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Help Me / Re: 50 man tournament
« on: February 20, 2010, 10:08:40 PM »
agro,
What is the starting stack as this will be fundanmental to your structure...
If you are starting at 25/25 i'd be looking for a tourney with a starting stack of around 3,000 chips (120bb) whereas 5,000 or more would usually start at 25/50 given your time constraints, given that you want it finished in 5 hours I think antes will be essential but this all hinges on your starting stack.
An important thing to consider is how deep you want it, if you are having a deep/super/mega stack then you are going to need aggressive blinds that will create an 'elastic band' effect - for example if you look at your tourney the average stack at the half way point will likely be short stacked, whereas if you run a 'deep structure' with a smaller starting stack you could theoretically have poker played all the way through, however many non-discerning players will not realise it and will complain that they have no chips to play with but in reality the deep stack is actually worse. But then with a deep stack players are going to realise when they get deeper into the tourney that the structure flawed given the time limits.
For a 25/50 start with rebuys I don't think you can realistic-lay start with any more than 4,000 chips in order to avoid the blinds shooting up that quick that the button does not get one orbit in during each level
for a 25/25 start with rebuys i'd be looking at 2,000 chips prob.
See the thread about structures by Matt Savage on the Poker Tournament Director's Association Discussion Forum:
http://appservicesonline.com/PokerTDAForum/index.php?topic=38.0
regards
Stuart
What is the starting stack as this will be fundanmental to your structure...
If you are starting at 25/25 i'd be looking for a tourney with a starting stack of around 3,000 chips (120bb) whereas 5,000 or more would usually start at 25/50 given your time constraints, given that you want it finished in 5 hours I think antes will be essential but this all hinges on your starting stack.
An important thing to consider is how deep you want it, if you are having a deep/super/mega stack then you are going to need aggressive blinds that will create an 'elastic band' effect - for example if you look at your tourney the average stack at the half way point will likely be short stacked, whereas if you run a 'deep structure' with a smaller starting stack you could theoretically have poker played all the way through, however many non-discerning players will not realise it and will complain that they have no chips to play with but in reality the deep stack is actually worse. But then with a deep stack players are going to realise when they get deeper into the tourney that the structure flawed given the time limits.
For a 25/50 start with rebuys I don't think you can realistic-lay start with any more than 4,000 chips in order to avoid the blinds shooting up that quick that the button does not get one orbit in during each level
for a 25/25 start with rebuys i'd be looking at 2,000 chips prob.
See the thread about structures by Matt Savage on the Poker Tournament Director's Association Discussion Forum:
http://appservicesonline.com/PokerTDAForum/index.php?topic=38.0
regards
Stuart