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Originally Posted by Mr Rick
I prefer longer levels. Especially when we start with few chips like the WSOP Senior and Super Senior events where you start with 20,000 chips but have 1 hour levels.
The best way to increase min cashes is to reduce the % of players who cash. 15% is ridiculously high in my opinion. I'm used to 12% usually in the US and sometimes 10%. In Prague at Rebuy Stars it was 10% of initial buy ins and 5% of rebuys so it ended up usually at about 8%. Which meant the min cashes were very high.
15% is probably a bit high. It was introduced, I think, in order to allow events to get in the money day 1. This is a good thing. And perhaps that becomes difficult with 12.5% and hour long levels. Another reason why day 1 doesn’t have to be that slow.
I agree that 20k chips is too little in modern poker, but I’m not sure anything above 40k is at all necessary. Even 30k is probably fine as long as levels aren’t skipped.
It’s not easy to create a perfect structure since there are always competing interests. But I think structures can remain good as far as depth is concerned but still be better from a playability and ROI on time invested standpoint. Who really wants to put in 16 hours of poker and get nothing for it? Poker tournaments are always going to be a lottery to some degree, but it doesn’t have to be as big a lottery as it is now. And really, outside of the minuscule number of players who actually win these things, who would complain if they were structured to benefit those who cash in a more meaningful way?