Re: Re: [ba-poker] Tourney poker popularity

[Jerrod Ankenman <jankenman(deleted the rest)>]

> Has anyone seen any good studies of how # of
> players in a tournament affects variance?

Bill and I did some off-the-cuff stuff to try to answer this one time. We 
arrived at the idea that the standard deviation (maybe the variance?) of 
buyin-normalized tournament results scales with the square root of the number 
of players.

This involved a bunch of assumptions, of course. We used the Pokerstars payout 
structures (where as # of players goes up, more players are paid and 1st 
becomes a little less percentagewise.)

Jerrod