A real-life home tourney structure and results
 

Since there have been a number of posts lately about this, I'm posting the structure and results from a recent 24 player NLHE home tourney (no rebuys).


Started 8:13 p.m. Start stack T5000+ (a few had more, as high as T5600)
20 minute rounds, barring occasional timekeeper reset error.

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>1 - T50/100
2- T75/150
3 - T100/200
4- T150/300 20/24 players left
5- T150/300 25 ante

10:00- 10:10 break 13 players left

6- T200/400 50 ante
7- T300/600 50 ante 12 players
8- T400/800 50 ante

Mid round, we had the final table of 9 players form up shortly after 11 p.m. ~T13,600 avg stack, low 3250 high 22950

After drawing for seats, coloring up some chips and getting restarted with 11 minutes left in Round 8 (at 11:19 p.m.)

9- T500/1000 100 ante 8 players
Break- color up green chips

10- T600/1200 100 ante
11- T800/1600 200 ante 6 players
12- T1000/2000 300 ante 5 players ~T25k avg stack
13- T1500/3000 500 ante 4 down to heads-up
14- T2000/4000 1000 ante ~T63k avg,stack
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The original goal of the structure was to end after around 4 1/2 hours. It ended almost an hour later, at 1:39 a.m.

We went from 3 to 2 tables during Round 5, in order to free up a bigger table for the cash game that was growing.

Re: A real-life home tourney structure and results
 

Good idea. Here's from my league, as well: http://www.p7a77.net/pitr/pitr-season2.html ... This shows the results of ten tournaments. Schedule isn't posted, but pretty easy to figure out if you scroll through the tournament histories. Also gives an idea of how long things take.

We start with T2k in chips with unlimited rebuys at T2k or below for two hours (so you can start doublestack). The first break is for dinner. At the second break, rebuys end and there's a T3k addon.

I'm not totally thrilled with the structure as there are a couple of big jumps too early on (most notably from 100/200 to 200/400), but I didn't want to change it mid-league. Next league we'll change it up, but overall it still works fairly well, with a good balance of luck/skill/time. We start by 7pm and the final table is usually done by 1:30am.

Re: A real-life home tourney structure and results
 

How did some people have bigger starting stacks?

Re: A real-life home tourney structure and results
 

I'm not a fan of posting real names and winning amounts, for several reasons.



BTW- how did someone get eliminated DURING the break? Prop bet?

"07:39 Break 1 Level change
08:04 Break 1 (MJ) eliminated by KP "

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How did some people have bigger starting stacks?

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Assuming you were addressing me, not pfap:

- First three knockouts in previous tourney get Bad Luck Bonus chips in current tourney

- Players get bonus chips for contributing efforts. Some people got chips for helping rework the tourney structure.

- We had a costume theme possible. Players who wore costumes got bonus chips for this tourney.

Make sense?

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I'm not a fan of posting real names and winning amounts, for several reasons.

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Yeah, and I also revealed my domain, lots of personal info! But most of them are just first name last initial, so I doubt you'll be able to track these folks down to mug them for their $100 tourney winnings.

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BTW- how did someone get eliminated DURING the break?

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C'mon, Larry, you're a reasonably intelligent person. In your tournaments, all hands magically end the second before the timer goes off? And you're able to enter the data in the computer right at that moment, too? Think these things through sometimes...

I like your bonus ideas. I'd implement them, but our next league is for WSOP, so it won't go well. When I get our bigger weekend tournies going, though, definitely.

Re: A real-life home tourney structure and results
 

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How did some people have bigger starting stacks?

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Assuming you were addressing me, not pfap:

- First three knockouts in previous tourney get Bad Luck Bonus chips in current tourney

- Players get bonus chips for contributing efforts. Some people got chips for helping rework the tourney structure.

- We had a costume theme possible. Players who wore costumes got bonus chips for this tourney.

Make sense?

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Yes, and Ty for the reply.

I actually love the ideas....

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The original goal of the structure was to end after around 4 1/2 hours. It ended almost an hour later, at 1:39 a.m.

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To cut an hour, you can go from this:

7- T300/600 50 ante
8- T400/800 50 ante
9- T500/1000 100 ante
10- T600/1200 100 ante
11- T800/1600 200 ante
12- T1000/2000 200 ante


To this:
7- T300/600 50 ante
9- T500/1000 100 ante
12- T1000/2000 200 ante

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I'm not a fan of posting real names and winning amounts, for several reasons.

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Yeah, and I also revealed my domain, lots of personal info! But most of them are just first name last initial, so I doubt you'll be able to track these folks down to mug them for their $100 tourney winnings.

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That was one of the lesser reasons. But, it's your group.

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BTW- how did someone get eliminated DURING the break?

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C'mon, Larry, you're a reasonably intelligent person.

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LOL.

And you don't get off that easily- look at the timestamp gap. Who DOESN'T call "CLOCK!" well before then?

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Curiously, what are your other reasons? I don't post total buyins or anything. I don't need people seeing how much they've lost. I was worried even at this level of stats-keeping.

As to the time stamp... okay, fair enough, I didn't realize the large discrepancy. Break 1 is the dinner break, so I probably didn't get word of the elimination until well into it. Does that satisfy you, huh? Can we move on from this already? Sheesh.