So for my charity tournament, I had a lot of people trying to input how things should be run. I really wrestled with it, as I didn't want it like a pushfest, but I can't have it lasting 7-8 hours. I decided to go with a 25 minute blind time, since 15 or 20 minutes seemed too fast and 30 minutes was just a bit too long for a charity type tournament. Here's what I decided to use as blinds:
What do you think? Fair enough? We have between 80-100 expected to be playing...
I decided to split the prizes as far down the places as possible. So at first, I thought I could package stuff together and say you win a bunch of stuff but only pay the top 10-15. But then I thought that a lot of places paid would encourage peeps to play again next year. I mean, if 80 poeple play and we give prizes to 25 of them: that's over 30% of the people that walk with a prize. I think that's pretty good.
Here's an idea (not finalized) of what the prizes will be:
1st
$800 Visa Check Card
2nd
26 inch HDTV
3rd
Poker Table
4th
Guys Night Package
5th
$100 FTP Cash
6th
Jacket, 4 Beer Glasses, UDB
7th
IPOD Shuffle, 4 beer glasses
8th
Mineos Gift Cert
9th
2 Harrington Books
10th
500 poker chips
11th
Multiple Resteraunts GC
12th
hat and UDB
13th
hat and UDB
14th
hat and UDB
15th
hat and UDB
16th
t-shirt and UDB
17th
t-shirt and UDB
18th
t-shirt and UDB
19th
t-shirt and UDB
20th
Mike Matheny Auto Framed
21st
UDB
22nd
UDB
23rd
WPT cards
24th
4 beer glasses
25th
4 beer glasses
26th
4 beer glasses
27th
4 beer glasses
I just hope everyone feels like they had fun and got something. Of course, the open bar included in the buy in helps.
If you have any input, that would be appreciated....
Stay patient...
3 comments:
How many starting chips?
I like the idea of more prizes to encourage future participation.
I hope the event goes well!
$1500 starting chips with $500 addon for $5. So really, everyone should be starting with $2,000 in chips.
That seems like a fast structure. After one hour you're down to an average of 10BB. I guess with so many players you can't have too many chips though. Thanks for the post, I was looking to compare structures with someone for a big home game I'm planning.
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