need help for home tourney

[bobdogbobdog]

Hi

I just organised a home tourney yest night and got 37 players to show. Each player started with 1500 chips and the blind levels were 15 minutes each and as follows

10/20
20/40
30/60
40/80
50/100
100/200
150/300
200/400
300/600
400/800
1000/2000

However, i realised that for each blind level, there were very very few hands played coz it's so slow in live play, and by the time blinds got to about 100/200, it was more like a crap shoot ( all in or fold )

Also, the reason there were no 15/30 and 75/150 level was that there werent enough chips make give every1 5$ chips.

Any1 can give me some suggestions as to how i can make my tournament better?

Thanks alot

[KampfHase]

Click on Home Poker Tourney - Blind Samples
or
Home Poker Tourney - Large Tourneys.

Maybe you should try 20, 25, or 30 minutes levels, (or stop the clock when it is shuffled - the small blind could do this while the dealer is shuffling).

(Get some more $5 chips if you can efford them, or raise a collective donation to buy them.)

[82Steve]

the jump from 50/100 to 100/200 is too steep. 75/150 would be perfect. i assume you have $25 chips in play, so that would do it. if not then use something like 70/140.

i think 20min blind levels are minimum. i prefer 30mins but i dont know what your timelimit is, and w/ that many players you need to put pressure on everybody so the tourney wont last forever.

use 2 decks of cards per table to speed up play. when a hand is over, the dealer of the last hand collects and shuffles all the cards and hands the deck to SB in the current hand, who will be dealer the next hand. SB then cuts cards. back of the cards have to be colored differently to avoid trouble.

[Lottery Larry]

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I just organised a home tourney yest night and got 37 players to show. Each player started with 1500 chips

and by the time blinds got to about 100/200, it was more like a crap shoot ( all in or fold )

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You had 56k in chips in play at the 6th level after coloring up.... and it was a pushfest at 100/200... so you still had over 20+ players in, right?

Give us your chip counts by value (no denoms on the chips, are there?) and time limits to end the tourney.

[SinOrSwim]

unless you have hours and hours of time available you will automatically run into this with that many people. I have a home game about once a month and it still seems like it's push or fold towards the end of mine and we typically only have between 8-12 people. 20 minute blinds live you just don't see many hands. Getting 2 decks going will help tremendously. I wouldn't do the stop the clock while shuffling though. Too inconsistent. It will piss someone off. Just increase the length of each blind.

Weeknight games where people don't want to be out til all hours of the night due to work the next day are very difficult to do.

You could also lower the buy-in and offer a rebuy in the first hour. That tends to increase the action.

Good luck.

Homepokertourney.com has some good info.

[PokerKhan]

The easy answer is increase the blind levels and/or increase the starting chips.

We use this structure:

3000 starting chips
20-minute blinds (you could have 30-minute blinds for the first 2 or 3 levels)

25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
200/400
300/600
400/800
500/1000
600/1200
800/1600
1000/2000
additional levels: add $50 in antes each level

We also cut down the blind levels to 15 minutes once tourney is heads up.

This structure seems to work well as it gives enough chips to give plenty of play at the early levels, and enough variance in chip stacks later on to give realistic tournament play. You can expect this tournament to last about 3 to 4 hours with 37 players.

[yeotaJMU]

at my games we usually do this:

30 min levels:
5/10
10/20
25/50
75/150

15 or 20 min levels depending on start time/day of week etc
100/200
200/400
300/600
400/800
500/1000 etc

we start with 2k in chips though but this works fine.

[bobdogbobdog]

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I just organised a home tourney yest night and got 37 players to show. Each player started with 1500 chips

and by the time blinds got to about 100/200, it was more like a crap shoot ( all in or fold )

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You had 56k in chips in play at the 6th level after coloring up.... and it was a pushfest at 100/200... so you still had over 20+ players in, right?

Give us your chip counts by value (no denoms on the chips, are there?) and time limits to end the tourney.

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Yes we still had about 20+ players in at that level.
My chip denoms were 10,20,50,100 chips
Do u think this is a bad structure for chip denominations? Am thinking of adding a 25 dollar chip so we can have the 75/150 and 150/300 level

[yeotaJMU]

if u add a 25 chip get rid of the 20 chip make it a 5 and you are set

[Bulldog]

chip denoms 5, 25, 100, 500 (if necessary)

no 10, 20, or 50 ever