The instructions have been given to shuffle up and deal as Day 3 of the PokerStars.net APPT Sydney Grand Final is now underway. We'll recommence with 48:44 left on the clock in level 15 with the blinds at 2,500-5,000 and a 500 ante. We'll be playing this evening. This is a discussion on Best Blind Levels? Within the online poker forums, in the Tournament Poker section; What should be the minimum blind time to play a tournament with quality. The blind calculator tool below can take care of that and help set up your perfect structure. To calculate a blind structure, you need the starting blind level, the estimated total value of the tournament chips in play (initial buy-ins plus rebuys and add-ons) and the desired length of the tournament. Level up: blinds 20,000-40,000, ante 4,000 3.20pm: Stop and go home, Mazairac out in 15th (€26,000) Didier Mazairac is our 15th place finisher taking home €26,000 after a 'stop and go' went wrong.

After 17 levels of 20 minutes each, Day 1 of the PokerStars Blowout Series: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!] has come to a conclusion with 6,490 entries to get to a total prize purse of a whopping $6,490,000. And with the late registration and reentry period open until 6:05 p.m. GMT, these numbers will only go up even more.

Out of all those entries, 1,580 players have made it through to Day 2 which will start at 6:10 p.m. GMT on Monday, January 18. Leading the pack right now is 'Kngsins' who grabbed the chip lead at the end of the day when they took out 'wusch1818' with pocket kings while the latter held queens. They are followed by 'Shipmopff' (479,328), 'aeihorn' (424,928), 'stfckup' (415,459), and 'bisbiki78' (404,952) in the top five of the counts.

But if you look further in the top ten of the counts, Satoshi 'Satosh Nakmoto' Nakamoto and Sebastian 'p0cket00' Sikorski can also be found in the top ten while players like Peter 'twirlpro' Turmezy, Dominik 'Bounatirou' Nitsche, Anatoly 'NL_Profit' Filatov, Tomas 'MASUR0N1KE' Kubaliak, and Daan 'DaanOss' Mulders all finished in the top 25.

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Just like last week, Lex 'L. Veldhuis' Veldhuis is leading the Team PokerStars members into Day 2 with 175,137 in chips. His first bullet didn't hit any targets as he first lost a chunk of his stack with kings and then lost the rest while holding them himself. He is joined for Day 2 by Ramon 'RamonColillas' Colillas (160,484) and Andre 'aakkari' Akkari (39,140) who also had to reenter after losing his chips with kings too.

Fintan 'EasyWithAces' Handheld the overpair when the chips went in on the turn but 'valerion06' had hit a straight already. Georgina 'GJReggie' Jameslost her last few chips when she held pocket tens and ran them into the ace-queen of her opponent. Ben 'Spraggy' Spragglost his shortstack too but his hole cards were unfortunately unknown.

When the players return for Day 2, they will start with Level 18 which features a small blind of 900, a big blind of 1,800, and a running ante of 225. The level duration will be reduced to 15 minutes until the final table has been reached. Once this point has been reached, the day will end as the final table will be played out on Tuesday, January 19 at 6:05 p.m. GMT.

The PokerStars Twitch channel will be live too from the start of the final table with hole cards coverage on a security delay with commentary provided by James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton.

PokerNews will be here for all of it so make sure to keep following along with all the action.

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The blind structure (or schedule) is one of the most important details of running a successful tournament. Gradual increases of the blinds at each level and finishing on time are characteristics of a good blind structure.

To calculate a blind structure, the minimum information you need is the number of players, target duration, and the starting blind level (which is usually the smallest chip denomination you have). It is also necessary to know how many chips there will be in play and how many rounds there will be. The blind calculator tool below can take care of that and help set up your perfect structure.

To calculate a blind structure, you need the starting blind level, the estimated total value of the tournament chips in play (initial buy-ins plus rebuys and add-ons) and the desired length of the tournament. Use the tool below to help set up your perfect structure.

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Please enter the smallest chip denomination

Please enter a tournament length

Please enter the number of players

This section discusses some tournament blind structure theory, which explains why the PokerSoup.com tournament blind structure calculator suggests blind levels the way it does and what you can change to create the right blind structure for your game.

Starting Number of Blinds

Most tournaments start with 50-100 big blinds. Anything around 200 big blinds is considered a 'deep stack' tournament. Deep stack tournaments are considered to be full of skillful poker play and not just pushing your money all in before the flop. The latter occurs quickly in tournaments that start with less than 50 big blinds, which are also aptly nick-named 'luck-fests'. There just aren't enough chips to maneuver and play real poker.

If all other variables are held constant, starting a tournament with larger chip stacks will increase the length of the game.

Rebuys and Add-ons

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The number of rebuys and add-ons in a tournament also effect the total number of chips in play during a tournament. If no other changes are made, more rebuys and add-ons make for a longer tournament.

Blind Level Round Length

Most live tournaments employ blind level lengths of 15, 20, 30, 45, or 60 minutes. The blind calculator can calculate blinds for any of these blind levels. With a set tournament length, longer blind levels result in less number of rounds and shorter blind levels result in more rounds.

Gradual Blind Increase

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The greatest benefit of using the PokerSoup.com tournament blind structure calculator is the assurance of constantly increasing blind amounts. This is an important aspect of tournament play. If the blinds increase (preferably slowly) at a constant rate, players do not spend an inordinate amount of time being deep- or short-stacked and there are no game-altering blind increases in the middle of the tournament.

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For example, if the blinds increase from 150/300 to 200/400, that is an increase of 33%, or (200+400)/(150+300). This is a comfortable increase. Similarly, in the later stages of the tournament after many players are knocked out, a blind increase from 3000/6000 to 4000/8000 is also 33%.

End Goal

Eventually, the blinds (and antes) induce action to end the tournament. After all, a tournament usually does have a set duration (or a goal, anyway). As a player, it is up to you to figure out how aggressive it is necessary to play in order to keep up with the blinds. Constant gradual increases make this easier to figure out.