[The Mind Reader]

I play in a NLHE game every Thursday night using this other guy's chips (some cheap walmart/target type set, metal slugged and has values stamped onto each chip), and I've always felt the breakdown and structure were weird. What do you guys think?

His set contains:

150 whites ($1)
100 reds ($5)
150 blues ($10)
50 greens ($25)
50 blacks ($100)

Buyin is $10 and you start with $500 worth of chips. You get:
10 reds ($50)
15 blues ($150)
4 greens ($100)
2 blacks ($200)

So if 10 people play, which is pretty common, every single red and blue chip is used up right out the gate.

Rebuys are allowed any time, though you only get $450 instead of $500 (usually 4 blacks and 2 greens)

Here's the blind structure:

$5-$10 (6:30-7:00)
dinner break
$10-$20 (7:30-8:00)
$20-$40 (8:00-8:30)
$40-$80 (8:30-9:00)
$50-100 (9:00-9:30)
$100-$200 (9:30-10:00)
$200-$400 (10:00-finish)

The strangest thing I find about it is that we don't use the whites at all, so there's always 3 nice big rows of them just sitting in his case. Occasionally we have big games - twice we've had 13 people at start and then 5 rebuys on top... when that happens, we run out of blacks and greens. We've had to use whites as blues in those cases, and/or uses blacks from another set (sometimes I bring my crappy chips just in case).

I dunno. Just wondering what you guys thought of this breakdown / structure and if you had any thoughts on how it could be improved. Though I dunno how open many of the players would be to drastic changes (I'm relatively new to their game)

[links_slayer]

I'm not a fan of the blind increases from level to level. The only times my blinds double is from the 25/50 to 50/100 and (if we get this far) from 1000/2000 to 2000/4000.

You could try more gentle increases (i.e. 1.25 or 1.33 times the previous blinds) in the blinds and make each level shorter (15-20min.)...

Just some ideas. But remember...it's ultimately the host's call.

[smoore]

my advice? Don't say a damn thing. Nobody likes being told how to improve the tournament. This is the voice of experience.

That structure isn't far out of line, just run your own game professionally and then people will come to you for advice.

edit: hrmmm... those blinds DO suck. Doubling blinds make baby jesus cry.

[links_slayer]

Originally Posted by smoore

edit: hrmmm... those blinds DO suck. Doubling blinds make baby jesus cry.

HAHAHA...LOL

[99%evil]

Rotten

[ky70]

I was about to post my thoughts...but then I noticed your name and realized you already know what I'm thinking.

[jbones]

Good tourney structures can be made with this set. T100 for a quick sng, T200 for your average tourney, T300 for a somewhat deepstacked tourney.

Take t300 for example- starting with 150 bb provides a pretty skill intensive tournament
with 30 min levels this structure would be great
1/2
2/4
3/6
4/8
5/10
8/16

t300 starting stack consists of:
15x white $1
9x red $5
14 x blue $10
4x green $25

[Greg B]

Originally Posted by ky70

I was about to post my thoughts...but then I noticed your name and realized you already know what I'm thinking.

Bravo sir, great post!lol