[BL Striker]

I want to host a T10 000 tournament and I was wondering if I could get some advise on how to run this?

I have:
250 $25
250 $100
100 $500
50 $1000( I will be adding 50 more or maybe adding a $2500 chip)


We always have 8 - 10 players.

My idea is to have the blinds go up every 20 minutes for the first hour and 15 for the second hour and 10 for anything over 3 hours. I would like to try and play 2 games in a night( 2.5 hours each if possible)

The starting stacks that I thought I would use would be as follows:

16 $25
16 $100
8 $500
4 $1000

Would this format work or is there a better one I should use?

Thanks

[harry24]

Hey Striker,
I run a t10000 tourney every week and I run mine as follows:

$100-10
$500-12
$1000-3

I run my blinds 20 min through the tourney and i also like to play 2 games per night so when the blinds get to 500-1000 after that blind i go 700-1400 then straight to 1000-2000. That makes the end of the game go faster. Hope that helps.
Harry

[seymour]

Our T10000 games have between 4-8 people, usually around 5 or 6. All 10 minute blind levels, except for the first which is 15 minutes. I guess with more people, I'd extend that to 20 and 15 minutes. Games usually run for 2-2.5 hours, and normally we'll get in a couple of games a night.

Our starting stacks:
12 x $25 (tried using 16 and 20, found it was really too many chips)
17 x $100
10 x $500
3 x $1000

Blind structure:
1: 25/50
2: 50/100
3: 75/150
4: 100/200
5: 150/300
-- colour up $25 chips --
6: 200/400
7: 300/600
8: 400/800
9: 500/1000
10: 700/1400
-- colour up $100 chips as needed --
11: 1000/2000
12: 1500/2000
13: 2000/4000
14: 2500/5000
15: 3000/6000
...etc.

Most of the time, the game is over around the second break for colouring up, so we don't always bother. Sometimes just change out a few chips at a time in between hands. It's been working well for the months that we've been using this setup.

[Captn_All_In]

Well I think that if you wanted to run this type of tourney in 2.5 hours then you should do something like this...

Stacks:
12 x 25
17 x 100
10 x 500
3 x 1000

Then run your blinds like this...

Longer in the beginning and slightly shorter at the end. (20 min to start then 12 min to end) I know 12 is a funny number but if you get much shorter than during a 12 min level 1 or 2 players may miss a blind completely if there is any kind of "slow" playing, i.e. deep thinkers.

25/50
50/100
100/200
Break-Chip Race 25's
200/400
300/400
400/800
500/1000
Break-Color up 100's (only about half of them in play)
600/1200 (100 Ante)
800/1600 (100 Ante)
1000/2000 (100 Ante)

So if you run 20min levels until the 1st break...then 15min until the second break....then 12 for rest you should finish pretty close to 2.5 hours (maybe even a little sooner depending on the action!)

[BL Striker]

Thanks for the ideas guys. Good stuff.

[PFunk]

What do you all do for the rule on color ups?

I am used to just running cash games at my home game, but tonight we did a T10,000 with 8 players, paying out 1st-3rd....All went over quite well except there was some confusion on the color up issues.

For instance, if a player has a single $25 chip, do you color them up to 100...or just take it off the table?

Same with 100's....If a player has (2) 100 chips...Do you give them a 500 chip when time comes....or are they required to have atleast (3) for a color up?

Basically, what is a standard ruling on this type of thing?

thanks-



P.

[seymour]

There's a section in Robert's Rules of Poker on it, but I haven't really read it very closely. Usually we only get to colour up the 25 chips anyway, and don't bother with the 100 chips. If two people are left with 2, we'll usually flip a coin to see who gets the black chip. Or if one person has 2 and two others have one each, the black usually goes to the guy with the 2. Not the "proper" way, but it works well enough for such a low value chip. At that point, a different in your chip count of 100 doesn't make much of an impact.

[Captn_All_In]

PFUNK, and Seymour...

Well you need to do a chip race. Works like this in a nutshell:

Everybody with a left over chip gets a card. All the chips are combined to form the next larger denom (meaning 4- 25's = 1- 100) the guy with the highest card by rank then by suit gets to keep it.

Here's an example:

Player A: 1- T25, Player B: 1- T25, Player C: 2- T25

Deal cards- Player A: Player B: Player C:

Black T100 goes to Player A because he has the highest rank card.

***Edit*** because I ran short on time this AM!!

If you have enough chips to form 2 higher denoms then the highest rank card gets the first chip and the second highest rank gets the second chip. 1 player can only earn 1 chip no matter what the rank of his other cards.

Also if 2 players get the same rank card it is decided by suit here's an example:

Player A: gets Player B gets

Player B get this chip because the suits are Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs (or Clubs-Diamonds I will need to check).



May not seem entirely fair at first but the alternative is that you give everyone a black chip. Both and A and B would get T75 in chips when C only gets T50.

Theoretically the guy with the most cards has the greatest chance of winning the race, but it doesn't always happen like that.

Hope that helps some.

[mtvernonbryan]

I Run a monthly tournament series of my own and all of last year I did $10000. Eached tournament lasted around 6 hours. I usually have between 25-29 people. This year I changed it up. Im starting with $5000 in chips and I took the blind structure straight from the WSOP $5000 event, with only two changes. My blinds go up every 20 minutes, and I also added $25-$25 blind for the first one. After the first tourney with these changes, I realized I really didnt need to add the 25-25 but I supposed I'll keep it. The tournament ran a little smoother than last year, but It still took around 4 hours to complete. My chip breakdown was as follows:
$25--8
$100--8
$500--4
$1000--2

I also use a point system that I came up with on my own. If you would like to know it, let me know!

[tastic]

I've had success running 2 to 2.5 hr 10-person tourneys using T10000 with the following...2 per night:

per player: 40 chips
25 $100s
15 $500s

blinds change every 15 minutes:

100/100
100/200
200/400
300/600
500/1000
1000/2000
1500/3000
2000/4000
3000/6000
4000/8000