07- 8-04, LearnTexasHoldem:

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Question: I have recently been playing in a tournament with usually 8-10 players. We've been starting at about 10 and ending as late as 5 in the morning. We start with probably 600-700 chips. Our blinds have been 5-10 until we get 4 or 5 people left. How should we do blinds as far as number and should we ante and blind to speed up play? Also with 16 people and the same number of chips what's good for blinds and combining to one table? With all of these questions though I would like to maintain everyone having a good time and not being out within minutes.

Thank you,

Blake

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Answer: Another reader just sent in their blinds for their tournaments and you can read the details here. His tourney lasts about 7 hours and they start with $3500. If you have a fifth for initial chips then just divide all his numbers by 5. You could still start out at 5/10 then progress to 10/20, 20/40, 30/60, 50/100 etc. If you want to also use antes you can use them for just later levels or through out the whole thing.

I would just make the ante 1/5 of the small blind to make it easy. The first round you have a 1 chip ante, then go to a 2 chip, then 4, etc. Next, if you have 16 people split them into two even tables of 8. Combine them when the total equals 10. You can move people over from one to the other so it remains even so you don't even up with 3 on one table and 8 on another.

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