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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 3949329, member: 23910"] Chip values are largely aribitrary, what's more important is the gaps between them. You probably want each chip to be worth 4-5 times the one below it. Say you start with a $5 chip, you might go with: $5, $25, $100 and $500 chips. Say you start with $5-$10 blinds, you could give everyone 10 x $5, 6 x $25, 8 x $100 and 2 x $500 for a $2000 starting stack, which is 200 BB. That's pretty deep. Best advice I can give after that is to work backwards: Say you get eight players, and you go with the $2k starting stacks above (I'm assuming it's a freezeout / no rebuys too). That puts $16k total chips in play. Tournaments like this usually end when there's between 10 and 20 big blinds total left on the table. So you want the blinds to get to something like $500-$1000 around the time you want the tournament to end. Work the timing of your levels back from there and you're good to go. [/QUOTE]