Setting up a home tourney

#1 3rd October 2006, 9:58 PM

Hi there, i've been playing poker for about 6 months now and have decided to invite my mates round for a few games of texas holdem NL tournament.

There'll be about 10 playing and i have a 500 chipset consisting of
150 x1 ,150 x5 ,100 x10 ,50x 50 ,50x 100 .If i divide the lot between 10 it works out at 940 each.

Can any1 suggest the initial chip layout per player and how much to start the blinds at? I think i was going to rise the blinds every 10 min.

Cheers Gaz

#2 3rd October 2006, 10:04 PM

Using the standard 1000 chip starting stack is a good way to go; I sometimes give both whites and reds value of 5 so as to make up for any shortage of chips.

Blind structure should be something like this with 1000-chip starting stack:

5/10
10/20
20/40
30/60
40/80
50/100
75/150
100/200
200/400
etc etc

if you want a quicker (luck>skill) game then you can skip some steps like 40/80 or 75/150.

Pokerroom has just about the nerdiest way of conducting a home game:
http://www.pokerroom.com/main/page/p...dies/organizer

but it's pretty useful.

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