Late MTT Entry or Rebuys

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I know there's a thread about a similar subject out there, but this one involves a tourney with a fairly hefty buy-in.

Last night I was checking in on the Sunday $8M Anniversary event, paying attention to our own Ram and bluff to see how they were doing.

I believe that tourney had a 3 hour late registration. After the Tourney had been running ~ 90 mins and was in 2nd break, I checked the lobby and while the avg stack was ~ 15,000, or 10 times what you'd get buying in that late, people were still joining the tourney.

My thought was "What's the point"? I know most if not all these late players were winners of tickets of late Sattys, but I kept wondering why anyone would bother, being that short stacked to start? And surely to hell nobody is paying $215 that late............................................. are they????

Things that make you go "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm".
 
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theres a lot of poker players where 215 dollars isnt a big deal to take a shot with on tournaments, sadly not one of them myself!
 
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I guess that is true !.....either way if someone is playing that full buy in, they should be on time when game starts ....Otherwise playing short stack in such tournament is in my opinion suicide..when taking into account that there might still be some fishes who are trying luck playing crazy AI mode to get chips ....
 
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theres a lot of poker players where 215 dollars isnt a big deal to take a shot with on tournaments
Exactly. If you happened to see a $1 freezeout tournament with a huge juicy prize pool 90 minutes after it started would you join regardless of the current average stack in relation to the buy in? A dollar is peanuts, especially when 1st pays $5000. To a WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE $200 is peanuts... especially when 1st place pays $1M.

Everything is relative. Sit at a .01/.02 game sometime and watch the play. Now tell me who the moron is... the guy 4 betting preflop to 30 cents with air or the guy endlessly complaining about the quality of play in a penny game? ;)
 
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Disregarding the fact that $200 does not mean much to them, what were the blinds at? What is the starting stack?
There are some who register late on purpose because they don't want to play deep stacked. Not all of them are bad players, some of them are extremely good at what they do.
As for getting in through late satellites, they can't unregister those. They are automatically registered and thus entered in the moment they get a ticket. You only have time to unregister if you win a ticket before the tourney has started.
 
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Back when US players could play on pokerstars, I joined their Sunday million once after the first break. My reason was to avoid a lot of the loose play early. Blinds were still fairly small, the average chip stack was less than12,000 (compared to my 10,000 starting stack) and by that point, more than 1,000 players had already gone out. It only took me a few hands to win a decent-sized pot to get back up above the chip average. I wound up finishing 63rd in the tournament and winning more than $2,500 - my biggest payday on Stars. Ah, the good old days.
 
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some People like playing short stack games . and in sm after 1 hour even if they join , the blinds are 80/160 , means apprx 48 bb to start wth ( 10k stack). thats good enough for many to Play with . and ya by then almost 1k Players might ve gone out already . so ya for some Players this s Advantage for them
 
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I checked the lobby and while the avg stack was ~ 15,000, or 10 times what you'd get buying in that late

starting stack in this one is 10000 chips, so average is just 1,5 x.
I don't know how big the blinds were at that time, but still I think 10000 chips is not that short, at least enough to play with.
 
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You (and I) have to remember the value of a dollar is all relative, what $215 dollars is to me, being on Social Security, might be only $25 to someone else or even less than that for others. Take care
 
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