Why I prefer Full Tilt's Tournament Structure
In a tournament, drastic increases in the blinds can cripple your stack and eliminate plays available to you. For example, say you have a stack of 1000 chips, with blinds of 25/50. With 20bbs, you can play some poker. You can raise, c-bet then make your decision on the turn as to go with it or not. Or you can lay it down on the flop and still have a reasonable stack. Or you can 3-bet pre-flop and get it in on the flop. My point is, with that stack you have a very reasonable amount of play. This is where Full Tilt and Merge's tournament structure completely diverge. Full Tilt goes to 30/60 blinds at the next level, whereas Merge goes to 50/100. 30/60 blinds will limit some of the plays that a 1000 chip stack can make, e.g. 3 betting pre-flop is likely to be all in, and so is a raise of a c-bet on the flop. But not in the same manner that going to 50/100 is. 50/100 cripples a 1000 chip stack completely. A 1000 chip stack will be reduced to pushing or folding pre-flop most likely. Frankly, this is unacceptable. One level should not affect play that drastically. And merge's structure does this. And I hate it.
