[erikk]

Check out my tournament page here: http://ekroner.net/poker.htm

I've run this tourney once with 40 people and it was great am planning on doing it quarterly. Most of the rules were taken from a friend's poker tournament and I'm just looking for people's input on what they think. Am I missing anything? Is anything wrong? Do you like the side prizes? Do you like the bounty chip? Do you have any other side/bounty/etc ideas to make it more interesting for people who might get knocked out, out of the money? etc

I'm especially interested in people's opinion on the blind structure. It went well for the first time and I think I like how it played but I'm always looking for input (and I wasn't in very far so I didn't really get a feel for the blind structure the whole way). I did read the thread about blinds and such (and posted my structure there) but most everyone was talking about smaller tourneys and almost no one used the T10,000 setup (starting with $25/$50 blinds) or if they did they just started with much higher starting blinds. The tourney ran 6+ hours and was just about perfect in terms of length.

Really the tournament is much more relaxed than the rules seem to imply (I don't think we actually looked at the rules the entire first time) but I'd like a good set of rules/etc to be able to point to for new players and in case we ever have a disagreement.

Any comments appreciated.

[CaptLego]

with minor tweaks to your blinds schedule, you could colorup the green chips at the first break, and the black chips at the third break

[erikk]

that's a really good idea. I never even thought of that. We just colored up at some random point and I didn't even think about trying to schedule it at a pre-assigned break.

EDIT: made a small tweak to accomodate that.

Originally Posted by CaptLego

with minor tweaks to your blinds schedule, you could colorup the green chips at the first break, and the black chips at the third break

[SpaceMonkey]

Is the adjustment updated to your site yet? I still see 150/300 and 250/500 up there after the break. You should change this to 100/200 and 200/400.

You also have some weird blinds late: 9000/18000; 13000/26000; etc.

Standard blinds would be:
8k/18k
10k/20k
12k/24k
15k/30k
20k/40k
25k/50k
30k/60k
40k/80k
60k/80k

Often the 12/24 level will be thrown out to shorten a tournament (and/or the 25/50).

[erikk]

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

Is the adjustment updated to your site yet? I still see 150/300 and 250/500 up there after the break. You should change this to 100/200 and 200/400.

You also have some weird blinds late: 9000/18000; 13000/26000; etc.

Ok it's not nice to point out the stupidity of strangers. LOL. I was stupid, I changed 125 to 150 thinking that's the end of those 25 chips but didn't even think that I had no 50 chips. I made some changes incorporating the more common blinds (I just made up the first set).