Virtues of the MTT
If you are looking for the best investment and return on your money in the world of online tournament poker, I might argue that the limited MTTs (multi table tournaments), where fields are restricted to a certain set below 100, are the way to go. In these situations you are not against a field of however many come along, often ranging up into several to many hundreds. You are also not solely limited to one table full of people, where the money is much less.
MTTs of 60, 80, or thereabouts create an atmosphere where your field is wide enough to build a large prize pool, but small enough that you aren’t spending hours on end. You still see the early to middle shrinkage where the more aggressive players bust out quickly and pare the fields down, essentially translating a certain amount of dead money that you never have to reckon with as they are at other poker tables.
With smaller field MTTs, because it takes less time to play out, you also less often end up in a free for all where the blinds are so high you have to push every other hand, which happens frequently in the larger scale online poker tourneys.
