[Slagar]

I am going to purchase chips for my college poker tournament. We want to be able to have 50 person tournaments with T2000. Here is what I am thinking for the breakdown, I would appreciate any (constructive) comments.

T5 - 500
T25 - 600
T100 - 675
T500 - 150
T1000 - 75
Total: 2000

Dr. Neau's TM suggests starting stacks of:
T5 - 10
T25 - 10
T100 - 12
T500 - 1

This allows for color ups.

[P10bostonian]

You can try this set up..

do a 50 man tourney with T2500


Blinds will be
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
200/400
500/1000
600/1200
and so one..

for that set, you can use
$25 - 600
$100 - 750
$500 - 330
$1000 - 20

about 1700 chips

[Strange]

Quick comment. not sure what your starting levels are like, but if you spend the first 40 minutes playing in the sub 100 level, you are likely to force the players to constantly make change as they run out of T5 chips.

Its always good to have a higher number of low denom chips if you can afford the luxury, but the breakdown that you have listed might well be a good compromise if the levels are right.

How about something like 600 x 5, 600 x 25, 575 x 100

Could you list the blind structure as well?

[BigKyle]

You are better off playing without the 5's for larger tournaments. I would suggest

12 x 25
7 x 100
3 x 500

22 chips each worth 2500

buy 600 T25 chips
buy 500 T100 chips
buy 250 T500 chips

You can buy more of each chip to round out the set but that's the bare minimum

[Slagar]

Blind structure 10 minute levels:
5/10
10/20
15/30
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
200/400
300/600
400/800
600/1200
1000/2000
1500/3000
2000/4000
6000/12000


I do not think we will be getting 50 players for quite some time as we are a new club. I am expecting 30-40 players so I will have flexibility in the starting stacks.

We will also be using this set for our weekly poker nights which are usually 12-20 people and we have a few variations we play so we need the T5 chips. To date we have been using member's chip sets with T5 - T10 - T25 - T100 - T250 but I am taking this chance to due away with that annoyance.

[CaptLego]

With a T5 as the small chip, and starting the blinds at 5/10, you could consider a T1000 starting stack. That would still be 100x the BB, which I think is still a generous starting stack, but makes the initial hands worth playing. You could lengthen the time spent at the first couple of levels, if you want to keep the pressure low for awhile.

For T1000, you could start each player with:
T5 x 15
T25 x 13
T100 x 6
----------------
34 chips per player, T1000

For 50 players, you'd need:
T5 x 750
T25 x 800 (provides enough to colorup the T5)
T100 x 400 (provides enough to colorup half of the T25)
T500 x 50 (provides enough to colorup the rest of the T25, plus a 30 extras)
--------------------------
2000 chips

With the extra T500, you could support 15 rebuys, or you could colorup 150 of the T100's... this could probably be tweaked to buy fewer T25 (using some T100during the colorup of the T5's)... so that would ripple through to allowing for more T500's... (I really need to work on the colorup calculations of the breakdown calculator to allow more flexibility here...)

[Slagar]

My original plan was to have starting stacks of T1500.

Is it unusual for the time of the blind levels to change? Like 15 minutes for the first few, then move to 10 minute blinds? We want this tournament to be a fun one, not overly competitive. It is a student/staff tournament with bounties on the professors but we don't want people dropping like flies in the first few blind structures. Getting knocked out in the first few hands is never fun so that's why I decided to increase the starting stacks but I like the idea of having the first few blind structures be longer.

[zbme]

With large numbers of people playing, I would lower the number of chips. For 25 or more people I would use only 20 chips per person (which one persons starting stack fits in one row of a plastic rack) Too many chips makes it difficult to color up and can cause a mess when trying to put them away.

$5 x 10 = $50
$25 x 6 = $150
$100 x 3 = $300
$500x 1 = $500

total of 20 chips and $1000


Also 10 minutes will make for a much less skilled game and more about luck. You might not get around the table once before the blinds go up.

I would suggest 20-30 min. blind raises.