Live PokerStars AMA with BryanS: 10/17 @ 16:00 ET (Closed)

[Brian Boyko]

How do you determine the "proper" blind levels for tournaments on Stars?

Will there be Zoom tournaments?

[BryanS - PokerStars]

How do you determine the "proper" blind levels for tournaments on Stars?

Will there be Zoom tournaments?

We have a few baseline structures that have been in place for quite a long time, and general ideas - both from gut/experience and from hard analysis of run rates in the past - of how long most of them take. When setting up a new tournament, we choose from among the available types, and sometimes fiddle with them as necessary for various reasons, such as perhaps flattening out the rate of blind increase during late registration, a rebuy period, etc. We use Excel quite a lot for evaluating structures, as well as for writing new ones.

Zoom tournaments are being developed.