Recently, I caught a glimpse of the series put on by the Aria, can't remember the buy in but probably around 25k.
They showed a couple of tables on screen, and at each table were 5 players; there may have been more tables but memory eludes me but the level was 3k, 6k with a 6k big blind ante.
I glanced at a Venetian structure and at 3k,6k the ante was 1k and the ante was also 1k at the next level of 4k,8k.
You do the numbers.
The Aria series has low numbers of entrants( less than 100 and more likely 50+) in many of the events and so these guys are paying a premium amount for a pitiful structure across the board. I believe they do increase the starting stacks but do not know the numbers.
The Aria is using the big blind ante at all of their dailies and have increased their starting stacks to 12k from 10k but its an illusion, and again ,pathetic.
If there is any good in this type of ante system it is not for the player and was never meant to be for the player , even if the player that thinks his arm will fall off if he has to put in antes. LOL
There is no flaw in the regular ante system which has been replaced (at the Aria at least) by a poorly thought out system , supposedly and quietly to the house's advantage ( tournaments finish quicker but I don't think they do).
If the house wants to finish a tournament quicker then the route is to decrease the levels ( 30 minutes to 20 minutes or change the structure within) and somehow the thinking is that since the player supossedly gets more hands they can decrease levels to 20 minutes and the player will be better off, just wow !
The propaganda of change for a group that actually does not want to cater to the hoi polloi , those very players who made their room, like it or not.