[Captn_All_In]

I am interested in opinions on what a T1500- 100 man tourney [no rebuys]ending blind might be. I would guess some where close to 5K/10K.

Anybody have thoughts?

Anybody been in a Foxwoods 250 man tourney? What were the blinds near the end?

Thanks for any and all info.

Captn

[erikk]

I think 5k/10k is a little low but a lot depends on how fast the blinds are and the structure of them. My guess is 8k/16k at the end.

[Matthew]

150k in play - 5k/10k +/- range for blinds at the end seems logical.

Tough to judge - a lot is based on relative stack sizes and types of players

Heads up with even stacks 75k each - stealing a 10k blind is very lucrative.

[tomb1]

I've read a couple of rules of thumb for this:

1. When the BB equals the starting stack. In this case, that would be 750/1500, but that seems awfully low to me. I think this rule is more meaningful with a smaller tourney (< 20 players?).

2. When SB+BB equals about 10% of the total chips in play -- with 100 players, that would be at the 5000/10000 level. This makes much more sense to me. And of course that's exactly what where Capt started!

But the style of play will always have an impact....

[smoore]

I've never gone past 2000/4000/200 in the 50 or so 'stars 180 person tourneys I've played. I know that antes really throw a screwball in the mix but it's the info I gots

[BigKyle]

Antes shorten things considerably.

[smoore]

... and make life worth living.

viva la antes!

[tomb1]

Well, my comments apply to live tourneys only. Online has so many more hands per minute (and such a different group of players at low/med buy-ins).

[smoore]

Same players, different style from my experience. For some reason, they value a live buyin more than they do an online buyin. Travel, actual chips, intimidation, the fact that there's not another tournament starting in 2 minutes, whichever reason for them. They play much more tightly and a good deal more weakly live than online, IME. Same donks though

But anyway... I figured I'd just throw that out there as food for thought, it's not meant to be an actual recommendation for this particular situation.

[compost kid]

Antes are crucial in big tournaments. They allow for post-flop play later in the tourney, while still getting money into the middle.

If you do not have antes, as you near the bubble the play can tighten up since only the blinds have anything invested in the hand. Antes force the really tight player to make a move much sooner, which generates action.

What the antes are relative to the big blind differs greatly from tournament to tournament, but at the WSOP it averages out to roughly 1/8 the big blind. Obviously the ante to BB ratio changes at each level since the small chips have been colored up making it impossible to maintain a strict ratio.