Re: Solution to Limit Tournament Crapshoot Structure- Comments Appreci
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You need to keep to the limits rising so that the tournament won't last forever. The solution is to make the early levels both higher and longer. Right now the early levels are meaningless. But if more people are eliminated/build big stacks in the early levels, the average stack in the middle levels will be higher.
If players don't want to be aggressive and just wait around for great hands, they should be forced to risk their stack on a single hand.
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I think this is about right. Half the problem is that there is a mindset of "the levels are all the same length and the blinds increase gradually". There's no reason why the first four levels shouldn't be just one level, with limits such that a starting stack = 4 or 5 hands to the river. Then start to increase. When you basically don't eliminate anyone in the first three levels, it's bound to be too fast later on.
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