[Stevo]

Ok, I have worked too long to put together a playable set of labelled Paulsons for cash and tourney. I have the following chips and denoms and want to accomodate up to a 20 man tourney. I need help with starting chips stacks and a blind schedule.

I have...

200 X $5
200 x $25
100 x $50
100 x $100
50 x $200
50 x $500
50 x $1000
10 x $5000

I'm not that concerned if the 1000 and 5000 get in play although I would like the 1000. Also, yes, I know it's too many denoms, but I wanted a low level cash game with lots of denoms and I'm trying to make it work for a tourney. Also, you try to get 750 hotstamped casino Paulsons with multiple edge spots and make a perfectly playable set. It's just not that easy. Finally, yes, when I have it completely done, I'll post picks.

I was thinking that for a 20 man tourney a starting stack would be something like...
10 x 5
10 x 25
5 x 50
5 x 100
2 x 200
2 x 500

... for a total of 2450 in chips and a 34 chips starting stack. I would start blinds at 5/10 and double them every 15 minutes. Would that work? How long might a tourney like that take? Any other suggestions would be very helpful.

[wijwij]

I'd eliminate the nonstandard T50 and T200 chips from play entirely.

I'd suggest this T2800:

10 x T5 = T50
10 x T25 = T250
5 x T100 = T500
2 x T500 = T1000
1 x T1000 = T1000
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28 chips = T2800

Possible blind structure:

10-20, 15-30, 20-40, 30-60; color up 5s;

50-100, 75-150, 100-200, 150-300; color up 25s;

200-400, 300-600, 500-1000, 800-1600; color up 100s (optional)

1000-2000, 1500-3000, 2000-4000, 3000-6000 ...

To do the color-ups, you'll have to use the T500 chips you have available, since your starting stacks use up all your T25 and T100 chips. (Use a couple of T500s to buy T100s from big winners, and then use T100s to buy T25s from whoever has lots of them. Then you can buy up the T5s.)

Or you may want to use the strategy of having the biggest stack at the table "buy up" the lower denomination chips from the other players, then pay that player for those lower denomination chips using T500 or T1000 chips from the bank when possible.

If you don't like that kind of coloring up, you would have enough chips to cleanly color up if you modified your starting stacks. I'm not sure this would be good, but you could do this to preserve enough T25 to color up the T5s and enough T100s to color up the T25s later:

10 x T5, 8 x T25, 2 x T100, 2 x T500, 1 x T1000 = T2450

But this is only 23 chips per player and maybe not enough T100s in play early on. If you do this, you may want to start at 5-10 instead of 10-20.