So I am going to be getting a game going soon...

[prajna]

I am planing out the starting chip stacks and blinds. Does this seem reasonable? Blinds will go up every 15 minutes, 5min break each hour. Max 9 ppl, rebuys the first hour:

12 x white (25) = 300 x9 ppl playing = 108 chips
12 x red (50) = 600 x9 ppl playing = 108 chips
6 x blue (100) = 600 x9 ppl playing = 54 chips
3 x green (500) = 1500 x9 ppl playing = 27 chips
2 x black (1000) = 2000 x9 ppl playing = 18 chips

5000 in starting chips

blinds are
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200

150/300
200/400
250/500
300/600

400/800 50a
500/1000 50a
600/1200 50a
700/1400 50a

900/1800 100a
1100/2200 100a
1300/2600 100a
1500/3000 100a

2000/4000 200a
2500/5000 200a
3000/6000 200a
3500/7000 200a

4000/8000 500a
5000/10000 500a
6000/12000 500a
7000/14000 500a

[JD Roark]

With antes it will probably end after about 3 hours. Up til that point the structure looks ok. Afterwards the blind levels are a bit wacky. Typically 7x, 9x, 11x, 13X levels are not used. If you look at WSOP or WPT structures you will never see these types of levels.

Also, typically when you add in antes, you leave the blinds the same for that level.

For a 3 hour T5000 tournament with 9 players I would do something like this:
Blind Structure
Level Small Blind Big Blind Antes
1 25 50 -
2 50 100 -
3 75 150 -
4 100 200 -
5 150 300 -
6 150 300 25
7 200 400 50
8 250 500 50
9 300 600 75
10 400 800 100
11 600 1200 100
12 800 1600 200
See structure as created by Blind Valet (http://blindvalet.fr/DEV/index.php?players=9&start_chips=5000&small_blind=25&rebuys=&addons=&ante_option=1&leveltime=&runtime=3&chip_val_1=25&chip_val_2=100&chip_val_3=500&chip_val_4=1000&chip_val_5=5000&chip_val_6=10000&chip_val_7=&chip_val_8=)
Also you probably don't need the 50 or 1000 chips for a T5000.

-JD