Late Reg. MTTs

So, I did this the other day, had a surprisingly positive result. Surely I'll get some guff, but eh. Posting anyway, would like to hear feedback either way.

I joined a smaller buy-in tournament with 10-15ish minutes remaining making me super-short stacked- 5ish (or less) big blinds. I just kept shoving all in with any Ace, King, Queen or suited connector and re-bought where necessary (though, I put a "cap" on the re-buys to 4, only needed 1) until quadrupling up. Then just played as I normally would. I know being a "maniacal" player is generally frowned upon, but this actually worked for me. Ended up placing 5th of 200+

Thoughts?

The long term is not so lucrative, sometimes can work, I just enter the reg late in tournaments with a more deep structure.

I've done this too many times... to a negative result.
I have found that in turbos or super turbos doing the late regis for one buyin maybe 2 tops close to the break can be profitable.

Not worth it,unless it was a deep stack tourney.

Personally I late join micro stake tourneys quite often and when i say micro i mean under 1$ buy ins i think there is an upside if ur comfortable playing short stacked and if you know to pick your spots i like to join when i have about 20BB wait for a decent spot with a decent hand shoving or 3bet shoving this has brought me ITM several times i think with micro stakes under 1$ its better to join late a lot of the maniacs will already have busted out anyways and it gives u a slight edge when u know u probably wont get looked up too often by the more tight players as they wont want to risk 20BB of their stack unless they have a monster or a top 5% range hand

joe777 said:

Not worth it,unless it was a deep stack tourney.

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It was, but even so I don't see how that would make much of a difference. 4 big blinds is still 4 big blinds,

But eh, judging from the responses this seems like I just got lucky that time around. I'll probably try it again a few more times and see how it works out though since it was actually profitable.

Well, there will be too many variance. How do you want to beat the rake in such situation.
You should be extra-extra sure how to play short-stacked.

Also, why to play micros? Because there are bad players and you have an edge against them. But how to use the edge with 4-10 BBs. With such short stack, its could be even worse to play against bad players.