Insomniac_1006
Visionary
Silver Level
I am guessing that you are not buying in at $1000 or more, and are playing with what most people consider disposable income, so more people will donk it off.
Plus I think that in the live mega tourney (haven't played one myself...) that the blinds don't go up as fast.
On Bodogs daily 5000 person freeroll, 1500 will be gone in the first 15 minutes.
Plus I think that in the live mega tourney (haven't played one myself...) that the blinds don't go up as fast.
On Bodogs daily 5000 person freeroll, 1500 will be gone in the first 15 minutes.
SeanyJ
Legend
Silver Level
Blinds go up faster, buy ins usually aren't as big, and you get dealt a lot more hands in an hour than you would see live. Oh and poker sites give you ~1 minute max to make a decision, in a live tournament you can sit there for 5 minutes waiting for someone to decide.
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DLMoose
Enthusiast
Silver Level
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DLMoose
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OzExorcist
Broomcorn's uncle
Bronze Level
^^ this.
Probably one other thing too - it depends on the game and the venue, but quite often live chip stacks are deeper than online tournaments.
Take the Main Event of this year's wsop: two-hour levels, 20,000 starting stacks, and the initial blinds were only 50-100.
In the average online tournament, you might be starting with: 10 minute levels, 1500 stating stacks and initial blinds of 15-30.
That's a 200BB stack vs a a 50BB stack.
That said, there are some online tournaments that go for quite some time. Didn't the main event of the WCOOP at Stars run for like 19 hours the other week?
pigpen02
Legend
Silver Level
The deep stack tournaments on pokerstars take over 12 hours. The Sunday noon (EST) tournament is still running with 6 players left.
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thasauce7
Rock Star
Silver Level
Definitely the blind structures. Ft is having a FTOPS event that lasts 2 days, and wanna guess why?????? 30 min blind levels. before you start telling me pokerstars has some tourneys that run with 30 min blinds, remember that pokerstars blind structure jumps quite a bit.
royalburrito24
Legend
Silver Level
it is not running for 2 days straight, it is a 2 day event.
You play the first day until a certain blind level is reached or until a certain amount of people are gone. Then, you come back the next day and finish the tournament. Full Tilt is making this a 2 day event because it is a $2,500 + entry fee buy-in...This is one of the larger tournament buy ins on the internet, if not the largest. They had this event in the last FTOPS and there were 100 players or so (cannot remember off the top of my head).
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DLMoose
Enthusiast
Silver Level
Thanks
Thanks, I'm learning that. It is hard to fold AK suited on the first few hands when one or two players go allin because you will lose most of the time. I can now make the first break most of the time.
pigpen02
Legend
Silver Level
This post has NOTHING to do with the thread.
Semicolonkid
Rock Star
Silver Level
riverboatrat
Visionary
Silver Level
dont forget that at every live event there's some idiot who keeps asking "Who is it to speak? oh me? how much was the raise?"
a full and difficult hand can take up to 10 minutes to be played, where as online, you have 30 seconds, no shuffling, automated dealing and when its your turn to act, you'll know.
a full and difficult hand can take up to 10 minutes to be played, where as online, you have 30 seconds, no shuffling, automated dealing and when its your turn to act, you'll know.
