Harrah's WSOP qualifier

Over the weekend Harrah's here ran their first qualifier for the WSOP. It's $200+50, and you start with 3000 chips. Win your table of 10 and you sit with the other 9 winners of their respective tables.

Have a question about the blind structure, b/c it seems extremely fast to me. Blinds go as such changing every 15 minutes.

25-50
50-100
100-200
200-400
10 min break
500-1000
1000-2000
2000-4000
4000-8000

The poker guy at Harrah's said that they added a level of blinds to try and slow it down a little. It still seems so fast that even with a sizeable chip lead someone could be reduced to going all-in no matter what they have when it comes down to 3-handed or heads-up.

I've only played online tournaments, so I'm not sure, but isn't this blind structure super-fast, and doesn't it mitigate some of the skill advantage a good player would have over an average player?

Ted

[RollaJ]

It is pretty fast since the blinds litteraly double every 15 minutes.
Yes, it does take a lot of skill out of the game, but as long as people play, the casino would rather have it over faster