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 Hosting a home hold 'em tournament, wolverinefan, 4. Mar 2003 12:12 | ||
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| Hello all, I just found this site, and so far I am very impressed! Great topics and friendly people--a nice combination. My question is this: A friend and I are going to host our first hold 'em tournament sometime in April We are going to start small, with only 20-30 people at three tables. I've played in one home tournament, but it was years ago, and I'm having trouble rembembering the the specifics of how to run the game. That is, how long do you play at each level before moving up--half=hour, hour? What value is good to start at with a $50 buy-in? If we allow players to re-buy, what is the best way to hande that? I have scoured the web for hours looking for a site that would have these answers and more info on hosting a small tourney, and I've looked for books at Borders, and so far, nothing. Can anyone out there point out a website I might have missed that would have info on a home tourney (and I did check homepoker.com), or can anyone offer a very brief primer that would include answers to my above questions? Any help that anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. If you'd rather take it to email, you can send it to wolverinefan2@yahoo.com. Thanks a lot! wolverinefan | ||
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| Re: Hosting a home hold 'em tournament, stdioh, 4. Mar 2003 13:14 | ||
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| on 4. Mar 2003 12:12 wolverinefan wrote: > Hello all, > > I just found this site, and so far I am very impressed! Great topics and > friendly people--a nice combination. > > My question is this: A friend and I are going to host our first hold 'em > tournament sometime in April We are going to start small, with only 20-30 > people at three tables. I've played in one home tournament, but it was years > ago, and I'm having trouble rembembering the the specifics of how to run the > game. That is, how long do you play at each level before moving up--half=hour, > hour? What value is good to start at with a $50 buy-in? If we allow players to > re-buy, what is the best way to hande that? > > I have scoured the web for hours looking for a site that would have these > answers and more info on hosting a small tourney, and I've looked for books at > Borders, and so far, nothing. Can anyone out there point out a website I might > have missed that would have info on a home tourney (and I did check > homepoker.com), or can anyone offer a very brief primer that would include > answers to my above questions? Any help that anyone can provide would be greatly > appreciated. If you'd rather take it to email, you can send it to > wolverinefan2@yahoo.com. There isn't much to hosting a home tournament. Just make sure that you have enough chips and tables, etc. First, I like to leave white chips out of it if I can as they are a bit of a pain. Normally I'll do a T500 tournament (no limit) and start the blinds at 5-10. Round length is entirely up to you...the longer the rounds, the longer the tourney and the less crapshooty. Half an hour should be fine. I usually escalate the blinds in the following manner: 5-10,10-20,15-30,25-50,50-100,75-150,100-200,150-300,200-400,300-600..... Some people find that the jump from 25-50 to 50-100 is a bit much, but I'm of the mind that enough people get eliminated in the first four rounds that a significant step in blinds is appropriate. There's also the question of whether or not you will have rebuys. For home tournaments, I am against them, but if you have them, I would suggest issuing everybody a rebuy card which they can use exactly once to rebuy or add-on for another buy-in. The problem with a rebuy tournament is that people are then correct in playing loose at the start in an attempt to double up and again the tournament becomes more crapshooty. I would also suggest that you determine ahead of time how table balancing will work so that there isn't a controversy. I'm of the mind that when a move is forced you should take a random player from the overfull table and move them into their same position at the new table (ie move them from the BB to the BB or from the puck to the puck), so as not to disadvantage anybody too terribly. Lastly, make sure you have formalized the payout structure. For a 10 person tournament, I like a structure that pays the top 3 50/30/20. For 20 people, I like to pay the top 4 45/30/15/10. For 30 people, perhaps you want to pay the top five...maybe something like 40/30/20/10/10. All that is up to you, but the important thing is that everybody knows everything beforehand. Good luck and I hope that you have a great tournament. | ||
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| Re: Hosting a home hold 'em tournament, wolverinefan, 4. Mar 2003 13:38 | ||
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| Wow--great info! I remembered the basics from the one tournament I played in (which was about 60 people, btw), but this gave me the specific info I needed. Thanks so much for this! wolverinefan | ||
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| Re: Hosting a home hold 'em tournament, stdioh, 5. Mar 2003 09:21 | ||
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| on 4. Mar 2003 13:38 wolverinefan wrote: > Wow--great info! I remembered the basics from the one tournament I played in (which was > about 60 people, btw), but this gave me the specific info I needed. Thanks so much for > this! > > wolverinefan No problems. I hope that the tourney goes well. | ||
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| Also...., Easy E, 4. Mar 2003 13:51 | ||
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| Designate someone (yourself?) as the floorperson for conflict resolution, with 2 alternates in case you and a backup floor are involved in the dispute. If you have the time, try to think of every difficult or argument-triggering situation that you can think of and come up with planned solutions beforehand (distribute them as rules if you have the time). one way to help you with this- search various boards for "floor decision" and dealer-related problems. That should give you a start. Decide if there will be an ending time (and therefore a "most chips wins" procedure or something to allow you to end the game without too many hard feelings. | ||
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