven't ever had a tourney run that long .

[imthatguy]

Originally Posted by Captn_All_In

Color up reds at the first break, greens on the second, and then after an hour or so after that I color up a bunch of the blacks, but not all of them. If the tourney lasts all the way up to the final blinds then I color up all the blacks so that I can set up the next game while the guys who are left finish up. But I haven't ever had a tourney run that long .

That's great, thanks! Your schedule looks pretty good. I imagine that those are 15min. blinds?

[jldecarlo]

Originally Posted by imthatguy

That's great, thanks! Your schedule looks pretty good. I imagine that those are 15min. blinds?

Taylor the blinds to the length of time you want to play. Plan on the tourney ending when the SB+BB+antes are 8-10% of the total chips in play or maybe a bit sooner.
I usually have the first round go a little longer than the others because it usually takes a little while to get rolling.

L