The card rooms at the local dog tracks and Jai Alai frontons here run MTTs that start with t1500, blinds 50/100 and increasing every 15 minutes. I've made the 2nd to final table in this thing twice and no further. You need to be slapped in the face with the deck and make some pretty bold plays in order to FT these.

Incidentally, Florida law prohibits losing more than $32 on a single poker hand so their $100 buyin tournaments start as 25/25 limit for the first 3 hands, t2500 to start, to bypass the legal problems. Then it's 15 minutes of 25/25 NL before jumping up to 50/100. Amazing how, at the same room, the cheaper structure is a horrible crapshoot and the higher one actually favors solid play.

I no longer play the cheap buyin MTTs there.