I have started to play hold em for about a year now, at a local community centre once a week. It is well run and has about 60-100 people show up each week. It goes for about 12 weeks (each week a winner etc.) then based on your ranking over the 12 weeks a main tournament with the amount of chips given to you based on your rank..
Anyway, each week starts off with 2500 chips (costs about $20), it takes about 3 hours before there is a winner. Blinds start at 5-10 and increase every 10 minutes (5-10, 10-20, 15-30, 25-50, 75-150, 100-200 etc).
Based on this type of weekly play, how do