01-21-04, LearnTexasHoldem:

Tourney Blinds and Flush Ties...

Question:I have a couple of questions, but first let me tell you that you have a great site here.

First, I am holding a tourney with 16 guys, a 250 buy in having 2 tables of 8 playing at the same time. Now I have heard a ton of ways to handle the blinds. Should it be started off at 2/4. Then raised every hour? Now the raising amounts would be in $2 amounts...right?

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Note: there is no buying back in.

Second, we were playing a smaller game as a prep. I have 2 spades, and the flop had 3 as well. Would you believe the 4th and 5th cards were spades? 2 guys stayed in thinking I was buying the pot....we didn't know what to do. We split it 3 ways. I had 7 spades, the others only had the 5 on the table. Who wins?

Thanks

Matt

Answer: Thanks for the questions Matt.

Are you playing a no limit or a limit game? Either way...I'll answer both. As far as the blinds in a limit game with a 250 buyin, I would start out at a 5/10 first. You could do a level below that but I would jump from 2/4 to 5/10 and then 10/20 and so on because if you double starting with 2/4 you'll end up at weird limits like 16/32 and 32/64 instead of 20/40 and 40/80. A 2/4 with 250 bucks is a really small limit.

I would also cut down the time before raising the limits from an hour down to a half hour or even after a certain amount of hands. An hour is a long time and you're talking 4 hours to get to 20/40 if you start at 2/4 and go to 5/10 - 10/20 - 20/40. One thing nice about changing limits after x amount of hands is that the other players don't have to wait a long time for the tournament to finish.

The game keeps accelerating as more people drop out. Now for no limit games, I would do the same as the above; start with a 2/4 then go to 5/10, 10/20, 20/40, etc. You may also want to use an ante preflop to make the pots bigger. Lastly while I think an hour is a long time to wait for incrementing the blinds in a limit home tourney, for a no limit it is fine since people will get knocked out at any level.

And yes I can believe the turn and river both being spades to kill your hand. I've had many hands killed like that and it really sucks. To answer the question who wins, it would depend on the cards on the board. If your 7 of spades was larger then any of the other spades on the board then you would win the entire pot. For example if the five spades on the board were 4 - 9 - Q - K - A, then you would win with the best five cards: 7 - 9 - Q - K - A Don't ask me why its like this, it is one of pokers arbitrary rules since you all have an Ace high flush. I guess it goes back to the rule that the best five cards win.

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