[miandsh2000]

posted over at HPT but figured id give you all a crack at it too.

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just got a buddy a new poker genie. about to input final schedule. would like to hear thoughts on one schedule versus the other.
discuss, pros & cons, comments, suggestions...

30min rounds



20min rounds


graphs are just a visual of the blind progressions.

we currently use the 20 min schedule but thinking of switching to the 30 min version after seeing the consistent blind increases and it having a higher patience factor.

[tomb1]

Ddollevoet runs a great game with 25 minute levels, which allows for 2 levels plus a 10 minute break each hour. This works very well, better than 20 minutes.

[Button Potato]

Personally, I would never use 20 minute rounds unless you have a very good non-playing dealer.

[miandsh2000]

Originally Posted by Button Potato

Personally, I would never use 20 minute rounds unless you have a very good non-playing dealer.

agree. luckily we usually have dedicated dealers. have been to tourneys that have taken 20 minutes to do one orbit. not fun.

[links_slayer]

I despise schedules in which the levels double each and every step of the way, even with 30 minute levels....JMHO.

[JoseRijo]

We've had good luck at the MA/NH Challenges using the WPT blind schedule.
I was even able to convince the guys at work to use it at our last home game:

Blind Structure - World Poker Tour

For this schedule, 20 minutes works fine, but 30 minutes takes too long, especially
at the end. I could see doing 30 minutes for the first two levels, then switching
to 20 minutes.

And you're a sissy if you even think about complaining of the antes.

[djexacto]

Antes seem to work better in large tourneys, rather than 1-table sitngo's, just MO.

[EasilyFound]

Most of my group uses 15m blinds. Mostly b/c they like to play as many games a possible during a session, notwithstanding that there is a cash game in between tourneys if we're playing MTT. Myself, I like longer blinds. My STT is 20m, and that is mostly b/c I play on a weeknight and need to end the game within 4 hours, and I don't think 30m blinds would allow for that.

[guinness]

If short table and you want to play either another tournament or cash game then 20. If its a special tournament then no less than 30.

We do 15 or 20 minute levels for a table of 7ish, but thats because we want 3 hours for a tournament and 3 hours for a cash game to follow.

[whataboutj]

Here is the new structure for the league that SunderB runs. The last event had 18 players and ran a hair over 5hours

$5000 starting stacks and 25 minute blind levels

Level	Small	Big
1	25	50
2	50	100
3	75	150
4	100	200
5	150	300
6	200	400
7	300	600
8	400	800
9	600	1200
10	800	1600
11	1000	2000
12	1500	3000
13	2000	4000
14	2500	5000
15	3000	6000
16	4000	8000
17	5000	10000
18	6000	12000

For the 2007 season we had really long games - 5+ hours for 10-12 players using this structure

$10k starting stacks
Levels are all 30 minutes

Level	Ante	Small	Big
1	0	25	50
2	0	50	100
3	0	75	150
4	0	100	200
5	50	200	400
6	50	300	600
7	100	400	800
8	100	600	1200
9	200	800	1600
10	200	1000	2000
11	300	1500	3000
12	500	2000	4000
13	500	2500	5000
14	500	3000	6000
15	1000	4000	8000
16	1000	5000	10000
17	1000	6000	12000

Again this struture resulted in marathon sessions but I thought were a lot of fun and took uber patience.

For the record I missed the first game of the '08 season but in speaking with Erik he said the new structure is better for larger fields.

Just my $.02
J