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As far as live tournies, all the local casinos are prolly not gonna have structures that are even close to online. For instance we have a local tourney at harrahs (kc) that is a $40 buyin with a cap of 40 ppl blinds 15min and 6 places paid and the worst part... 1500chips starting at 25/50... unless you goto some WSOP-C/WPT/big series you're not gonna find anything decent.

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This is so true. Live MTT's with <$100 will have an ultra-turbo feel. Quickly turns into a card catching contest if you don't double/triple up early.

Clearly within the realm of possibility to play five $100 tournies and get less than 5 hours of total play.

So if you are hoping to play 8-10 hours of tournament poker each day, like you could in a deep stack format, you're probably under funded for low buy-in tournies.

If you want to play in a couple of $40-$70 tournies each day, take a shot, but be prepared to take in a show or kill some time with other activities.

If you want to take one shot, play a $500 mega-satellite to a WSOP-Circuit or WPT tourney. Say there are 250 entrants and it awards 25 seats. You don't have to win, as 1st pays the same as 25th.

Usually a little better structure in these.

Ask around and be sure you'll be able to sell the seat easily if you don't plan on playing in the Main Event, tho.

When evaluating the blind structure, keep in mind the amount of hands seen in a live tournament will be quite a bit less than on-line. With 15-minute blinds, they'll be escalating every other orbit or so (sometimes every orbit).