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How do you guys like the Late Reg's ?
I dont mind the 60 Mins on the normal speed tournaments, might even say I like them for being able to join 45 Minutes in, with reasonable blinds, and relatively close to already being ITM.
I HATE the 120 Minutes ones however, you are in there forever and the remaining players list just keeps going up.
the big GTD Rebuy tournaments 90 Minutes late reg period is also somewhere you can exploit ( ProBlackbird tip ) !
i hate the ones on a.c./bcp and few on carbon where was like 3 hrs l8 reg smh
3hrs is simply retarded.
I hate the Merge tourney with a 3 hr late reg for a dollar tournament!!! If I'm playing a $1 tourney, I want it OVER in 2-3 hours, not still registering!!!
rghy2 = hotter than hot
I dont like 3 hour late registration its awful. The last GTD tourney I played in on bcp for 300 I started it at 12:00 am and didnt get finished till 5:10 in the morning only to finish 16th and get a whole 5.80 which the buy in for the tournament was 3.30 so I can make alot more money in the cash games alot quicker or even sports bet but damn on those 120 minute late registration.
late reg morethan 20mins is unnecessary
Its just the sites way of getting every cent off everyone it can.. why else would they have any late reg over 1 hour its all about the money for them not the player.
The new late reg policy on merge for the micros is absurd - the ones that pop in in the 3rd hour just go all-in hoping to get lucky, but damage a lot of steady players in their wakes
Explain how they damage steady players? If you are a solid player you want these dead money situations because by this time you should have these players stacked easily 5 to 1 or better, which means you are risking 20% of your stack to be a 3 to 2 favorite or better every time. Sure, they are going to get lucky on occasion, but I'm always more than happy to take money from the guy who spends $5 + on a dollar tourney just hoping to make it to the bubble where he'll most likely be knocked out still losing money. These people rarely make it to the top 5 paid positions, so allowing them to keep jumping back in short is highly beneficial to the players who only buy in before the 4th to 6th blind level (depending on deep stack tourney or not). If an ante has begun then don't buy back in, that simple. Let the idiots create dead money that increases prize pool and take for the smart players. Also, complaining about it isn't going to change anything. The sites need to make money too or else we Americans aren't going to have anywhere to play. So they take most of the money they need from the idiots willing to invest $5 in a single $1 tourney.Quote:
Originally Posted by HopsnBarley28
i also have to say that i absolutely hate the 180 minute late reg on bcp, and actually it is 195 minutes because they don't count the break as part of the tourney so if a tourney starts at noon late reg actually ends at 3:15 so it is actually 180 minutes of game play. i'll say it again i freaking hate it, BUT if they didn't have it odds are that there wound be a great deal less of GTDs maybe not less in number of tournaments, but they would have to lower the amount of guaranteed money, so its really give and take.
On the internet it is inevitable that tourneys are going to have late reg personally i think that 60 minutes is appropriate amount of time.
Hate them, love them!
pokerstars is just as bad with 120 min late reg i think if you dont get there on time you shouldnt be able to play, you couldnt turn up to the word series late and say my bad i slept in! lol i know its not the same thing but fair is fair..
The shorter the better. Anything more then 10 minutes is to long. I know that they are trying to get more people to play but if people really wanted to play they would sign up early. More then 10 minutes is to far into the tournament to sign up.
Anything more than 10 to 20 minutes of late registration is too much. If you wanted to play, you'd sign up on time.
I honestly do not really care that much because most of the time the people who register at the last moment register when they blinds are so high that their stack is between 6 bbs - 10 bbs. If I am still in at this point I have at least double that and most of the time a lot more. They just add money to the pot, so I am actually very ok with it.
I'm with Chad. You've got to learn to play against the randomizers.
I like the 3 hour late reg on BCP, I reg at last minute and then double up once and I'm ITM!
You certainly can late register in WSOP and live tournaments. Hell you can re-enter at Foxwoods in just about anything.
yep, u can definitely take adv of the noobies but certainly not against the very good regs who will reenter relentlessly until they have a good stack. thats why u see a lot of good players always making deep runs in the tournies cause they have the ability to spend as much bullets needed without damaging their BR.Quote:
Originally Posted by chadherczeg
i agree... 60 min is perfect... i get annoyed when there is no late reg at all, hate missing tourneys by like 1 minQuote:
Originally Posted by qcnb
It is obviously so that they can make the guarantees larger which is fine in my opinion although 3 hours does seem to be a little excessive.
I never did like late reg.
About the only tournies I consider using late reg myself are sometimes the 1R1A tournies as it can help to reg right before rebuy ends. Another is satties with R/A
I do agree anything over 1 hour is way to long except for some of the biggest tournies
yeah depends on how far the tourney is in and if it's a turbo. I dont like buying in a little late for most part instead of playing from beginning
Sixty minutes is fine..120 minutes is too long..180 minutes is plain silliness. First of all, I don't have that much time to wait for registration to be done, and what will your reward be for the length of time you spend with the game? What kind of prizepool are we talking about, as well.
A little late registration is fine... like 5 or 10 minutes.... It depends on what kind of tourney it is though