Tournament basics

Your stack in big blinds

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A common unit

Stack ÷ big blind = stack in BB. This unit expresses how many big blinds your chips represent. Compare the example’s numbers with the computed result.

Your stack: 60,000 chips

BlindsAnte
Level 1Blinds 1,000 / 2,000BBA 2,000

60,000 ÷ 2,000 = 30 BB

Your turn

How many big blinds do you have?

Your stack: 36,000 chips

Blinds 1,000 / 2,000

Answer the exercise to continue.