Yup very crazy, like I said on some my posts. That's the reason why I stoped to play on Merge network. For they had the best poker graphics and animation but this is very stupid, obv they don't like the overlay.
Only see this on the super deep high rollers - $530, 6 hours. The super deep $215 are close at 4 - 5, the rest seem to be 3:15 (still long) or less. WPN had a $16 megastack with 5 hours late reg. today :s: - as long as their $540 million.
That is one of the more frustrating things about carbon tournaments. It just seems very difficult to play through the 3+ hours of late registration. Many times it seems like there will be 70 ITM and over 150 left at the end of the 3 hours. Just seems a bit of an overkill. Definitely do not think it is good for poker, but I don't think it is bad either.