A Great Structure?
McDonald pointed out that the recent SCOOP tournament series run on PokerStars had such great structures that players were coming to the final table extremely deep in chips. "Compared to online, this structure sucks," joked McDonald.
Obviously, the EPT structure is excellent for live tournaments (one-hour levels, 200 big blind starting stacks). McDonald's point was that, because online poker plays so much more quickly than live poker, the 30-minute levels that were used for the high-stakes SCOOP events were a comparatively better structure.