Online Turneys only take Hours not Days, WHY?

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.

A lot more hands are played per hour. Dealing is automated, responses are faster, not talking, etc.

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.

i played in a rigged online touney once, it was like i win a hand then someone else win one, then me again. lasted about 4 and half days.

it was really weird they rigged it that way, but what ever.

Yeah, I can see why, but you would think they would last long then they do.

Wow, when did you sleep???

at night???

^^ 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?

The deep stack tournaments on PokerStars take over 12 hours. The Sunday noon (EST) tournament is still running with 6 players left.

Because of the all-in button. Weeeeeeee!

i like french's answer...but even at the livetables and tourneys you get the all in freaks.

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.

because it dont take the computer as long to pick who it wants to win online tournaments.

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).

Many thanks to all that responed to my Question. I have a much clearer picture now. Some things I did not consider. Thanks again---DLMoose

Just play tight till the first break, most likely more than half the field will be gone

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.

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lol I'm sorry that's just hilarious!

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.

easy the blinds move much faster online then they do live.. also your given a lot more time to think about your hand in live poker not just 30 secs

plus it takes time to count chips, online is an easy number..but thats a miniscule diff, the real diff is the blinds and the buy ins, as has been stated numberous times above