[on tilt]

I am still trying to work out what Protege chips to buy.

I have a set of Pharaohs I use for T1,500
I also have some Bellagios on the way for T50,000

I want something different and I want to make the best use of the punched inlays so want to focus on the tail end of the set. The $100 chip is my favourite (even though I wasn't a fan of it to start - sorry for ever having doubted you Boon). I also love the $1000 chip.

We have 10 players usually but I would like to be able to cope with 12. I only want the tourney to last 2.5 hours, 3 at the most.

I was thinking of buying the following:

200 x $100
150 x $500
100 x $1000
50 x $5000 (for rebuys)

and using the following blinds schedule but don't know where ante should kick in if my lowest denom chip is $100

100-200
200-400
300-600
400-800
500-1000
600-1200
800-1600
1000-2000
1500-3000
2000-4000
3000-6000
4000-8000
5000-10000
6000-12000
8000-16000

The alternative is to buy 100 x $25 chips as well (8 per player in the starting stack).

Suggestions and thoughts welcome.

THANKS

[Strange]

Breakdown...once again deferring to Lego's fantastic machine.

'few' chips, 12 people, 25 rebuys
120/144/120/50 = 434 total / 24 per player to start

'normal' chips, 12 people, 25 rebuys
180/216/120/50 = 566 total / 31 per player to start

So I think that at 200/150/100/50, you are light on the 1k and heavy on the 100s.

[tastic]

I've run a 10 person T10000 with starting stacks of that consistently ended at 2.5 hrs with the following distribution and blinds (20 minute levels suggested antes in parenthesis, although I don't us them):

20 $100
16 $500

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

[compost kid]

As for antes, I like a guideline of something like antes averaging 1/6 to 1/7 the big blind. Obviously this will be off sometimes as you color up smaller chips, meaning it may be 1/5 sometimes and 1/10 others. WSOP starts with T10,000, look up their ante/blind schedule to get an idea.