[Killians8]

I'm having a game tomorrow that is about twice as large as our average game over the years.

It is a $10 buyin/$10 rebuy/$10 add-on w/ $5 bounty chip game.

Lowering our buyin from $20 to $10 has had a tremendous effect on the increase in pot size. Our group is a wide variety of skill and bankroll.

The payouts are very flat as it's most important to keep the casual players coming back. So we pay about 33% of the group. Here are the payouts I've developed:

8-10 plyrs: (1) 50%, (2) 30%, (3) 20%
11-14 plyrs: (1) 40%, (2) 30%, (3) 20%, (4) 10%
15-17 plyrs: (1) 40%, (2) 25%, (3) 17%, (4) 10%, (5) 8%
18-20 plyrs: (1) 37%, (2) 22%, (3) 16%, (4) 9.5%, (5) 8%, (6) 7.5%
21-23 plyrs: (1) 33.5%, (2) 20.5%, (3) 15.5%, (4) 9.5%, (5) 7.5%,
(6) 7%, (7) 6.5%
24-26 plyrs: (1) 31%, (2) 20%, (3) 14.5%, (4) 9.5%, (5) 7%,
(6) 6.5%, (7) 6% (8 ) 5.5%

Rebuys are allowed through round 5 in order to grow the pot and give ample playing time to the casuals so they'll want to return.

Starting stack is T5000, rebuys are T5000, the add-on is T6000, so a decent value as we want to encourage pot growth from those who usually don't add-on.

The goal w/ the blind schedule is to get a good amount of play during the rebuy round, but also not making it so low that rebuys don't happen.

Our current tournament had a similar first five rounds, but this time the 5th round is 300/600 instead of 250/500. Here is the full blind schedule:

SB BB Rnd Length
25 50 30
50 100 30
100 200 30
BREAK 5
200 400 30
300 600 30
BREAK 10
400 800 20
600 1200 20
1000 2000 20
BREAK 5
1500 3000 20
2000 4000 20
3000 6000 20
4500 9000 20
6000 12000 20
10000 20000 20
15000 30000 20
25000 50000 20

The start is 100BB, but doubles often early to make up for the slow start.

Because it is a rebuy tournament, I've read on homepokertourney.com that the tournament should end around the time that the BB is about 6-10% the total chips in play. This has to be estimated. We've only done one of these $10 tournaments, but last time the pot was 2.5x the initial buy in pot so I estimated about 220,000 chips in play and the 6K/12K blind level is about where we should end. It's looking to be about a 5 hour game or so.

All the ones I've put together before have ended pretty well with our last one seeming to be the most smooth. However, this group is more than twice that size, so I hope that I've made the proper adjustments. After the second break when rebuys are over, the blinds move up sort of gradually for two or three levels, then they had to start progressing so the game would end at a decent hour.

Questions, comments, suggestions? This will be the first time we've needed a third table so we're really excited about the turnout.

P.S. The winner of the previous tournament always has to wear a goofy ass poker medal all night as punishment for winning.

[compudaze]

Looks pretty good to me.

I would keep with the same pattern on the high end as on the low end.

instead of

3000 6000 20
4500 9000 20
6000 12000 20
10000 20000 20
15000 30000 20
25000 50000 20

do

3000 6000 20
4000 8000 20
6000 12000 20
8000 16000 20
10000 20000 20
15000 30000 20
20000 40000 20
30000 60000 20
etc

My only question is about your rebuys/addons?

When do you allow them?? At or below a certain stack size? only when they bust? do you also have addons?



I renectly had a $20 buyin tourney with a similar structure except we started with T10,000 in chips. I offered rebuys ($20 for T10,000 chips) up till round 4, but you had to be busted. No one rebought, all 11 people were still in. I also offered a $10 T5,000 chip addon between rounds 4 and 5. Only had one addon.

I was thinking of lowering my buyin to $10 with starting chipstack of T5,000. Offering a rebuy of T5,000 for $10 for the first 3 rounds if you are at or below T5,000. And offering a $10 add-on between rounds 3 and 4 for another T5,000.