Conversion from online tournament structure to live?
I was bored at work so I decided to post some random questions for people to discuss about if their bored!
Since live is much slower in number of hands played per hour compared to online, I would assume maybe thats why online sites decided to have lower chip stacks and shorter levels?
Lets say for example you have the following tournament live:
5k starting chips, 20 min levels
25-25
25-50
50-100
100-200
150-300
200-400
200-400
300-600 25
400-800 25
500-1000 50
500-1500 50
1000-2000 100
etc..
What do you guys think this structure would be equivilent to online? A standard 1500 freezeout structure on Pokerstars? Or maybe a deepstack structure on Fulltilt?
I've always wondered what structures online are equivilent to certain structures Live.
Is there any programs out there that can do a comparison of a live structure compared to an online structure?
Since live is much slower in number of hands played per hour compared to online, I would assume maybe thats why online sites decided to have lower chip stacks and shorter levels?
Lets say for example you have the following tournament live:
5k starting chips, 20 min levels
25-25
25-50
50-100
100-200
150-300
200-400
200-400
300-600 25
400-800 25
500-1000 50
500-1500 50
1000-2000 100
etc..
What do you guys think this structure would be equivilent to online? A standard 1500 freezeout structure on Pokerstars? Or maybe a deepstack structure on Fulltilt?
I've always wondered what structures online are equivilent to certain structures Live.
Is there any programs out there that can do a comparison of a live structure compared to an online structure?
Comments
There are two standard ways to compare tournaments. One is to use Arnold Snyders, "Poker Tournament Formula". The other is to calculate the 1 hour M.
The one hour M is the M of a starting stack after an hour of getting blinded out.
The multiply the online one hour M by a conversion factor to account for the differences in hands/hour between live and online (approximately 2)