[tonypap]

Having a 8-10 person tourney this weekend. I really want to use my St. Charles NCVs. 1 buyin, with no rebuys. I needed some advice on how many chips to give out...what should each be worth...what would be the best blinds schedule to use?

Since the chips are all 1 color, there would only be 1 denomination. I've seen tourneys on TV that are played like this, but haven't had any experience of my own.

Your input/advice would be very much appreciated!

CT TO THE RESCUE !!!

[Harlequin011]

You've got about 300 of them right?

Call them 100s and give out 25 per person.

[wijwij]

If your chips are all one color, then it doesn't matter what denomination you call them.

I'd call them "1" each. But you could call them 100, 1000, or 10,000 for all it matters.

For a blind structure, look at T100 or T200 structures online. They usually start 1/2.

If your tourney is T25, as suggested above, it is very short stacked. Maybe start with 1/1 to help compensate a bit.

1/1
1/2
2/4
3/6
4/8
5/10
7/15
10/20
15/30

Eight or nine levels should be enough to finish a single table tourney.

Note: The above tourney is almost a luck-fest, as many people will be desperate and going all-in at the third level. I'd really recommend you add another chip to your play, and denominate the two kinds of chips as T25 and T100. For example, a T2000 tourney using 16 x T25 + 16 x T100 for each player. You can easily find blind structures that start T25/T25, T25/T50, T50/T100, etc.

[bludevilstud5]

I think the 1 or 100 is best. Probably 1's I would do. I would go blinds like this, if you are only going to give out 25-30 chips:

1/1
1/2
2/3
3/4
4/5
5/6
6/7
7/8
8/9 +1 ante

[tonypap]

Originally Posted by Harlequin011

You've got about 300 of them right?

the sick-poker-chip-addict that, I currently own 1100 of these, HQ!!! For some reason, I just REALLY like these chips!!!


-thanks for the 411

[jbones]

If you only have 300 I really don't see a good structure coming out of this (unless it's for just 3 players)

[jbones]

Oops posted before you had posted again. With 1100 you can have a real fun tournament with each person having a monstrous stack of chips. I'd recommend:

T100 (each chip being worth 1, if you want to make it a T10000 and have each chip be worth 100 that MIGHT instigate a little more action)

I'd do:
Starting stacks: 80 chips
Blinds
1/1
1/2
2/4
3/6
4/8
5/10
.. etc

pretty straightforwards

[tonypap]

Originally Posted by bludevilstud5

I think the 1 or 100 is best. Probably 1's I would do. I would go blinds like this, if you are only going to give out 25-30 chips:

1/1
1/2
2/3
3/4
4/5
5/6
6/7
7/8
8/9 +1 ante

I was actually thinking something like this. Probably give out 30 chips per player...call them $1000s, just to keep it more amusing...$1s just sounds boring!!!

[jbones]

Ehh then you're only starting with 30x the BB, and after half an hour the average stack is in the red zone. That's not going to be much of a "poker" game.

[plagueboy]

Yeah, this is going to be about as long as a standard T1000 tourney if you give 100 chips per player.

However much you make the chips worth, you may want to use something like this many chips for your blinds:

1/2
2/4
3/6
5/10
7/14
10/20
15/30
20/40
30/60
40/80
50/100
60/120
80/160
100/200
150/300
200/400
300/600

With 15-20 mins levels.