New 3-hour Freeroll Blind Structure Taking Shape
Pokerati is headed to Chicago for an event you may not know about, nor should you. The awesomely titled “Pike Poker Tourney” takes place at the Best Western-Evanston on Saturday, Oct. 23, after Northwestern’s (5-1) homecoming football game against Michigan State (7-0).
It’s a $1,000+ freeroll for Pi Kappa Alpha alums and actives … with $1k going to first, and 2nd through 4th TBA tomorrow. Economists have confirmed that $1k is still “a shitload” to college students.
I’ll be serving as executive floor honcho, and found out earlier today the original plan called for only 1,000 starting chips.
Gahhh!
Just because this will be a very quick, luck-friendly 3(ish)-hour event doesn’t mean it has to suck! (We can stretch it to 4 hours if necessary, though it shouldn’t be hard to get players to push chips around — health officials confirm that college students still like to drink, as do aging alumni desperately trying to cling to their youth.)
Props to @SteveH369) for tipping me off to the blind structure calculator from BlindValet.com. It’s not perfect — got a list of unsolicited suggestions — but overall you can see how BV’s “Create a Tournament” feature will obviously drive Matt Savage out of business while landing Allen Kessler an endorsement deal.
One nifty thing I’ll be beta testing boldly and proudly introducing with this blind structure is the “stimulus add-on” … essentially, at each break all surviving players get extra chips. Like a soccer referee showing the stoppage time, I’ll declare how many chips (probably 5k, then 10k, then 0k) with 10 minutes to go before break.
(Love how the stimulus add-on announcement stands to change play at various points … as well as the potential for in-game TD corruption it creates!)
Check out the deeper-stacked structure for the Pike Poker Tourney below as I get back in touch with some of my underage gambling roots to study the next generation of midwestern fish.
Pike Poker Tourney
| Starting Stack: | 5000 |
| Add-on Chips: | variable at breaks – amount announced 10 min. before |
| Duration: | 3.5 hours |
| Blind Structure | ||||
| Level | Time(min) | Small Blind | Big Blind | Running Time |
| 1 | 15 | 25 | 50 | 0:15 |
| 2 | 15 | 50 | 100 | 0:30 |
| 3 | 15 | 100 | 200 | 0:45 |
| BREAK 10 min | ||||
| 4 | 15 | 200 | 400 | 1:00 |
| 5 | 15 | 300 | 600 | 1:15 |
| 6 | 15 | 500 | 1000 | 1:30 |
| 7 | 15 | 1000 | 2000 | 1:45 |
| BREAK 10 min | ||||
| 8 | 15 | 2000 | 4000 | 2:00 |
| 9 | 15 | 3000 | 6000 | 2:15 |
| 10 | 15 | 5000 | 10000 | 2:30 |
| 11 | 15 | 10000 | 20000 | 2:45 |
| 12 | 15 | 20000 | 40000 | 3:00 |
| BREAK 10 min | ||||
| 13 | 15 | 30000 | 60000 | 3:15 |
| 14 | 15 | 50000 | 100000 | 3:30 |
| 15 | 15 | 100000 | 200000 | 3:45 |
Joey says:
October 22nd, 2010 at 5:50am
Hmmm…this is a lot more complicated than the games of “Dealer’s Choice” in the Pike Basement back in the day. You should combine it with a Century Club to make it even MORE interesting.
Mark Gahagan says:
October 22nd, 2010 at 11:46am
So many frat stereotypes…so little time to list them all.
DanM says:
October 22nd, 2010 at 11:52am
go football!
Willie says:
October 22nd, 2010 at 4:35pm
Now, I’m drawn.
Do I mock Northwestern because their only loss was to Purdue (Boiler Up!) or do I mock the Pikes because, well, they’re Pikes?
Decisions, decisions…