Tourney Do I have enough chips for a two table tournament? (1 Viewer)

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

I plan to add on a few more barrels of T1000. But I'm heading off to a family Christmas gathering on Sunday. What's the best structure for a tournament for around 15-18 players with this collection of 700 chips.

T25 x 200
T100 x 260
T500 x 100
T1000 x 100
T5000 x 40

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

I wanted to do 15K starting stacks. If I drop it to 14K, I can do this. 16 buyins, plus 6 rebuys, or can use the Rebuy stack size and the last 8 T25 chips if I have over 16 starting players players. I can also make it a freeze out if I have to, but I strongly prefer rebuy tournaments.

I also have a barrel of 25K chips that I could use to buy smaller denoms from big stacks. But I worry that might mess with playability, unless someone has amassed a 50K+ stack.

 

[Knoxymoron]

That looks like a helpful spreadsheet. Is that something you created or something that's floating around for download?

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

That looks like a helpful spreadsheet. Is that something you created or something that's floating around for download?

I created it a couple years ago, then after I posted above, I remembered I had it. So I basically answered my own question. LOL. Still interested in having this critiqued by the tournament experts, since I hardly ever run tournaments.

 

[TheRealStephen12]

Base T25, 15K starting stack 12/12/5/6/1
Rebuys 0/0/0/0/3
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
Break - CU T25s and 2x T100s with 1x T5K
200/400
300/600
400/800
600/1200
800/1600
Break - CU T100s with 3x T5Ks and 4x T1Ks
1000/2000
1500/3000
Break - CU T500s with 8x T5K
2K/4K
3K/6K
4K/8K
6K/12K (Estimated EOT with 16 Players)
8K/16K

 

[allforcharity]

I think the answer is no, and you caught your deficit of T1000. When calculating total chips needed to support a structure, ignore the first 2 denoms because they'll be coloured up eventually.

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

I think the answer is no, and you caught your deficit of T1000. When calculating total chips needed to support a structure, ignore the first 2 denoms because they'll be coloured up eventually.

Nah, I can definitely make it work. I've known for a while that I was going to add on more T1000. Just been allocating chip funds to other higher priority wants lately. I also have a bigger set that I could use, but my Harrah's $500 chips are supposed to show up tomorrow, so I want to take this Paulson set with me instead of my old ceramic set. I also think that having more T500 than I really need can help to make up for the T1000 deficit.

FYI @Knoxymoron I found an error in a formula on the spreadsheet. The 8250 amount for estimated highest level is actually about 15,000. With 15 min levels, I'm looking at about a 5 hour tournament.

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

Base T25, 15K starting stack 12/12/5/6/1
Rebuys 0/0/0/0/3
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
Break - CU T25s and 2x T100s with 1x T5K
200/400
300/600
400/800
600/1200
800/1600
Break - CU T100s with 3x T5Ks and 4x T1Ks
1000/2000
1500/3000
Break - CU T500s with 8x T5K
2K/4K
3K/6K
4K/8K
6K/12K (Estimated EOT with 16 Players)
8K/16K

Thanks. I have a spreadsheet for the levels too. Due to my shortage of T1000, I won't be coloring up the T500s. This also lets me smooth out some of the jumps.

 

[TheRealStephen12]

I think the answer is no, and you caught your deficit of T1000. When calculating total chips needed to support a structure, ignore the first 2 denoms because they'll be coloured up eventually.

Extra T1000 would be nice as spares, but my layout uses exactly 100 of them.

 

[BGinGA]

Having just 100 x T1000 chips for 18 players is a woefully low amount (extra T500s in play will help a little, but not much). Playability will be stressed until field size drops below 10 players remaining.

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

Having just 100 x T1000 chips for 18 players is a woefully low amount (extra T500s in play will help a little, but not much). Playability will be stressed until field size drops below 10 players remaining.

Thanks Dave. I think more realistically it will be 14-16. But won't know for sure until I start to organize the game.

It may all be a moot point, as I'm starting to fear that my Harrah's 500s may not be delivered today...

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

Current status of my Chiproom shipment. They are still saying I'll get it tonight. Any bets? Maybe since it's Christmas-time, they will still put it on a truck this afternoon, but I'm not too hopeful.

Assuming they don't arrive today, I've packed up my larger cards mold T-set and bumped up to 800 chips as follows:

 

[doublebooyah85]

lol asks a question then argues w replies ;-)

I hope the chips arrive and more importantly hope you take it down! Booyah!

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

lol asks a question then argues w replies ;-)

I hope the chips arrive and more importantly hope you take it down! Booyah!

Actually, I asked the question, then answered my own question. No one else offered any other alternative stack options.

One guy said I couldn't do it, after I already demonstrated how I could do it.

There was some discussion. (good thing?) But looking back through my replies, I don't see any arguing. Except maybe for this post.

 

[TheRealStephen12]

No one else offered any other alternative stack options

I added a T1K to each stack to make it T15K stacks,

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

I added a T1K to each stack to make it T15K stacks,

The reason I dropped it to T14K is because I'm short on T1000 chips. So T15K makes my problem worse, not better.

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

I plan to add on a few more barrels of T1000. But I'm heading off to a family Christmas gathering on Sunday. What's the best structure for a tournament for around 15-18 players with this collection of 700 chips.

T25 x 200
T100 x 260
T500 x 100
T1000 x 100
T5000 x 40

More than enough I'd say.

10 players getting : 12/12/4/4
10 players getting : 8/13/4/4

Starting stack = 7500
Starting blinds = 25-25 (300 BB)

You can color-up the 25 with 500 and the 100 with the 1000.

Spoiler: Blinds structure

25-25
25-50
25-75
50-100
75-150
100-200
150-300
## color-up 25 ##
200-400
300-600
400-800
600-1200
800-1600
## color-up 100 ##
1000-2000
1500-3000
## color-up 500 ##
2000-4000
3000-6000
4000-8000
## should end here ##

You can also color-up the 100 & 500 and the same time and have level 1000-3000 instead of 1500-3000.