[MLG]

Well, online some tournaments certainly have stronger fields than others. Generally high buy-in tournaments that do not have sats run for them have the most difficult fields. So, many live 5k events (when they will be followed by a 10k event) have difficult and small fields. In my opinion the bigger the field the better, since I think I'm better than the vast majority of players in a tournament each extra player that is added gives me more EV since they have a smaller chance of winning than I do. While its nice to have longer levels and bigger stack sizes given that those factors impact the whole field equally I don't worry about them too much. While slow structures do allow for more play, short of a complete crap shoot most structures dont reduce your edge over poorer players enough to make them not worth playing.