I am having a 6-man T1,000,000 tourney with (1) 500k add-on/rebuy by the 4th level...Blinds start at 2k/4k and go up every 20 mins.

The add-on/rebuy Level ends after 8k/16k (Lv. 4) and before 5k/10k...Where should my blinds end with a potential of T9,000,000 in chips...

I'm not changing the structure btw...it's going to stay a 1,000,000 because it gives us a final table feel.

I don't want it to be too high because I want some play and because if not too many people add-on/rebuy, it will become a crapshoot.

Thanks

You don't end your blinds: the blinds end you.

How long do you want the tourney to last? Without the increasing blinds, there's no reason for a tourney to end. That's the whole point of tourneys. At some point, everybody gets short-stacked. Winning tournaments requires staying ahead of this.

If you want a long deep-stack session, play a cash game. That way nobody has to bust out in order for the game to end. You don't have to increase your buyins to play deep: you can also reduce your blinds.

3-5%

The blinds end when one person has all the chips and you stop the clock. After that, you congratulate the last player standing and call it a night.

Drumroll PLEASE!!!!

Don't forget to tip your waitstaff.....

do you chips have denominations on them? Cause it seems like a lot of work.

Follow the WSOP schedule and pick denominations for chips that start you with ~ 5k with a 5k add-on.

In Soviet Russia?

To expand on Larry's succinct answer, when the BB is 5% of the total chips in play, that's about where your tourney will end. Put another level or two on the end of your blind structure to be safe, but for T9,000,000 total chips, T250k/T500k seems about right for the end.

It sounds like you don't want to rush things at the end. You can have longer blind levels near the point at which you want it to end (the 5% level). That will give you more play. But as stated above, don't stop raising the blinds. I wouldn't say the tournament will never end, but there is no telling how long it will last.

2+2 poster PFAPFAP created a great cheat sheet for structuring tournaments. Click the images below for a larger version.

You'll have to adjust these for your larger denom chips.

On the first page you choose your stack size and the length of your blind rounds. You do this based on what you already should know: how many players you have, and how long you want the tournament to last. For each combination of these, there are three choices of stacks and lengths.



This is a great starting point, but you can tweak this as you like. If you add more chips than recommended, of course your tournament will run a little longer. For example, with the same blind lengths, going from 4K to 5K might add one or two blind levels.

The next page is the blind structure, which is the same for every tournament. They are the ones used in the WSOP.

I think a little part of Larry just died.

Cheat sheet + pfaps' response = Me laughing!

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Use this website:

http://blindvalet.com/index.php?opti...emid=2&lang=en

Use the classic version it is better.

http://blindvalet.com/classic/

Not so fast...that new version looks pretty cool. Haven't see that before. Why do you prefer the classic one?