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Play cards..... Play horses...... Play Cantebury....... A thirty person tourney is kind of hard to keep track of all of them. It's not taking the chips from you and cashing then at the Park that worries me, it's the fact that any chips a player takes from Cantebury itself could endup in your game. Taking a few chips from there and into your game could give a bit of advantage. But hey, I love those chips. They're half the reason I go to play there in the first place. Oh yeah, and the pony's too.
If I understand correctly:
1. You want nice chips to play with.
2. You have $1000 to spend.
3. You are concerned about using "live" chips as they might walk out.
If this is your situation, buy some nice used Paul-son chips (like from The Vineyard) for your home game. They are Paul-son TH+C so they look and feel great. Due to rarity, they will hold their value over time.
I prefer $100NL tournaments with an every 15/20 minute increase in the blinds (depending on how much time is available to play). A schedule like:
1...2
2...4
3...6
4...8
(final re-buyin opportunity and color up all $1)
5...10
then increase by 5 until tourney end
A reasonable rule of thumb is the tourney will end when big + small blind = 10% of chips in play. The format runs about 3 hours, and allows re-buyins during the first hour.
After the final buy-in and color-up, the $1 chips are then available for use in side games.
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