[PShabi]

Thanks TP.

Here's how we've been doing it. Anything you like/hate about our current structure.

BTW, none of the players here are internet players. They play no poker other than at my place. They all INSIST on assigning monetary value to the chips so that they're placing bets with some $value to them It's a security blanket I guess.

Anyway:

We all start with $20.00 in chips. (.25, .50, 1.00)

The blinds start at .25/.50 and escalate every 45 minutes.

.25/.50
.50/1.00
1.00/2.00
2.00/4.00
3.00/6.00
4.00/8.00 (never got past this)

We used to just play single blind of .25 and would move it up every 45 minutes to .50, .75, 1.00, 2.00 etc. This made it last a little long and made it so stealing the blinds was worthless (which hurts my style). We recently went to the format I outlined above, but if you make a play at a pot and get called on your bluff ONE TIME, you are pretty well crippled. Just like to fine tune this thing a bit.