Tourney WSOP Stud Structure Ratios (1 Viewer)

[LunaStarlight]

I was looking through some of the WSOP structure sheets out of curiosity and began to wonder if there’s any pattern to the ratios between the ante, bring-in, small bet, and big bet. Even if their structure isn’t optimal for home games for one reason or another, I am very curious as a math nerd to find the pattern or rule here. I’ve been looking at page 37 of this pdf.
So far I can tell that the small bet and big bet double every three levels. I also found that the ante hovers around 1/5 the small bet and the bring-in hovers around 1/4 the small bet. But this isn’t perfectly consistent - level 27 has a 3:4:12:24 ratio (ante:bring-in:small bet:big bet) while level 30 has a 1:1:4:8 ratio even though both levels have access to the same chip denominations. Is there any rule that always works to find the ante and bring-in given the small bet?

 

[MeridianFC]

Following for any discussion on this. Love me some 7Stude. Math well that's a different issue.

 

[TheRealStephen12]

After analyzing for a bit, it seems it’s 4:5:20:40 starting after level 14, rounding up the ante and bring-in as necessary. Sometimes they choose to do something stupid, but we should expect it from an organization which thinks 200/300-300 is superior to 100/300-300 in NLH.

 

[LunaStarlight]

After using Google Sheets to find the ratios of each level, it looks like the average ratio is 1:1.363:4.516:9.032 or 0.221:0.302:1:2 and the most common ratio is 1:1:4:8.

I also noticed that the Ante is always equal to one of the previous High Card values. Starting at Level 18, the Ante is always exactly equal to the High Card from the previous round.

That led me to check the ratios between just the High Card and Small Bet. I already knew from earlier that the average ratio of those two was 3:10. I found that the only ratios present were 1:3, 1:4, 2:5, and 3:10. The 1:4 ratio was most common, with 1:3 as a close second.