03-07-2009 20:17 UTC-7 Double the Chips, Double the Blinds [user75032] For Round Three, players start with 80,000 chips. Initial blinds are 600 and 1,200, then increasing every fifteen minutes to 800 / 1,600, 1,000 / 2,000, 2,000 / 4,000, 3,000 / 6,000 and finally 4,000 / 8,000.