If you want to play a quick tournament (About 2 hours), start each player with 2,000 chips and play with 20-minute levels. Here is the structure for a quick tournament. If by some chance you're still playing beyond level 10, keep doubling the blinds every 20 minutes from there until one player has all the chips.
Short Tournament Structure
| Quick Texas Hold'em Tournament Structure |
| Level | Small Blind | Big Blind |
| Level 1 | 25 | 50 |
| Level 2 | 50 | 100 |
| Level 3 | 100 | 200 |
| Level 4 | 200 | 400 |
| Players take 10-minute break |
| Level 5 | 300 | 600 |
| Level 6 | 500 | 1,000 |
| Level 7 | 1,000 | 2,000 |
| Level 8 | 2,000 | 4,000 |
| Level 9 | 4,000 | 8,000 |
| Level 10 | 5,000 | 10,000 |
