[Savior17]

I don't know...but I have 2 engineering degrees and a law degree, but this still evades me. Maybe I just don't have enough experience.
I want to have a tourney set to handle 18 players at most.
I have the following PNY chips:
200 x $25 = $5,000
200 x $100 = $20,000
50 X $500 = $25,000

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Chips – 18 people
25 x 8 = 200 (8x18 = 144 chips for $3,600)
100 x 8 = 800 (8x18 = 144 chips for $$14,400)
500 x 2 = 1000 (2x18 = 36 chips for $18,000)
2000

Color up:
$25s: $3,600 = 36 X 100. 36 + 144 = 180.
$100s: $14,400 = 29 x 500. 29 + 36 = 65. I am short 15 chips, but you can’t color the $100s up entirely – see below.

T2000 – 18 people
Level SB BB
1 25 50
2 50 100
3 75 150
4 100 200 (color up $25s)
5 200 400
6 300 600
7 400 800
8 500 1000 (color up some $100s and put the rest of the $500s in play)
9 600 1200
10 700 1400
11 800 1600
12 900 1800

At 20 min levels, this is about a 4 hour tourney.

Is this too tight???

[blobe]

i think you have to edit your post and uncheck "use smileys" mate

[Savior17]

Originally Posted by blobe

i think you have to edit your post and uncheck "use smileys" mate

Ugh. I am like the ChipTalk.net retard poster of the week.

[jdunford]

Originally Posted by Savior17

Ugh. I am like the ChipTalk.net retard poster of the week.

LOL!! At least this thread didn't crash my work PC...

Regarding the tourney, here's my T2000 structure:

http://individual.utoronto.ca/jdunford/CPT/CPT-S3.pdf

A T2000 with those chips makes it a little short-stacked (only 40xBB to start). But with only 450 chips for 18 players, there's not much you can do about that (other than add a 25-25 level to the beginning).

Any chance you could add some $5s to the set? Or some more $500s to make it a T5000 tourney?

[Savior17]

Originally Posted by jdunford

LOL!! At least this thread didn't crash my work PC...

Regarding the tourney, here's my T2000 structure:

http://individual.utoronto.ca/jdunford/CPT/CPT-S3.pdf

A T2000 with those chips makes it a little short-stacked (only 40xBB to start). But with only 450 chips for 18 players, there's not much you can do about that (other than add a 25-25 level to the beginning).

Any chance you could add some $5s to the set? Or some more $500s to make it a T5000 tourney?

I can add $5s. I have 2 racks. But I don't have $1000 ($1000 PNY will cost waaayy too much). I wont have any rebuys - It will just be a freezeout.
I will post a revised structure within the thread, not in the OP because I still want feedback.

[Savior17]

Revised based of JDunford's advice.
How does this look??

I have the following PNY chips:
200 x $5 = $1000
200 x $25 = $5,000
200 x $100 = $20,000
50 X $500 = $25,000


Chips – 18 people
5 x 10 = 50 (10x18 = 180 chips for $900)
25 x 6 = 150 (6x18 = 108 chips for $2,700)
100 x 8 = 800 (8x18 = 144 chips for $$14,400)
500 x 2 = 1000 (2x18 = 36 chips for $18,000)
2000

Color up:
$5s: $900 = 36 x $25. 36 + 108 = 144. I have enough.
$25s: $2,700 = 27 X $100. 27 + 144 = 171. I have enough
$100s: $14,400 = 29 x $500. 29 + 36 = 65. I am short 15 chips, but you can’t color the $100s up entirely – see below.

T2000 – 18 people
Level SB BB
1 5 10
2 10 20
3 20 40
4 35 70
(color up $5)
5 50 100
6 75 150
7 100 200
8 150 300
9 200 400
10 300 600
11 400 800
12 500 1000
(color up some $100s and put the rest of the $500s in play)
13 600 1200
14 800 1600
15 1000 2000

[jdunford]

Originally Posted by Savior17

I have the following PNY chips:
200 x $5 = $1000
200 x $25 = $5,000
200 x $100 = $20,000
50 X $500 = $25,000

Chips – 18 people>>
5 x 10 = 50 (10x18 = 180 chips for $900)
25 x 6 = 150 (6x18 = 108 chips for $2,700)>>
100 x 8 = 800 (8x18 = 144 chips for $$14,400)>>
500 x 2 = 1000 (2x18 = 36 chips for $18,000)>>
2000>>
>>

Well, obviously I like this structure better...

But I'd hand out 10, 10, 7, 2 for starting stacks. You won't quite have enough $25s to "cleanly" colour-up the $5s, but generally you can colour-up some of the $5s directly to $100s (especially if you encourage players to sell their < 20-high stacks of $5s to the big-stack).

Man, you do realize you'll have to post some pics from this tourney. That's a lot of PNYs in play... Should make for some nice pr0n!

[Savior17]

Originally Posted by jdunford

Well, obviously I like this structure better...

But I'd hand out 10, 10, 7, 2 for starting stacks. You won't quite have enough $25s to "cleanly" colour-up the $5s, but generally you can colour-up some of the $5s directly to $100s (especially if you encourage players to sell their < 20-high stacks of $5s to the big-stack).

Man, you do realize you'll have to post some pics from this tourney. That's a lot of PNYs in play... Should make for some nice pr0n!

Yes, as to cleanly coloring up the $5, but you have a good suggestion. My group loves massive chip stacks. When we first started playing 50c/$1, I used 2 racks of 25c chips and about 300 Cherries for the 50s and mostly $1s. It is a huge pain, though, at the end of the night to count and pay out. Now I am using mush smaller stacks.

I hope to get Sunday tourneys after football season ends. It is hard to get these guys together for a tourney - they prefer cash games.

[TheSnake]

I entered your breakdown in my PokerGenie. Here is the result:
T2000, 10x $5, 10x $25, 7x $100, 2x $500, 20 min., 18 people ~ 4h

[Savior17]

Originally Posted by TheSnake

I entered your breakdown in my PokerGenie. Here is the result:
T2000, 10x $5, 10x $25, 7x $100, 2x $500, 20 min., 18 people ~ 4h

Cool. Thanks