Tourney Tourney with cash-set (1 Viewer)

[Marius L]

I've previously been playing mainly cash games, and therefore the first paulson set i decided to buy is for my 1-2 cash game. However I have some friends that prefer tournies so It would be nice to prepare a decent tournament structure with the chips i have as well.

My set consists of the following denoms:
100 1$
400 5$
200 25$
(Total bank of 7100)

I'm looking to make a tourney that lasts for something like 3hours for 7-9 players. (Maybe with rebuys for the first couple of people out)

I see a lot of possibilities from T100 to T500. T500 with something like 10/38/12, or something like T200 with 10/13/5. I basically have no idea of tourney structures, so to me both looks workable. Do any of you have some suggestions to how i should structure this? Blinds would start at 1-1 or 1-2, but not sure how they should go from there.

Would greatly appreciate any comments and suggestions!

 

[200 Motels]

You could use $5 as T5, $25 as T25 and $1 as T100.

20xT5
20xT25
9xT100

Make a blind structure similar to a non-turbo SnG on PokerStars.

5/10
10/20
15/30
20/40
30/60
40/80
50/100
60/120
80/160
100/200

That or buy a cheap tourney set.

 

[BGinGA]

9 players, 3:00 hours
T300 stacks (150BB)
15-minute blind levels

rd sb bb
L1 1 2
L2 2 4
L3 3 6
L4 4 8
L5 6 12
L6 8 16
remove T1 chips
L7 10 20
L8 15 30
L9 20 40
L10 30 60
L11 40 80
remove T5 chips
L12 50 100 ***
L13 75 150
L14 100 200
L15 150 300
L16 200 400

Tournament will typically finish by the end by L12 (3:00 plus breaks). Increasing starting stacks to T500 (10/8/18) increases tournament length to roughly 3.5 hours (L14) plus breaks. If you want the event to finish in under 3 hours (breaks included), then reduce the number of T25 chips to create T200 starting stacks (100BB).


T300 starting stacks
10 x T1
8 x T5
10 x T25
--------
28 chips = T300

required chip set
90 x T1
90 x T5 (includes 18x for color-up of T1 chips)
108 x T25 (includes 18x for color-up of T5 chips)
--------
288 total chips

Your set contains sufficient extra T5 and T25 chips to provide re-buys if desired.

 

[Marius L]

Thanks both! I prefer using the chips with their actuall value rather than using the 1$ as a 100 chip. BGinGA's suggestion seems to have all information i need to organize a nice little tourney. Even with flexible start stacks and tourney time, thats just perfect.