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[jdAA88]

There's no way I can get up to 18 people, although that would be awesome.
We want the game to last at max 5 hours. I'm thinking of doing what someone told me in another post, start everyone with 5,000 in chips and start the blinds at 25/50?

[Doc T River]

With that little a number of people, I would make it a traditional freezeout as opposed to a shootout. That is you play down to the winner of the tournament as opposed to the top few finishers at a table.

And I would not have at least two tables, I would have it a maximum of two tables. The less number of people you have at each table, the quicker the game is going to go.

And I still don't think you have enough chips. Especially if you want to give everyone an amount equal to 5,000.

You might go to homepokertourney.com/blinds to get some guidance.

[fozzy71]

I deal and run small tourney's at a local card room. The Sunday tourney is $40 buy-in and usually 3-4 tables. We have only been open a couple months - in a town of about 5 or 6 thousand people.

This is how we run em. 20 min blinds, 4k chips. We use 5k chips for the $100 tourney. Each player only starts with 21 total chips. These chip quantities work fine even at a single table tourney of 9 or 10 players. Color up at break every 3 levels. The tourney today was 25 players, and the HU match ended at the 3k/6k level.

[jdAA88]

thanks a lot, this site will definitely help me!