Short Handed Tournament

[k0smo 0]

I'm gonna have a little shorthanded tournament, 4-5 people, in my dorm room tomorrow night. I usually start everyone with $2,000 in chips. 20 x $25, 10 x $100 and 1 x $500. Anyone have a better chip structure suggestion? Just lookin for some new ideas maybe.

[Demonde 0]

To simulate Poker Superstars 1, 2, and 3 give each of your friends one chip worth 2,000.

[k0smo 0]

lol ya ya, for real though

[Zach6668 513]

Why is it hard to just come up with something yourself? Seriously.

[KidSquamish 0]

Might be helpful to know how many chips of each color you have, but here's how we roll in my crib . . .Do a standard WSOP structure: $10,000 starting stack.8 chips at $25 each = $20013 chips at $100 each = $1,3007 chips at $500 each = $3,5002 chips at $2,500 each = $5,000TOTAL = $10,000That's only 30 chips, so any piddly small chip set can handle a shorthanded tournament.Blinds start at 25/50, 50/100, 100/200, etc. That's 200BB in the starting stack, plenty to let the "play" dominate early as opposed to the luck of the draw.Yes, I'm a post newb. Flame on.

[checkymcfold 0]

generally, it feels nice to have as many chips as possible on the table, especially in shorthanded games. split up the denominations such that you use a lot of your chips (assuming you have a 300 or 500 chip set). you're in college, you can figure out the rest.

[k0smo 0]

you guys make it sound like I am retarded, I was just looking for suggestions, thats all, thanks for the wise *** comments

[Zach6668 513]

you guys make it sound like I am retarded, I was just looking for suggestions, thats all, thanks for the wise *** comments

Thanks for the useless/retarded post.

[Wandigo 1]

In the weekly tournament I run, I like to generally give a good number of chips so you're not having the feeling that you're already short stacked. Blue = $50Black = $25Green = $10Red = $5White = $1I give everyone around $430 to start. (It's a strange and unique number, but I do it because it's MY tournament and it's how I wanted to do it, so I don't look like everyone else)Usually I give:4 Blue's = $2004 Black's = $1008 Green's = $808 Red's = $4010 (sometimes 15, sometimes 20) White's = $10 (giving them some more whites gives that feeling of having more chips to play with... or at least to shuffle with).I start blinds at 1/2, which, like KidSquamish said, let's the "play" dominate early and you don't get blinded out.I raise the blinds every 20 minutes. 1/2 - 2/4 - 3/6 - 5/10 (cash out whites) - 10/20 - 20/40 (cash out reds) - 25/50 - 50/100 - 100/200, etc...Sometimes I'll make the first blind level go for 30 minutes and the rest 20. It's all personal preference. Try a few things out and see what works for you and what your crowd likes.And since the chips don't have numbers on them, I have small "cheat sheets" printed out that I put at each spot that have pictures of each colored chip and the value next to it.Good luck with whatever you come up with.