[TobyG]

This is similar to the Thursday night donkaments I play with the guys from work. Depending on how fast everybody wants to play, we'll play either 5 minute blinds or 7 or 7.5 minute blinds. 5 minute blinds has the game run a little more than an hour at most. 7.5 minute blinds put it right at 90 minutes. That's about as long as most of them can tolerate. I deal to keep the action moving with the button shuffling the other deck for me.

Start with T2000 (20x5, 10x25, 5x50, 4x100, 1x1000), and rebuys available until the color-up (end of fourth level for the same amount of starting chips). Number of rebuys per player are usually decided by consensus before things start with one or two being typical. I once tried doing a second color-up to remove the 100s at the end of the eighth level, but it slowed things down too much for everyone, so we dropped it.

Blinds:
5/10
10/20
25/50
50/100
Color-up
100/200
200/400
400/800
500/1000
1000/2000
2000/4000
4000/8000
5000/10000