Tourney Help Wanted with Tournament Structure (1 Viewer)

[omt94]

Planning to host a tournament next month. It will be two tables running in 3 separate pools. 8 player tables to start, consolidating to a single 10 person table after eliminations;
Overall 48 players total, top 3 payout, $50 buy in;

So it would be setup like this;
9am - Pool #1 9am start - (Two 8 player tables)
2pm - Pool #2 2pm start - (Two 8 player tables)
7pm - Pool #3 7pm start - (Two 8 player tables)

The top 3 players from each pool will move to the final table that will be played the next day. Still deciding if I want them to keep stack sizes from the pool play or reset to even stacks for the final table? (Opinions welcome please). So then the next day it would be a 9 person final table until the end.

My question is whats the best way to distribute chips and blind structures for a tournament like this?
I'm gonna put my entire chip stack below (Obviously not using the micro stakes chips but its there for ideas?)
I'm worried it will be very tight on chips for a tournament like this

100 x 0.05
200 x 0.10
300 x 0.25
200 x 0.50
300 x $1
200 x $2
300 x $5
100 x $10
100 x $25
100 x $100
25 X $500
25 X $1,000

Would love to hear everyones suggestions of chips distribution, antes, and blind levels! Thanks so much everyone

 

[omt94]

Also another note to add is I'd like to keep rebuys relatively low, whether thats capping each player at 2 rebuys up to 2hrs or allow rebuys up to the 4th or 5th level

 

[JoeBGo]

You’re only paying 3 spots with 48 players? You should be paying AT LEAST 15%, so 7.2 spots.
I’d probably pay 8.

 

[omt94]

You’re only paying 3 spots with 48 players? You should be paying AT LEAST 15%, so 7.2 spots.
I’d probably pay 8.

Maybe top 5? I want payouts to be decently high but with $50 buy in, it cant be incredibly high

 

[justsomedude]

You're going to be tight on chips.

I think the only way to make this work is to ensure the 9am pool is completed before the 7pm pool starts, because you're going to have to reuse chips in the 7pm pool. Then you'll be forced to reset stacks for the final table in some way.

One way to do this would be to use .25, 1, 5, 25, and 100 chips in an 8, 8, 3, 3, 2, breakdown. That gives everyone 300 in starting chips (600 big blinds). Then you can use a traditional 25/50 tournament struccture... just shift the decimal place over to make the blinds .25/.50, and carry the decimal shift through all the levels.

For this tournament setup you'll only need the .25, 1, 5, 25, 100, 500, and 1k denoms.

Ignore all the other chips.

 

[omt94]

You're going to be tight on chips.

I think the only way to make this work is to ensure the 9am pool is completed before the 7pm pool starts, because you're going to have to reuse chips in the 7pm pool. Then you'll be forced to reset stacks for the final table in some way.

One way to do this would be to use .25, 1, 5, 25, and 100 chips in an 8, 8, 3, 3, 2, breakdown. That gives everyone 300 in starting chips (600 big blinds). Then you can use a traditional 25/50 tournament struccture... just shift the decimal place over to make the blinds .25/.50, and carry the decimal shift through all the levels.

For this tournament setup you'll only need the .25, 1, 5, 25, 100, 500, and 1k denoms.

Ignore all the other chips.

Yes my plan was to have an short enough levels to make each pool end before the next, around 5 hours and then reuse all the chips for each pool. Then reset to even stacks again at the final table the next day. If i reuse all I should be able to have larger stacks which would be preferred i think