[CybrPunk]

The best tournaments on Stars are the ones that have guaranteed prizepools. They have the softest fields and most amount of dead money. This is especially true in rebuy tournaments where many players fatten the pool by playing manically while others are dead money simply because they drop in the first hour. That being said, they are also the longest running tournaments on Stars. The $10k and $20k ($3 rebuys) can run about 10+ hours on average and the $5-10 rebuys can run anywhere from 7-10 hours.

If your goal is swift resolution then look toward the 180 and 360 player tournaments. Some of the mid buy-in non-guarantees can draw smaller fields at times but generally anything that's under $20 is going to attract a large enough field that the tournament will take at least 5 or more hours to complete. Even the 180s can run as many as 4+ hours in some (somewhat rare) cases.