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Originally Posted by monikrazy
I still feel pretty torn about which o8 tournament would be better for me to play assuming I can play only 1. WSOP is less rake and field is probably slightly weaker but 7500 starting chips makes me cringe. By my calculations the venetian (20K starting chips) should give at least 90 more minutes of play if the cards don't go my way early, even accounting for the faster & steeper structure. The flexibility to play more aggro/Laggish styles for longer is signifigant, I think it should result in me cashing more often.
Similarly some of the Binion 365s have decent looking structures but 17.8% rake.
The WSOP event has a much better structure. Having a very deep starting stack is really bad for limit tournaments. It just makes the early levels meaningless and often forces the tournament to skip levels later in the tournament.
And this is exactly what the Venetian tournament does. The levels are much shorter and the 250/500 and 2.5k/5k levels are skipped. In exchange, you start with 75 big bets, which is too many.
For no-limit events, there are plusses and minus to the structure of the WSOP versus Venetian (and other places). But for limit tournaments, the WSOP at least gets it mostly right, while almost everywhere else runs them terribly.