[Full Throttle]

Im putting together my first home game tourny. There will be 24 players. $100 plus $10 buy in. Below are the specs. Please let me know if i am forgetting anything or if you have any advice at all. My game is taking place in one week (feb 21st)

$110 + $10 buy in
blinds start at 25/50
each player starts with 3000 in chips
i have 2 1000 identical chip sets
enough padded folding chairs
2 octogon table tops and 1 oval
subway sandwich platters, pretzels, peanuts, soda, sweet tea, water
blinds increase every 30 mins til we color up and they go to 20 min increases when the blinds at 1000/2000
gave everyone detail directions and my number
gave everyone a list of tourny rules, players list, blind structure, payout etc.
have a blind clock on my computer hooked to my big screen
payouts are 1st-40% 2nd-25% 3rd-17.5% 4th-12.5% 5th-5%
plenty of extra decks of playing cards

i cant think about anything im missing. any advice or suggestion?

[wijwij]

If you're taking +$10 from each player, make sure you get a gaming license.

[Full Throttle]

im not actually taking it as a rake or profit. everyone is pitching in for food, drinks, etc.

[Brent]

Originally Posted by Full Throttle

im not actually taking it as a rake or profit. everyone is pitching in for food, drinks, etc.

$240 worth of food and drinks? Must be some spread.

[Coleman]

You're better off not charging the +10 and asking folks to bring their own refreshments.
Less work, less expense, less controversy. In my own poker circle, anything that looks remotely like a rake is considered heresy! Better you should forget about collecting the $240.

Otherwise, I guess you'll likely wrap it up before the blinds hit 2000/4000. Is that timing good?

There's a lot of info you left out, such as blind increments and denominations of chips you are using.

[Full Throttle]

the actual food bill is over 300 so im outa pocket the rest but i dont mind cause its my tourny. hopefully ill place in the money lol.

below is the blind structure and chip denoms

everyone starts with
8 x 25 green
5 x 50 blue
5 x 100 red
4 x 500 black

white chips will be 1000 chip added at last color up.

blinds are below and raised every 30 mins until noted
25/50
50/100 color up green and blue
100/200
200/400
400/800
500/1000
1000/2000 blinds decrease to 20 mins
2000/4000
5000/10000 if it gets that far.

once we are into the money the blinds decrease to every 15 minutes

[Deuce]

Originally Posted by Full Throttle

the actual food bill is over 300 so im outa pocket the rest but i dont mind cause its my tourny. hopefully ill place in the money lol.

below is the blind structure and chip denoms

everyone starts with
8 x 25 green
5 x 50 blue
5 x 100 red
4 x 500 black

white chips will be 1000 chip added at last color up.

blinds are below and raised every 30 mins until noted
25/50
50/100 color up green and blue
100/200
200/400
400/800
500/1000
1000/2000 blinds decrease to 20 mins
2000/4000
5000/10000 if it gets that far.

once we are into the money the blinds decrease to every 15 minutes

That blind schedule seems like it jumps rather quick for a T3000... You may want to add a few rounds like 75-150 and 300-600.

Just my suggestion... I also run monthly 24 man tournies but they are T10,000

[Full Throttle]

Originally Posted by Deuce

That blind schedule seems like it jumps rather quick for a T3000... You may want to add a few rounds like 75-150 and 300-600.

Just my suggestion... I also run monthly 24 man tournies but they are T10,000

I think ill prolly do that on my next one since i already handed out the sheets with all the info. the place i play at locally for fun which is where most of the players are coming to play from actually jumps from 200/400 to 500/1000, its the craziest thing ive ever seen with blinds. thanks for the input. so T10000 means Tourny 10k in chips to start? ive been wondering about this language ive been reading on here the past few days since joining.

[Strange]

Originally Posted by Full Throttle

so T10000 means Tourny 10k in chips to start?

Yes indeed.

[BCR_9er]

T3000 is a little short IMO. I would do a T5000.

24 players X 5,000 = 120,000 chips in play X 4% = 4800 (BB at the end of the game)

Blinds should go:
25-50
50-100
75-150
100-200
150-300
*Color-up 25's
200-400
300-600
400-800
600-1200
800-1600
*Color-up 100's
1000-2000
1500-3000
*Color-up 500's
2000-4000
3000-6000 <--- should end here (17 levels levels including breaks)
4000-8000
6000-12000

20 minute levels will last about 5 hours and 40 minutes.

Let us know how it goes.