Please help me set up a home SnG game

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I'm trying to set up a Sit n Go game with:

5 Players
300 Chips Total (3 denominations - 150 chips/100 chips/ and 50 chips)
Preferably to last for around 1 hour (so we can play multiple games in one night)
no buy-ins/re-buy


So i guess what i need to know is:

Value of each denomination
Blind structure (how much is SB and BB, as well as how much time to increase each)
How to distribute chips among the 5 players

sorry for the beginner question, i just started to learn how to play

Thanks in advance! :D,

Rafael
 
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All you need to know is here at this excellent home tourney site
http://www.homepokertourney.com/

As a guide to get started though:-
your chip denominations should be about 4 or 5 times the value of the previous one e.g. 5 - 25 - 100 or 20/25 - 100 - 500

your chip denominations will obviously have to accommodate your blind levels or vice-versa
e.g. If your blinds are 15, you will need 5 value chips or with 20,40, 60, blinds you will need 20 value chips, but with 25,50,75 blinds you will want 25 value chips.

Aiming for 1hr games is quite ambitious IMO, the blinds will have to increase VERY quickly and this format will favour luck more than a slower structure which will allow for more skilful play.
I would think aiming for 2 or maybe 3 games in an evening would be better.

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Aiming for 1hr games is quite ambitious IMO, the blinds will have to increase VERY quickly and this format will favour luck more than a slower structure which will allow for more skilful play.
I would think aiming for 2 or maybe 3 games in an evening would be better.

GL

I agree with this, a 1 hour game is not really worth it... if you really want a short game 500 chips would be a good start, with incriments of 5, 25 and 100.

another thing i like to do for sng home games is play with two decks, of two different colors so they dont mix, and while one hand is happening the person in charge of the next deal (small blind) can get the next deck shuffled ready to go, this will get your more hands in per hour as you wont be waiting for the person to organize/straighten cards, and shuffle to deal the next hand, it'll be dealt before you can stack your chips :) hope that helps
 
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We usually don't play that short of a time period. Sometimes we have enough for two tables,,, as the tournament goes on ,,,the people knocked out sometimes play a cash game until the next one we start. Someone mentioned two decks,,, this a great idea we do that and it makes the game go quicker
 
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Could always make it all in or fold (AIOF) or 1 of the games. That would probably make the game quicker! 1hr for any sitngo home game would have to be turbo where level goes up every deal IMO.
 
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The secret to wrapping up any tournament on a schedule is this - engineer the structure so that you've got 10BB (or less) total in play at the point when you want your tournament to end.

For five people to finish a game in an hour I'd probably do something like this:

Starting stacks: T2500 (two denominations, 100 and 500. Start with 10x100 and 3x500 in each stack)

Levels (12 minutes each):
100/200
200/400
300/600
500/1000
1000/2000

Yes that's crazy fast and it'll be a pushfest / luckfest if you're playing "properly", but that's live turbo poker for you :p
 
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thanks for all the tips guys! i guess one hour is a bit too fast. I'd rather it take longer and make it more skill-based than a luck-based game. I guess it's because ive been playing a lot online which is a lot time faster than playing live.

thanks once again

-Rafa
 
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thanks for all the tips guys! i guess one hour is a bit too fast. I'd rather it take longer and make it more skill-based than a luck-based game. I guess it's because ive been playing a lot online which is a lot time faster than playing live.

thanks once again

-Rafa
You have to remember that in a pass the deal home game you'll be pretty lucky to play 40 hands/hr! So do you really want your entire tourney to last for only 40 hands?
 
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You have to remember that in a pass the deal home game you'll be pretty lucky to play 40 hands/hr! So do you really want your entire tourney to last for only 40 hands?

If they can get 40 hands in an hour I'd be amazed - I know in my local casino, with professional dealers, shuffling machines and a 30-second time limit for acting on your hand they still don't expect to get much over 20 hands/hour.
 
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Could always make it all in or fold (AIOF) or 1 of the games. That would probably make the game quicker! 1hr for any sitngo home game would have to be turbo where level goes up every deal IMO.

Good suggestion.. Lol... Yeah the time is too short.. Does'nt sound too fun. Just start several games and multi table. Why 1 hour? All in or fold would make it quick. :musicus: Good luck setting that up.
 
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If they can get 40 hands in an hour I'd be amazed - I know in my local casino, with professional dealers, shuffling machines and a 30-second time limit for acting on your hand they still don't expect to get much over 20 hands/hour.
Wow that seems really slow. I went high intentionally because they were only starting with 5 players and with only an hour they would have to get to HU very quickly.
 
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LOL - yeah, live pokeraments huh. My personal record for a slow game while dealing is 21 hands over the course of a 2.5 hour event. Turns out having to say "check or bet... *sigh* check means pass without betting" to every single player on every single street of every single hand, and then have them umm and aah over the ramifications of that choice every single time, takes up a lot of time :p

Only having five players will speed things up a little (my casino example is for a full-ring cash game) and if everyone knows what they're doing / acts reasonably quickly it'll help too, but I'd still be amazed if they even got 30 hands into an hour.
 
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