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if anyone remembers, i believe a year or so ago one night(might have happened more than once, i can only recall it happening once) they introduced a super deepstacks horse, which was 33$ buyin and 10k starting stack. the structure resembled this, and it took about 3 hours if not longer for the first person to bust.
I think this is a common mistake made by people who are too used to setting up NL tourneys. In NL, it's relatively easy to change a structure from "normal" to "deep" by simply increasing the starting stack size. Strictly speaking, all this does is delay the final table until stacks become as deep as they would have been with normal starting stacks. However, for most of the tourney, it plays deeper and most people don't notice that it ends up playing like a normal final table (because most people are long gone).
However, a true "deep" tourney has far more to do with the length of the level intervals and the average % increase at each level change. It's the % increase in the BB/hour (or, more accurately, /hand) that defines how deep a given structure will play. That's why last year's 100% level increases were so devastating at the end of the 5K HORSE. There is no real difference between 50% increases every 15 minutes and 100% increases every 30 minutes. You just get a much bigger shock at the transition.