You are a trooper dude. I couldn't fathom keeping my A-game going in a single low buy-in tournament for 14 hours. The money doesn't really keep me going when playing, but when you approach the extremes of time spent in-game, it hurts just a tad thinking it's not something that gives you a better hourly. I don't know how long your average run in this tournament lasts, but if it's 5 hours and your roi is 100%, youre talking about $2/hr in a game that might be costing resources better allocated in other tournaments. Obviously multitabling then combines the expected hourlies of multiple tournaments to generate your expected hourly, and I don't know exactly how much each individual tournament has an impact on your overall roi, but this one might be just a little too much if there's the possibility of putting up any other games. If you were able to get 2 tournaments in that had a lower average run of 4 hours, and an roi of 50%, you've increased hourly by $.50. I'm just throwing ideas around. I'm doing this rough math as I think about it/type it all out. I think I'm getting onto something? I just hate the idea of investing say 12 hours into a tournament only to cash for 50-60 dollars. Even though you may have a high edge in this tournament, I think there might be better games going on. You're just talking about relying on yourself to keep your A-game for an extremely long time for a small payout. Your roi can be high, but if the average length of time in this tournament is significantly greater than other tournaments without being an equally significant proportionate change in roi between tournaments, then youre better off playing something else.

Remember a high ROI means nothing really when you increase the amount of time played by a significant amount. A $10 tournament that lasts an average of 4 hours for you (winning takes 6, losing varies) with an roi of 30% gives an hourly of $.75 per game. A $10 tournament that lasts an average of 8 hours with an roi of 55% nets you $.69 an hour for every tournament played. This is why you find fewer regs in that game. It's full of fish yes, but the field size/length hurts you. Good luck in the future, but I'd shy from thinking not to change something just because your current set up “works” because it is possible to be wrong in your assessment of what's working and what's not working. Over 30 tournaments, your roi can be all over the place. In all honesty, you likely will never know or come anywhere near knowing your true roi for that particular tournament because it's just not something you'll ever have enough data points on. Variance is a thing. I'm just pointing out that youre possibly talking about hurting yourself by not maximizing $ev. If you're one tabling after the first 6 hours, then you're definitely talking about losing value elsewhere. All that said, I love deep stackk games and would probably play this myself if there wasn't anything better and I had the time to dedicate.

See your posts makes me think you don't fully understand what your true roi actually means. Please don't take this as intended to offend or anything, but it's not possible for your ROI to be high enough to come to $23/hour, in the long term for a $11 tournament. Your CURRENT ROI in that tournament may be that. As I said, 30 tournaments is absolutely nothing. I only have 2000 games and I have plenty of 100 game dips and hills that realistically don't actually say anything about where you lie. Say you played nothing but that exact tournament, and you multitabled it. If you played 16 a day, and then played it for a month, you'd have about 320 tournaments. That's still not enough to know or come close to knowing your actual ROI over the field given that structure. You could win it once, lose 319 other times, and still actually have a good ROI, but you wouldn't see it because that's too small of a sample. See what I mean? Your hourly in that tournament is definitely going to be closer to what I said than what you said. That's nothing to say of skill whatsoever. It's literally just math/statistics. If you see this and stilll choose to play it, you really need to accept that it means youre comfortable making a very low amount of money in absolute terms as your hourly. With a small roll, playing with a low hourly is nothing to be unhappy with or anything either. It's gotta build somehow right? But you don't seem to have a small roll if youre playing these massive tournaments. That's why I think you should look at the other deepest tournament types where the field is capped.

That said, you can apply the same analysis in all tournaments/games and guess where you stand based on that new information. You should be looking at any game you may choose to play and make sure you truly believe you have a positive expectation (in investing/math terms, not like “I expect to cash or I'll be mad”), and then you should really make sure your assessment is true to reality, that is it accounts for everything. 

If your preferred game is deep stack post-flop poker, then I think maybe take a look at the final tables of the 15 minute tournaments. Check out the stacks. They're probably pretty comparable to the final table of the 30 miunte level tournament structure.15 minutes is actually on the better, longer end, for online tournaments, and in the US it's the best you see on a daily level. There are a couple of Sunday games I can think of that have 20 minute levels. I would definitely not consider the tournaments in the US to be worse than those in the rest of the world. We get short changed due to our circumstances, but there is nothing shallow about 15 minute levels. Unless the structure is skipping levels, take a look at the 15 minute games. Those games really are deep stacked and won't have only half avg stack final table to final table because the time of levels is only half. I didn't realize it was 30 minute levels and frankly, I really really really suggest playing something else if at ALL possible. That tournament structure/time is absolutely amazing, yes, but you're going to kill your soul all those times you run deep and cash for nothing, and worse than that youll want to kill yourself after a downswing (say 500-1000 of those games only, under the assumption you only played that x 16 every single day) when you then get it in good at the final two tables and lose a 3 outer or 2 outer. That kind of thing hurts more the more time invested. I don't think there's a way around it. The more time invested, the more of an impact a beat has on you. I'm pretty sure anyone saying otherwise would be lying to us and themselves. It's natural and will bother you more because you're only playing this tournament for a large part of your session. If this was part of a 10-40 game session that somehow lasts you all day anyway, then I'd consider having it just to keep you focused during the beginning of the later part of your session, but really that's sooooo long to be playing.