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Originally Posted by KevinGChapman
Certainly true that the potential prize pool size and the number of remaining players are factors. I like the 80BB line as a standard, although they also run whole tournaments that where everybody starts with 40BB, and that works pretty well, so I wonder if 40-50BB is a better floor.
Let's say that the Seniors event has 350 runners with 225 still playing and I can buy back in with 33BB, can at that time the deep stack has 400 runners with 350 still alive (and another two hours left for buy-ins) with 88BB.
Still re-enter Seniors?
With 30 minute levels, 40-50 BB can become a really difficult stack to play in a relatively short amount of time, particularly since pre-flop raises will be large and you will likely be joining a table which has some combination of big and short stacks at it. Variance will be high. I like to start tourneys with enough of a stack to absorb some of that variance. To me 40-50 is not big enough.