Can Anyone Explain FT's $24+2 Guarantees to Me?

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I'm a bit completely confused.

Full Tilt has multiple tournaments available for winners of their little $26 tokens. Three guarantees I found are $2k, $7k, and $10k.

ALL of these have 3600 player caps and 9-man mins.

Why on earth would you register for one of the lesser prize pool tournaments?

Can someone explain this to me?
 
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They lesser guarntees are held on lower trafic times at the site so less people will be in it,hence the less money guarneteed.

btw the guarantees on the big sites (FT,PS) never(never say never but basicly) have overlays.
 
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They lesser guarntees are held on lower trafic times at the site so less people will be in it,hence the less money guarneteed.

btw the guarantees on the big sites (FT,PokerStars) never(never say never but basicly) have overlays.

Ah, thanks. I figured about as much, but the fact that all the tournaments had the same max player numbers threw me. Do these tournaments ever bump into the max number?
 
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Ah, thanks. I figured about as much, but the fact that all the tournaments had the same max player numbers threw me. Do these tournaments ever bump into the max number?
They larger guarantees fill up allot of the times(obvs. do to the sites market research).

And yeah i just saw that i didnt really answer your original "why play the smaller ones" Well basicly because some people are better at say 100-300 man tourneys and others at 1000-2000 man tourneys.
 
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Makes sense. Thanks for the help, sindri. =)
 
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They larger guarantees fill up allot of the times(obvs. do to the sites market research).

And yeah i just saw that i didnt really answer your original "why play the smaller ones" Well basicly because some people are better at say 100-300 man tourneys and others at 1000-2000 man tourneys.

The only events I've ever seen really max out were some of the lower buyin FTOPS events. I remember the $120+$9 maxed out and I think the main event was close. That was during the last FTOPS series though, dunno about this time around.
 
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i havent really seen any fill up either... usually they get to around 1000 people max and stop there
 
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It also depends on the game typically a 24+2 buy in will be NLHE and have a 10k + prizepooll but for a game like razz it could only be 2k-5k
 
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Also, if you only have 3 hours to play a tournament and not 5 or 6, by looking at the smaller guarantees, you can get into one that you have enough time to play.
 
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