Before anything, I would like first to congratulate you for doing a great job on this site.

Well, I actually drop by because of some questions. My first question has something to do with me holding a tourney with 16 guys, a 250 buy in having 2 tables of 8 playing at the same time. I heard of so many ways of handling blinds, but I’m not totally sure which one to consider. Do you think, it should be started off at 2/4 and then just raise every hour? And the raising amounts would be somewhere in $2? Am I right? By the way, there is no buying back in.

For my second question on the other hand, well, it has something to do with me together with some friends playing a smaller game as a prep. At that instance, I have 2 spades, and the flop had 3. I don’t know if you would you believe that the 4th and 5th cards were spades. Eventually, 2 from our table thought I was buying the pot, but actually we, most especially me, don’t know exactly what to do then. Later on, we just decided to split in 3 ways. Quite lucky, I had 7 spades while others only had the 5. Who do you think wins during that instance?

Thank you so much.

Nathan
Nathan,

In regards to your tournament question, how much you start the blinds at depends on how much you start them in chips. Starting at 2-4 blinds seems too low. You want to start every play with at least 30 big blinds as a stack. If each player starts with 120 chips, then 2-4 blinds would work. A simple structure would be to double the blind every level. If you started with 120 chips and 2-4 blinds, then next level 4-8, and then 8-16, etc. You also need to determine how long you want to play. If you want to have a tournament that is over with quickly, then you want shorter levels.

For your second question there really isn’t enough information. I really need to know what your hold cards were and the board cards. Did you have a spade in your hand of a higher rank than that on board? If you did, then you won the pot. You play your best five cards in holdem. You could have seven spades, but only 5 count. If you did not have a spade that outranked any on the board, then you were correct to split the pot.

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