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Burningyen Compares Tournament Structures at the Major Sites Reminded me about some work I had done along the same lines about a year ago. One thing I noticed, in addition to the different blind structures, was the variation in the decay of the field size. To compare this across sites and tournaments, I graphed the Average Stack Size / Cost Per Round versus number of hands played. To collect the data I entered the time, level and average stacksize at ten minute increments for a few tournaments. Cost Per Round is just the sum of the blinds and the antes at that level. I estimated the number of hands to have a linear relationship with the actual time. I think it was about 70 Hands per hour for the online and much less for live. ![]() Notice that by taking into account average stack size, you can compare rebuy tournament slope to freeze-out tournaments. Also notice how most converged around a 10.0 near the end. This is just something I worked on. Just throwing the results out there to get people thinking of ways of quantifying tournament structure, or how to compare tournaments across type/buyin/structure. BTW: The yellow line at the bottom left was a local rebuy tournament with a horrible structure. It was Limit first 2 levels and No Limit after that. Hardly any rebuys to speak of. All estimated based on counting tables while I played. -Bill |
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