[Willy Gee]

Hello Folks:

I'm putting on 30 person tournament. The winner will receive a buyin to a Foxwoods WPT event.

I've set aside up to 10 hours for the tournament. I'd like it if everyone got 200 big blinds to start. Thus, if the initial blinds are 25-50, everyone would get 10,000. If it's 5-10, then 2,000. You get the idea.

Any recommendations on a structure? Also, how many chips should I bring, assuming color ups?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Willy Gee

[BigKyle]

You will need plenty of play since I assume it will be a decent buyin and a big prize on the line. You may consider using antes, since that will be the case in the WPT tourney, and I think it should be good practice for that. Anyway, I suggest this (with antes):

20x T25
10x T100
7x T500
5x T1000
2x T5000
44 chip worth T20,000

Blind levels 30 minutes long
50-100
100-200
100-200-25 10 minute break
150-300-25
200-400-50
300-600-75 10 minute break and color up 25's
400-800-100
600-1200-200
800-1600-200
1000-2000-300 10 minute break and color up 100's
1500-3000-500
2000-4000-500 5 minute break and color up 500's
3000-6000-1000
4000-8000-1000
6000-12000-2000 10 minute break
8000-16000-2000
10000-20000-3000 5 minute break and color up 1000s
15000-30000-5000

That is a 600-minute, or 10-hour tournament with the included breaks. You will need this many chips

600 T25
300 T100
240 T500
180 T1000
84 T5000

You use the 500's to color up the 25s, the 1000s to color up the 100s, and the 5000s to color up the 500s.

[Willy Gee]

Thanks so much for the prompt response. That's a lot of chips. I'll get on it.

[BCR_9er]

Did you want antes?

[Willy Gee]

I did not anticipate using antes. I've never used them before, other than in a casino tournament.

I guess it would be easier without them.

[BCR_9er]

I like using T10,000's

T10,000 X 30 players = 300,000 X 4% = 12,000 (game should end when the BB is 12,000)

Blinds 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
*Colou-up 500's
2000-4000
3000-6000
4000-8000
6000-12000 <--- game should end about here.
8000-16000
10000-20000

It should last about 19 levels (including breaks). Each level being 30 minutes should last 9 hours 30 minutes.

Hope this helps and good luck!

[UsIreland]

Well I've developed a schedule for you without Ante's, I hope you like it, if you have any problems with it let me know and I can regig it for you.

Since your going to be playing for 10hours you'll need a 1hr lunch break which means 9 hr playing time.

Starting Stack:
12 x 25
12 x 100
7 x 500
5 x 1000

Blind Schedule without Ante's
Blind TIme: 25min
Round-Small-Big
1-25-50
2-50-100
3-100-200
4-150-300
Break 5min Colour Up 25's
5-200-400
6-300-600
Break 5min
7-400-800
8-500-1000
9-600-1200
10-800-1600
Break 1hr 5min Colour Up 100's
11-1000-2000
12-1500-3000
13-2000-4000
14-2500-5000
Break 5min Colour Up 500's
15-3000-6000
16-4000-8000
Break 5min
17-5000-10000
18-6000-12000
19-8000-16000
Break 5min Colour Up 1000's
20-10000-20000
21-15000-30000
22-20000-40000
23-25000-50000
24-30000-60000

Colour Up's:
25's: Use 90 100's (bring 100 just incase)
100's: Use 90 500's (bring 100 just incase)
500's: Use 30 5000's (bring 35 just incase)
1000's: Use 30 5000's (bring 35 just incase)

Total Chips Required:
360 x 25's
460 x 100's
310 x 500's
150 x 1000's
70 x 5000's
Total: 1350

I'd thoroughly Recomend that you get a program like tournament director and use it to display the blind schedule on a big screen/ Multiple small screens

Are you going to have dedicated dealers at this event or just pass the deal?
Will you have a dedicated tournament director or will you play and tournament direct?

Regards
Ian

[Double Eagle]

I like the Tex's Tears structures. Take a look at this one.

[jsmithjr732]

Homepokertourney.com has some tools that'll help you customize your tourney based on # of players, starting stack and number of chips. I did that when I set-up my 20-person league tourney a couple years ago. Worked out very well.

Are you going to use poker software to manage the game? If so, which one? With 30 people, I would think that would be a must.

[BigKyle]

without antes I would use USIreland's structure