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Message: [QUOTE="Weregoat, post: 1377541, member: 62741"] Hey guys. I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to live tournaments. I saw a post on here a little while back about a tournament I had been considering at the Bike. (Depending on the time of year, they run nooners and midnight MTTs for like $40 with a $10 take.) I know that's high, especially compared to online when you're paying the house 10%, instead of 25% of the buy-in. But the overhead for running B&M tournaments (paying and tipping dealers/floormen, paying security, maintaining property, lease, electricity, etc, as opposed to handling bandwidth requirements, keeping servers up, paying customer service, etc) - But that's now why I'm posting this question - I guess my main concern is this: What blind structure/starting chip stack would be ideal? Obv if you start with 10k chips and the blinds are 5/10 and go up every 30 minutes and two hundred people are playing, you're going to be there forever, but what are some good numbers should I be looking at? 1k chips starting at 10/20 going up every 20 mins seems a bit fast, but I don't really know how to compare that to say . . . 3000 chips starting at 10/20 going up every 20 minutes. And I know the argument has been made that the casino wants the tournament to be as fast as possible - allowing the players to get back to other tables, etc, so they can make more money. Just curious what I should be looking for . . . Also, does anybody know the structure for the WSOP main event? I think I heard on ESPN you get 10k chips (O.o), but that was years ago and I was [B]PROBABLY[/B] drunk. Thanks in advance. Oh ya! I'm looking more for experience playing in tourneys than maximum profitability. This will be an 'on the side project' to my serious attempt at B&M poker here next year. [/QUOTE]

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