[UsIreland]

The final blinds schedual has been drawn up. Its a combination of all your suggestions and my ideas. Here is the intended schedual:
$100 - $200 $0
$200 - $400 $0
$300 - $600 $0
$300 - $600 $100
$500 - $1,000 $100
$750 - $1,500 $100
$1,000 - $2,000 $100
$2,000 - $4,000 $250
$3,000 - $6,000 $500
$4,000 - $8,000 $1,000
$5,000 - $10,000 $1,000
$6,000 - $12,000 $1,000
$8,000 - $16,000 $1,000
$10,000 - $20,000 $2,000
$20,000 - $40,000 $2,000
$40,000 - $80,000 $5,000
$50,000 - $100,000 $10,000
$100,000 - $200,000 $10,000
$200,000 - $400,000 $20,000
$400,000 - $800,000 $20,000
$500,000 - $1,000,000 $25,000


As you can see after about 20,000-40,000-2,000 the blinds start to get ultra aggressive. At the 20k-40k, 2k level we will have been playing for 3.45min so after that we want it over so the blinds have to become ultra aggressive. With this Schedual I believe the tournament will end around the 4hour mark. Would this be a fair estimate?

Thanks
Regards
Ian

[Double Eagle]

Originally Posted by UsIreland

With this Schedual I believe the tournament will end around the 4hour mark. Would this be a fair estimate?

Rule of thumb is the tournament will end at about the time that the big blind equals the intial starting amount of chips. I have found this to be consistantly close.

Good luck!

[Captn_All_In]

Originally Posted by UsIreland

With this Schedual I believe the tournament will end around the 4hour mark. Would this be a fair estimate?

I would think it would be close. Really depends on how many initial players and rebuys you end up with.

Overall, I think it looks pretty good.

Good Luck!

[compost kid]

i was just looking at your intended final blind schedule and I noticed that you have a 750 - 1500 level, yet no other level requires a $50 chip. Perhaps you could change this to 700-1500 to avoid this.

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by compost kid

i was just looking at your intended final blind schedule and I noticed that you have a 750 - 1500 level, yet no other level requires a $50 chip. Perhaps you could change this to 700-1500 to avoid this.

Actually, a couple levels before that one too could be rounded out:

From
$300 - $600 $0
$300 - $600 $100
$500 - $1,000 $100
$750 - $1,500 $100
$1,000 - $2,000 $100

To
$300 - $600 $0
$400 - $800 $100
$600 - $1,200 $100
$800 - $1,600 $100
$1,000 - $2,000 $100

[Dimes]

Originally Posted by compost kid

i was just looking at your intended final blind schedule and I noticed that you have a 750 - 1500 level, yet no other level requires a $50 chip. Perhaps you could change this to 700-1500 to avoid this.

He has a 250 chip, so no need to change that level.

TT

[Captn_All_In]

Yea he was dead set on the $250 chip.

[UsIreland]

Hello Lads

Right the tournament went well last night we made good money for the group giving out 500euro in prize money.

The Tournament used the last blind schedual i posted above and the buy in's were as follows:
5x T100
6x T250
6x T1000
1x T2000

Before I went out I had made up 56buy in's of T10000. I had 24players and during the buy back period (about 2hr's [i was not too strict on the 15min for blinds etc]) I had to make up more bags of T10000. When it came to add-on's Almost 100% of people took an add-on.

Now some of you will look at the buy in and think 18chips, thats far too few. Well the thing was after about an hour the amount of chips on the tables was almost unmanagable. I was actually going around and taking whites, red's and blues off the table's so as the players could reasnibly play.

Since it took almost 2 hours until the white T100 was ment to be removed I was thinking that infuture it would be better to Have them come out much faster and have different bags for re-buys than for buy-in's.

This is my proposed blind schedual (i was thinking of droping ante's) for the next tournament:
Small - Big
100 - 200
200 - 400
250 - 500 (Remove White T100)
500 - 1000
750 - 1500 (Remove Red T250)
1000 - 2000
2000 - 4000
3000 - 6000 (Remove Blue T1000)
5000 - 10000
8000 - 16000 (Remove Green T2000)
10000 - 20000
20000 - 40000
25000 - 50000 (Remove Black T5000)
50000 - 100000
75000 - 150000

The buy-in would be:
5x T100
6x T250
6x T1000
1X T2000

The Re-buy would be:
4x T250
5x T1000
2x T2000

Dispite some suggesting that this would be a crap shoot, the best 6players were at the final table of 7 and 5 out of the best 6 won the money.

Please let me know what you guys think.
Regards
Ian

[Captn_All_In]

Glad to hear that it went well for you! Good luck with your future tournies!!