[tekcor1]

I'm setting up my first tourney, and I figured may as well go big with it. It's going to be a 30 person NLHE T5000 tourney. No rebuys/No add-ons. Please give me comments/suggestions on my starting stacks and blind structure. I want the end time to come in around 4 hours. I was hoping to have 20 minute blinds, but am having trouble doing that without the blinds jumping up in big incriments. I've had a few suggestions from members that I've incorporated already. Any suggestions would be welcome!

I haven't ordered my chips yet, so if you have a better suggestion for a starting stack, I'm all ears. I'm going to order a 1000 chip set so it has to stay within that guideline.

Starting Stacks	# of chips	T$ amount	Total Chips	Needed for Tourney
T25	8	200	240	240
T100	8	800	240	300
T500	8	4000	240	300
Total:	24	5000	720	840

Round	Blinds		Time Elapsed	tM=
1	25	50	:15	2000.0
2	50	100	:30	1000.0
3	75	150	:45	666.7
4	100	200	:60	500.0
5	150	300	1:00	333.3
6	200	400	1:15	250.0
Break	Color out T25		1:30
7	300	600	1:45	166.7
8	500	1000	2:00	100.0
9	800	1600	2:15	62.5
Break	Color out T100		2:30
10	1000	2000	2:45	50.0
11	1500	3000	3:00	33.3
12	2000	4000	3:15	25.0
13	3000	6000	3:30	16.7
14	5000	10000	3:45	10.0
15	8000	16000	4:00	6.3
	12000	24000	4:15	4.2

[CK15c]

I actually just received and posted pictures of my 820 BCC chips. I originally designed them for a T3000 tournament, but have decided to go to T5000 and the set works great for that for 32 players.

The set consists of:

260 x 25's
260 x 100's
140 x 500's
100 x 1000's
60 x 5000's

Starting stack would be:

8 x 25's
8 x 100's
4 x 500's
2 x 1000's

The set I have I can setup the first 3000 chips in the chip racks, and then hand out two 1000 chips to make it a 5000 stack. As for the blinds, perhaps something like this:

15 Minute Rounds
25/50
50/100
100/200
150/300 - Break and Remove 25's
200/400
300/600
400/800
600/1200
800/1600 - Break and Remove 100's
1000/2000
1500/3000 - Optional Removal of 500's or could wait until next break
2000/4000
3000/6000 - Break (This is where my cap for blinds are for 32 players)
4000/8000
6000/12000
8000/16000
10000/20000

This amounts to 4 hours and 15 minutes, then add the time for breaks. You could always take out the 1500/3000 and/or 150/300, but I wouldn't. It's all up to you, this is just what I'll be running for my free bar tournaments this summer.

[4ceps]

running a 30-player tourney in 4 hours is very short and will require less skill than if you did it in 5 or 6 hrs.

in order to fit the criteria, you have to compromise. which is what you did, by making the levels 15 minutes only. if your 4 hr limit is very strict, then your sked looks ok.

otherwise 20 minutes would be better and the game may last 4 to 4.5 hr assuming the game ends when bb is 6000

as an aside my 20 to 22 player game usually lasts 6 hours