Ideal number of chips in multiple tourneys (MTT).

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No offense Egg, but you're numbers are pretty off. Also my personal experience has been that 5500 people tourney are never that short (7-9 hours as your structure implied).

Anyways take 5500 ( # of people) and multiply that by 1500 (starting chip stack) this = 8,250,000 (total chips in play). With me so far?

Take number of chips in play and divide that by number of people left gives you the average. So 8,250,000/50 = 165,000 per player.

If you have 50,000 chips when there are 50 people left then you are in bad shape. It's no where near ideal even if it was a lot of BBs.

Really!?! I never thought about it that way... Thanks a lot!

P.S. I just was trying to mention those super stack plrs that bully table after table collecting +20% of the total chip stack regardless. Anyway, have anymore pointers?