How to add larger denominations earlier in a tourney

[coolio4433]

The structure is going to be fast. My friend is hosting the event and it's gone from 27 players to 50 players this time around and he wants to keep the time reasonable. I guess we'll just deal with it when the time comes. Maybe if there's a dominant chip leader they'd be the one we'd use to introduce the bigger chips.

thanks

[Lottery Larry]

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The structure is going to be fast. My friend is hosting the event and it's gone from 27 players to 50 players this time around and he wants to keep the time reasonable.

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Coloring up chips is not the important part for this problem- getting the final blinds correct and making the structure as workable as possible, within the time constraints, is what you need to focus on.

However, you haven't even doubled the chips in play. If final blinds work for the 27, make the new blinds 2 1/2 times as large for the same round and work backwards.

[PoWdA]

I would highly suggest starting out by using as few different chips as possilbe. For exapmle don't start out with a 5, 25, 100, 500 stack (actually don't use a $5 chip at all) start out with simple stacks of 25, 100, and 500 chips. this can make the tourney run smooth in MANY ways. If you are giving out say 1500 to eveery player then give one 500 chip, 8 100 chips and 8 25 chips. giving out so many colors is pointless and only serves to confuse palyers and slow the game down.


If you are giving out big stacks like 5k or more add a 1000 chip. try not to make it so complicated and i wouldn't worry about coloring up to "big chips" until the time comes. simply color up the 25 chips when you reach 100/200 (or the first break after you reach this level) and color the 500 chips after you reach 1k/2k blind levels.

As far as how they color up at the WSOP it woudl differ slightly as they use antes so the smaller chips will stay in play longer. I do not recomend using antes in a home tourney, espescially if you do not run a tone of them or have inexpierienced players.


basically don't make it so complicated. the simpler you set up the chip stacks, the simpler the tourney will be to run and the easier it will be for the palyers to play. I have seen tournaments ruined by giving out wierd chip amounts. keep it simple.


that is my advice.

[coolio4433]

Believe me, I have tried to explain this to my friend. My suggestion was to start with exactly what PoWdA said, except using 3 500 chips to make 2500 stacks.

Instead he ignored my suggestion and is using 5, 10, 25, 100 chip denominations and starting stacks of 750. with 5/10 starting blinds.
This is partially due to the number of players and the number of chips available (we only have 400 each of the lower denominations).

I still don't like his structure, but it's his tourney, and if I bust out I can just start the cash games faster.

[Black Aces 518]

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Believe me, I have tried to explain this to my friend. My suggestion was to start with exactly what PoWdA said, except using 3 500 chips to make 2500 stacks.

Instead he ignored my suggestion and is using 5, 10, 25, 100 chip denominations and starting stacks of 750. with 5/10 starting blinds.
This is partially due to the number of players and the number of chips available (we only have 400 each of the lower denominations).

I still don't like his structure, but it's his tourney, and if I bust out I can just start the cash games faster.

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UGH. The worst idea is to have chips that don't divide into each other. A tourney I visit has 10 chips and 25 chips and it's always a goddamn fiasco, because invariably the blinds are 20/40 and someone puts out a 25 and two 10s and there aren't 5s to make change and . . .

All your chip values should divide into each other. Either do 5-25-100 or 10-50-100 or 20-100 or whatever but 5-10-25 sucks it bigtime.