Game Length

[ORGrinder]

Another question from a person about to hold their first home game...

The game is going to be a 10/20 limit game. Each person will start with 50 $10 chips, 10 $5 chips, and 10 25$ chips. There will be 6 to 8 of us.

I'm wondering, approximately, how long we can expect this game to last. I don't want to start the game too late so that we're all up till the crack of dawn trying to finish up (this isn't the WPT we're talking about here... LOL), so I'd like a ballpark on game length.

Thanks for the info.

[saper88aa]

It depends if you are doing a trney style,freezout like once you chips are gone your out. Or if you ac cash out. If this is the case then out can go on for a lonng time

[ballbp]

As long as you raise the blinds often, and I mean every ten or fifteen minutes, it will get expensive really fast and be over before you know it.

[ORGrinder]

sorry, i should have been more specific...

my plan is to do it tourney style. there will be a buy in for the chips, and whoever is the last person at the table (i.e. has chips left) will win the buy-in pot. there wouldn't be any re-buy's allowed... once you lose your chips, you're out.

i also haden't planned on raising the blinds... although i'm not opposed to doing so. since it's a 10/20 game my plan was to keep the blinds at 5/10... but i'm not opposed to raising them if the game will last forever otherwise.

what do y'all think? 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours ???

[ballbp]

It could go either way not raising the blinds. It just depends on the type of players you're dealing with. We played for three months twice a week not raising the blinds and with four or five hours down we still had three or four of the eight people sitting there passing money back and forth. Someone who is playing very tight, ie me, could just wait on great hands all night long because at low limits there was nothing to make me play marginal hands no matter what position I was in. Try it however you want and let us know how it goes but you could be in for a long night.

[ORGrinder]

maybe what i'll do is every hour, double the blinds. so 5/10 first hour, 10/20 second hour, 20/40 third hour, etc., etc.

then, after 4 hours (which would be 11pm if i start the game at 7pm) change over to a no-limit game.

thanks for the input!!