 To me, it's about odds...
If you play heads up against someone, you have a 50/50 chance to beat him if you're of equal skill, but maybe it's 60/40, 70/30, who knows?
If you play a single-table tourney, you have to beat 10 people. What are those odds? Maybe a little better than 10% if you're good? 15%? 20%? Certainly not much more than that.
As you add tables, I think your odds (of making the money, not of winning) are capped around there. However, the number of "coin flips" required to get there, to build your stack from 1,000 chips to 10,000 or whatever you need for the final table, gets larger and larger.
For me, 50-100 has worked best in terms of making the money, but I have a looooong way to go.
And yeah, the freerolls are way too loose. |