Tourney STT BBA (7 Viewers)

[Defarse]

Hosting next STT game next Saturday. We've been playing STTs since college in 2003 with the same 9 guys. We have never used antes. I want to add a BBA just to keep in compliance with casino/online play and I suppose juice the pot and induce more action? Besides having enough chips/change, etc. is there a reason not to do this? I've seen people say to not use an ante if less than 15 players, why is that? How will adding a BBA to a STT change the game? We use 25,000 starting stack with 10/8/10/2 of 100/500/1000/5000. Will game end sooner?

 

[Legend5555]

I always use it from level 1 no matter the tourney size. There is no reason not to if you want to keep it similar to casino/tour tournaments. It in theory speeds things up. In practice, unless people know how to adjust to an ante, it doesn't make much difference.