[Slagar]

I am the TD for my college poker club so it is my job to figure out tournament structures. We have a few types of tournaments, members only (people who have paid their dues), mini-tournaments, and major tournaments. This is what I am thinking for the blind structure, it is a modification of the P* SNG structure (no antes).

15 minute levels
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
etc.

Member only tournaments will be around 18-30 people, I'm thinking T1500. Mini-tournaments 10-16 people T2000. Major tournaments 50-60 people, T1500.

I would appreciate any comments/suggestions.

[Captn_All_In]

Looks good. You may want to bump it up a little when you have your 50-60 man tourney. (Start at 15-30, and make them a little more aggressive, or you will end up with a 7-8 hour monster)

[danopoker]

With the structure you have, you only need $5 chips for the first two rounds -- a little odd. Also the BB gets to be 10% of your stack pretty quick. You might consider doing T1000 and making the blinds start at 5/10 or 10/15. Maybe:

5/10
10/15
15/25
20/40
30/60
color up reds
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
color up greens
200/400
300/600
500/1000
800/1500
1200/2500
color up blacks and purples
2000/4000
3000/6000
5000/10000
etc.

I use a similar setup for tournaments in the ballpark of 20-30 people and it works well. This should give a relatively slow start but the blinds pick up after the first 90 minutes or so which forces action if the tournament has been progressing conservatively so far. The smart players will see this coming and start to loosen up before the blinds get aggressive.

For the smaller tournaments of 10-16 you might consider 20-minute rounds instead of more chips.

Just my thoughts. Good luck.

[Slagar]

We had a 14 person tournament on Friday and had T2000 starting stacks. It seemed to work pretty well, I didn't hear any complaints about the structure. It took about half an hour for the first person to go out and lasted about two and a half hours. We want the smaller tournaments to last 2-3 hours and the larger one to be 3-4 hours.

The only complaints I heard all night were about my Copags, "too slippery" "index too big." I just got a setup with regular index so hopefully that will take care of that complaint.

Thanks for the suggestions, I may up the first blind for the larger tournament.

I don't think we'll have much more than 30 people unfortunately, the other members of the poker club (specifically the publicity chair) are not doing their jobs to get this thing going and it is getting really annoying. We were originally supposed to have this student/staff tournament last Friday, it keeps getting pushed back because they are not contacting the professors or publicizing the tournament.