What kind of tourney structure do you guys use?

[keith1174]

We just started a new structure at 1 of our home games. Have 8 regulars and we made this into a year long tourney where you accumulate points and the final tourney starts with your average times a certain amount(ex. 17 pt avg. x 20,000) since we do rebuys and add ons.

1st - 20 pts
2nd - 17 pts
3rd - 14 pts
4th - 12 pts
5th - 10 pts
6th - 8 pts
7th - 7 pts
8th - 6 pts and we also give 2 pts for HH.

Buy in - $20 for 10k , HH - $5 Rebuys/Addons - $10 for 10k, allowed 1 rebuy when busted and another when under 5k in chips in the 1st 2 hours. with 15 minute levels and we use 2/3 decks so we are able to get around at least once at every level in the beginning.

Structure
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200 (clear 25 after)
150/300
200/400
300/600
300/600/50 (end of rebuy period)
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400/800/50 (clear 50 after)
500/1000/100
600/1200/100
700/1400/200
800/1600/200
1000/2000/300
1200/2400/300
1500/3000/400
2000/4000/400 (clear 100 after)
2500/5000/500
3000/6000/500
3500/7000/500
4000/8000/500
4500/9000/500 (clear 500 after)
5000/10000/1000
6000/12000/1000
7000/14000/1000
8000/16000/1000
10000/20000/2000

Usually takes about 5 hours to play and very seldom get passed the 5000/10000 level

After 2 weeks already we have over $200 in end of year tourney where top 3 players for the year will get some money and everyone will get money for the final tourney and we will have a nice feast of food for this event. Plan is to play 26 times for the year so should have over 2500 to pay out at the end.