Tourney Why start at 25/50 rather than 5/10? (1 Viewer)

[Chicken Rob]

With a T5 tournament set, you need to have a REALLY large field or REALLY large starting stacks to reach a point where T2000 chips would be used (or even T1000 chips). T500 is usually large enough.

All the better. Get rid of T1000 and T2000 chips, and I end up happier.


Butler, if your players would play micro chip tourneys, you can always do a cash set based tourney set starting with T0.25. Then you get the benefits of a T25 starting chip without the need for an awkward transition at the 500/1000 point.

.25/1/5/25/100/500 would be more than enough denoms. I bet an efficient blind structure is out there (too lazy to compute it), and this should be both efficient at the low end and the annoying inflection point of the traditional 500/1000, which in this set would be having a T5 and a T10 chip.

It gets rid of the difficulties for the morons, as most players seem to be able to handle these denoms.

 

[Chicken Rob]

I was making a general comment based on the comparison between the T5s and T25s... You argue for 75/150... Some people would argue for 25/50 instead of 20/40 or 50/100 instead of 40/80, or all of the above... I am NOT arguing which is the best structure for the T5s! I am just using the SAME blind progression to make the comparison as close as possible... Clear?

Yes, but to make the argument as meaningful as possible, you should compare the optimal blind levels for each set against each other.

 

[Poker Zombie]

what starting stacks do you use for both levels that allow for fewer chips starting with T25s?

Our starting stacks vary depending on expected turnout for the night, as my main goals are

• Everyone (except the extremely unfortunate) get to play at least 2 hours
• Games end at 11:45pm-ishx

A 20 player game with T5 as the minimum is T3000
T5 x 15
T25 x 13
T100 x 6
T500 x 2
T1000 x 1

If T25 is the small starting chip, T6000 starts us off
T25 x 12
T100 x 7
T500 x 4
T1000 x 3

As you can see, I have no aversion to covering the table with chips in the early levels, when the bulk of the calling stations are still active. Once we hit the 2 hour mark, the small chips are gone and play ramps up.