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How is the patience factor calculated? What is it exactly? Just how long it takes for you to be blinded off?
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Patience factor is based on blind off time (it's actually blind off time squared). It's used to compare the speed of different structures. Snyder's book, "The Poker Tournament Formula," discusses it in detail. It also explains how to use it to determine other things such as the approximate playing time to reach the final table based on structure and field size. His
web site has some explanation and lists patience factors for some tournaments for comparison. They also have a downloadable Excel spreadsheet for computing PF.