Blinds and Antes

[mjrevie]

Need some quick advice. For a one off we are changing our home game from a rebuy to a deep stack freezeout with a plan for it to go on for 5 or so hours. We usually just have blinds all nights but for this i want to introduce blinds and antes. People are very suspicious of any sort of change in case they lose some sort of 'edge' (any attempt to actually make them improve their game is largely ignored). Using the line, well every major tournie and online tournie has blinds and antes wont work with this lot.

I need a couple of reasons of why introducing blinds and antes at a later stage in a tournament is worthwhile.

Cheers

[Wardonkey]

Here's typical stucture for a championship event, you may have to reduce the time and probably the starting stack and to get even a 10 player tourney over in 5 hours.

The main arguement for antes is that they encourage a bit more action. There is more in the middle to fight over and the short stacks come under more consistant pressure. They also allow the bigger and medium stacks more play because otherwise a faster clock would be required.

10,000 starting stack

Lvl    Time      Ante  SB    BB

1    60 min    -    25    50
2    60 min    -    50    100
3    60 min    -    100    200
4    60 min    25    100    200
5    60 min    25    150    300
6    60 min    50    200    400
7    60 min    75    300    600
8    60 min    100    500    1,000
9    60 min    200    800    1,600
10    60 min    300    1,000    2,000
11    60 min    500    1,500    3,000
12    60 min    700    2,000    4,000
13    60 min    1,000    3,000    6,000
14    60 min    2,000    5,000    10,000
15    60 min    2,000    7,000    15,000
16    60 min    3,000    10,000    20,000
17    60 min    3,000    15,000    30,000
18    60 min    5,000    20,000    40,000