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Originally Posted by teddyrowe9
I initially had complained a little bit as to what I perceived as the structures of the tournaments being really fast, but I'm thinking now that the software is so good/fast compared to the sites I've played on post BF, that the structures are actually fine.
I've only played 23 tournaments so far, which has included 1,779 hands over 13.7 hours, which comes out to about 129 hands/hour. Not bad! Granted, I've played more 6-max on PokerStars than ACR, etc. But I'd be curious to know how many hands/hour others are getting in on Stars and compared it to their usual slate of tournaments on ACR, etc.
It definitely does not seem like the structure is as good as pre-black Friday, but it's not horrible.
I did notice that the lower buy-in tourneys $1 - $5 only have a 2500 chip starting stack vs. 5000. The standard tourney blinds are 8 min., while the turbos are 6 min. That's not much of a difference in time, although I did not look closely at the actual blind level structure.
As someone who has been playing on Carbon Poker exclusively since 2010, I do appreciate that late registration is *only* 2 hours on PokerStars (on Carbon it was 2 hr 45 min. or longer just so they could hit their guarantees).