Originally posted on 12/27/2011:

Quote Originally Posted by downsouth View Post
I rarely played it but always thought the 10pm was the most popular. Anyways, would you guys really want long, slow structured tourneys where Ryder cup and future will be based on number of cashes, amounts, etc. Its hard if you have wife, kids, or any sort of life to sit down and play tourney for 3 plus hours a day. Faster tourneys with shorter blind structure may push the action a little faster but it at least allows to play daily and still have time to do other things with your free time.
Quote Originally Posted by 70kgman View Post
How about going back to top 10 places paid? There shouldn't be a bubble boy at the final table. And +1 for this suggestion seeing as they are now 55 player tourneys. Accelerating the blind changes from 7 minutes to 5 minutes should do the trick.
Under the 2011 blind structure, a typical tournament was 1:15-1:30. There is no need to speed it up further, and indeed doing so would be detrimental to the game considering that the tournaments already become 80% luck at or before the bubble usually.

I do agree that 10 should be paid. 9 paid from a final table of 10 is just weird.