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Few people come to Vegas to play a lot of tournaments. The most common complaint about most Vegas tourney's, I'm told, including those with 15 minute blinds and 2000 starting chips where the structure doubles every round, is "2.5 hours is too long". The tourists wanna sit down for an hour or maybe two at most and then move on. So the tourneys with real structures that last >6 hours have to fight that, and there just isn't a large enough locals turnout to keep all of them jumping.