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Originally Posted by ezdonkey
Wut? Took a glance at last TCOOP 2016 ME and chipleader had a massive 16bb's at the start of final table while everyone else had 10bb and under.
The final table started at 20:30 ET,
five hours after the Event started.
Accounting for breaks, that's about level 55... 700K/1400K (a175K). The blinds do have to progress as the tournament moves along. The fact that a Turbo even made it to Level 55 says plenty about how much depth there was leading up to that point (and throughout play). At some point, if you play long enough in any tournament without being eliminated, the blinds are going to catch up to the stacks.
Starting Stack: 20,000 chips
Level at the end of...
30 minutes: 40/80
60 minutes: 150/300
90 minutes: 500/1000
120 minutes: 1500/3000
150 minutes: 5000/10000
It takes until level 34, 170 minutes of play time into a Turbo, before the big blind is equivalent to 1 starting stack. In a typical Turbo on the site, that takes place 50 minutes earlier in Level 24. Even in the Hot Turbos, that point is reached 35 minutes earlier in Level 27.
Anyway, the point was that TCOOP Events are turbos, but they're *COOP turbo Events, with tons of room to play... not that they're deep as compared to other *COOP Events.
One other thing I noticed...
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Originally Posted by ezdonkey
True yeah. However the 1k NL (I don't play PLO) starts 10:30pm where I live (FI) and runs for about 11-12 hours, I think? Starting tournaments this late usually takes a toll on trying to have some normal life outside of poker during the week. I'd imagine recreational players with real life & job commitments have it even more difficult to cope with this. For Canadian & Brazilian players the time slot is obviously ideal, and since most recreational players probably come from that region, I guess European players have to cope with it. (Although I don't have any data, I'd assume UK contributes to recreational player pool a lot.)
Recreational players making a habit of playing $1Ks? That seems... odd, to say the least.