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Which is better, a small field or large field? % payout is the same but of course the large fields' payout is larger.

Halli

Hallo

@Dave

..in a large field you have more time to build up !!..and its easily to go down fighting the bubble

servus Lefti

I think they both have their own merits larger is obviously good because of the prizepool but if u get too large it could end up that u have to take too many risks just to stay in that you wouldnt need to take in a smaller game. I think it depends on lots of things, starting chip stack, game, quality of players etc...

Ok, I'll ask it differently....which is easier to:

1. Get ITM?

2. Win?

LOL the answer to that is quite clearly smaller, is it not? Thats surely like saying is it easier to come first in a marathon against one person or 50000

SMALL FIELDS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love em anything from 100 to 300 ppl is a great tourney online if u ask me.

Bigger tournaments like peach allready said require u to not get unlucky so many times it becomes unlikely to score high in the short run.

For instance winning a sunday million (this was like 2 years ago so probably even longer now) would on average cost u 14 years. For me thats a bit to long term to aim for.

14 years that is long

I feel that getting into the money is a lot easier with a bigger field, but then again u only win about 20%-50% of ur buy-in back. going deep where the money gets interesting is a lot harder and winning is close to impossible when playing against 2,500 other players.

I definitely focus on smaller fields now where i can actually aim for some final tabels

I feel that getting into the money is a lot easier with a bigger field

did u mean smaller or am i a fooo ?

lol

no i actually meant that...have the feeling its easier to get into the top 150 of 1500 than it is to get into the top 18 of 180...

oh right lol silly me

Here's a good example:

PokerStars WSOP Qualifier-$650 with 20 seat Guaranteed--probably a small field but only 20 seats.

PokerStars WSOP Qualifier-$370 with 200 seats Guaranteed--probably a huge field but 200 seats.

In which do you have the better chance to win a seat?

Depends on exactly how many runners there are in each

I believe in the PokerStars WSOP Qualifier-$650 with 20 seat Guaranteed--probably a small field but only 20 seats.

Only good thing about large fields, is the amount of fish that have qualified,

but then again would u rather play 200 good players or 700 good players (out of 7000)