Big Blind Ante 3 day event

[mrbutler88]

Hi All,

I wanted some help with the structuring of our 3 day event we will be holding in November this year, we are hoping for around 500 players 250 each day.

Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated.

Blind levels are all 30 minutes

Day 1 will finish at level 13
Day 2 will play out to 9 players

Day 1            
Lvl    SB    BB   Ante   
1   100   100   100   
2   100   200   200   
3   200   300   300   
4   200   400   400   
5   300   500   500   
               Break
6   300   600   600   
7   400   800   800   
8   500   1000   1000   
9   600   1200   1200   
Break - Remove 100 chips
10   1000    1500  1500
11   1000    2000  2000
12   1500    2500  2500
13   2000    3000  3000
End of Day 1 - Remove 500 chips (Bagging)            

14   2000    4000  4000   
15   3000    5000  5000   
16   3000    6000  6000   
17   4000    8000  8000   
18   5000    10000 10000   
19   6000   12000 12000   
Break - Remove 1k chips
20   10000  15000  15000   
21   10000  20000  20000   
22   15000  25000  25000   
23   15000  30000  30000   
24   20000  40000  40000   
25   25000  50000  50000   
26   30000  60000  60000   
27   40000  80000  80000   
28   50000  100000  100000   
29   100000  150000  150000   
30   100000  200000  200000   
31   150000  300000  300000   
32   200000  400000  400000   

[Boris]

Hello mrbutler88,

Blind levels are all 30 minutes

Day 1 will finish at level 13
Day 2 will play out to 9 players

Day 1            
Lvl    SB    BB   Ante   
1   100   100   100   
2   100   200   200   
3   200   300   300   
4   200   400   400   
5   300   500   500   
               Break

I assume the starting stack is something around 30K regarding the information you gave.

Here you can start with a 100/100 level with no ante.
It allows you to not reducing the players stack in BB amount for the first hour.
Level would 2 be 100/100/100.

You could also remove your actual level 5.
You can raise the BB amount by 50% at this stage of the tournament.

However, 2 hours and 30 minutes without break might be a bit too much. Most of the time, 2 hours play between breaks is the maximum.

6   300   600   600   
7   400   800   800   
8   500   1000   1000   
9   600   1200   1200   
Break - Remove 100 chips
10   1000    1500  1500

Starting with 100/100 and 2 hours play allows you to send players on break at the end of level 8. (which the same one if you started 100/100 and removed level 5)

Then you have 2 more levels. Since you had already 10 levels and 2 breaks, at this stage, tournament is already 5h40 hours long (20 mn breaks). So you can send your players and dealers on Diner break during which players can still register. You also have
more time to remove your 100 chips.

It allows you to have 800/1600/1600 on level 10

14   2000    4000  4000   
15   3000    5000  5000   
16   3000    6000  6000   
17   4000    8000  8000   
18   5000    10000 10000   
19   6000   12000 12000   
Break - Remove 1k chips
20   10000  15000  15000   
21   10000  20000  20000 

Again, with 2 hours play you can have

14   2000    4000  4000   
15   3000    5000  5000   
16   3000    6000  6000   
17   4000    8000  8000   
Break
18   5000    10000 10000   
19   6000   12000 12000   
20   8000   16000 16000   
21   10000  20000  20000 
Break - Remove 1k chips



The end of the structure seems to be fine.

Cheers