Poker tournaments have blinds that increase over time in order to force action and bring the tournament to an end. As a tournament is not over until one player has all the chips, the mounting blinds are a necessity or the tournament could go on forever. The question is, how high they have to get to end the tournament? Figuring this out is the first step towards building a good tournament blind structure.

I will walk you through the logic I use for determining this end point:

Step 1: Determine total chips in play