Tourney T25 Tournament Structure for annual league (3 Viewers)

[Spikeh]

Getting a new set of chips at some point this year - likely custom Tinas via a UK group buy.

I think I'm fairly set on this, but wanted to set it out here for opinions.

It's a 5 hour tournament, max 10 players (though things are spicing up, so I may end up running a second table and merging in the third break), the group likes big starting stacks, and I want people to generally stay in until at least L7 (its a friendly home game with no rebuys or late reg - not planning on introducing them either).

Upgrading from what I assume is an cash set (Poker Night Pro from Amazon - 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 chips), which I feel like we've outgrown.

Here goes (/braces). Blind structure:

And the subsequent buying plan for the chip labels and counts (planning on getting a 500 set and reusing 20 plaques I already have for the T10k and T20k chips - so about half of a player's stack). Max starting stack size for a 10 player table is 65,800 (which I change depending on how many people show up):

How's that feel? I did similar with the PNP set, but I really wanted to get rid of those 1, 5 and 10 chips.

 

[TheRealStephen12]

For base T25 tournaments, the most efficient progression is 25/100/500/1000/5000. The set below allows for T10K starting stacks of 12/12/7/5 for up to 10 players, 12/12/5/6 for up to 12 players, and 8/8/4/7 for up to 18 players (with one player receiving 8/8/6/6).

150x T25
150x T100
75x T500
125x T1000

The plaques can be T5000 and used for color ups after the T25s (link on how to color up below if needed, though I'd suggest looking at racing off as it is fairer). If you want to be able to have a full 2-table, 18-player rebuy tournament comfortably, getting 75x T1Ks and 25x T5Ks would be more than enough chips and not require any plaques if you didn't want them (rebuy stacks being 0/0/0/5/1). It should not run more than 6 hours.

For a structure, the following will work fine even if you allowed a rebuy through the first break:

20 Minute Levels, 10 Minute Breaks
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
Break - CU T25s
200/400
300/600
400/800
600/1200
800/1600
Break - CU T100s
1000/2000
1500/3000
Break - CU T500s
2K/4K
3K/6K (EOT 12 entries, 4:50)
4K/8K (EOT 16 entries, 5:10)
6K/12K (EOT 24 entries, 5:30)
8K/16K (EOT 32 entries, 5:50)