Weregoat
Visionary
Silver Level
Hey guys. I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to live tournaments. I saw a post on here a little while back about a tournament I had been considering at the Bike. (Depending on the time of year, they run nooners and midnight MTTs for like $40 with a $10 take.) I know that's high, especially compared to online when you're paying the house 10%, instead of 25% of the buy-in. But the overhead for running B&M tournaments (paying and tipping dealers/floormen, paying security, maintaining property, lease, electricity, etc, as opposed to handling bandwidth requirements, keeping servers up, paying customer service, etc) -
But that's now why I'm posting this question - I guess my main concern is this: What blind structure/starting chip stack would be ideal?
Obv if you start with 10k chips and the blinds are 5/10 and go up every 30 minutes and two hundred people are playing, you're going to be there forever, but what are some good numbers should I be looking at?
1k chips starting at 10/20 going up every 20 mins seems a bit fast, but I don't really know how to compare that to say . . . 3000 chips starting at 10/20 going up every 20 minutes.
And I know the argument has been made that the casino wants the tournament to be as fast as possible - allowing the players to get back to other tables, etc, so they can make more money. Just curious what I should be looking for . . .
Also, does anybody know the structure for the wsop main event? I think I heard on ESPN you get 10k chips (
), but that was years ago and I was PROBABLY drunk.
Thanks in advance.
Oh ya! I'm looking more for experience playing in tourneys than maximum profitability. This will be an 'on the side project' to my serious attempt at B&M poker here next year.
But that's now why I'm posting this question - I guess my main concern is this: What blind structure/starting chip stack would be ideal?
Obv if you start with 10k chips and the blinds are 5/10 and go up every 30 minutes and two hundred people are playing, you're going to be there forever, but what are some good numbers should I be looking at?
1k chips starting at 10/20 going up every 20 mins seems a bit fast, but I don't really know how to compare that to say . . . 3000 chips starting at 10/20 going up every 20 minutes.
And I know the argument has been made that the casino wants the tournament to be as fast as possible - allowing the players to get back to other tables, etc, so they can make more money. Just curious what I should be looking for . . .
Also, does anybody know the structure for the wsop main event? I think I heard on ESPN you get 10k chips (
), but that was years ago and I was PROBABLY drunk. Thanks in advance.
Oh ya! I'm looking more for experience playing in tourneys than maximum profitability. This will be an 'on the side project' to my serious attempt at B&M poker here next year.
