Late register on purpose?

Would you late register a deepstack tourney on purpose?

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 53.8%
  • No

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • You idiot, play the whole tourney or don't play

    Votes: 3 23.1%

  • Total voters
    13
  • Poll closed .
Lheticus

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I'm not sure if it's the first time I've brought this up, but lately I've been thinking about trying registering late in certain tournaments on purpose. Namely, the ones that start with deep stacks and usually have at least THREE HOURS for their period. My playstyle is one where I try to minimize unnecessary risks, and when the blinds are so small that people start with 200 or more of them, I'm pretty reluctant to even play with premium hands, because you tend to get a good few people who build pots to proportionately outrageous levels at any given table or even preflop shove and rebuy, forcing people to take ridiculous risks or else just about sit out entirely.

I, being in the "sit out entirely" camp, would think that just waiting an hour into the period to register would have an equivalent effect. In fact a BETTER effect because I'm not bleeding out at all. So what do you guys think?
 
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Late is better than sitting out paying blinds.
 
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We are on the same page, i believe that's the best way to play deep stack tournaments, for same reason you already brought up, avoid unnecessary risk plus early stage in those tourneys could be really a time wasters. It's unlikely that someone will just shove on the flop with a top pair while you are holding trips, in early stage that just not gonna happen.
 
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Lare registration has many advantages. First of all you are fresh with lot of energy for the rest of the tournament while others playing for one or two hours are more tired and they might do some mistakes... And of course the fact that after one or 2 hours many players have been knoked-out and you are still in the game is something possitive.

But registering too late is a risk because if blinds are 400-800 fro example and you start with 5.000 you will need some very good hands in the first minutes!!! So in my opinion it is better to register late but not too late... :)
 
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I feel you, i feel like after registration closes everyone starts to play more like poker instead of gambling. This only works if its really deep stack tourney
 
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I think it depends on your play style. Some people are really good playing deepstack.
 
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if u mean y late like 30minutes then yes i hate the first 30 min of the tournament except for bounty tournaments action starts early
 
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I think late registration is good at slower tournament, but on faster like hyper turbo is not, blinds is a big for a short time.
 
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I always register in the last minute to the League tournaments. I am in Elementary level, and if I register after 9 minutes of play usually there are 2000 fish busted out already... And exactly, if I have to choose between bleeding out because I don't want to shove all in with anything and just waiting till most of fish are gone I choose the latter.
 
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You should be very lucky, because you only have one chance, and you do not see the perfect cards, and the blinds reduce your stack
 
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I like registering late in tournaments with really long late registration periods, like 5+ hours or something like that. Even coming from a cash game background, I like playing around 50-75 bigs in a tournament when I start to kind of reduce the amount of times I get coolered and just lose a monster stack early on in a tournament.

However, I feel like there is something to be said about better players having an edge against weaker players early on in a tournament and playing deeper stacked allows us to realize this edge much more often as compared to if we were only 25-50 blinds deep. Weaker players will make much bigger mistakes when playing deeper stacked (overvalue top pair, not folding the bad end of straights or weak flushes when it should be obvious they're beat, etc). This gives us, the better players, an opportunity to capitalize on their mistakes and build a monster stack early on in the tournament so we can punish other players near the money bubble or something like that. Playing a tournament for that long though requires some serious endurance and consistent solid play on our part, and that should only be if we're sure our edge is big over a good chunk of the field. For larger buy-in tournaments with more regs however, I think I'd stick to the late registration and have less playing time to get coolered deeper stacked.
 
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I always late register for all of my online tourneys but for Live tourneys, I like to grind the entire time in order to build a huge stack.
 
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I don't like tourneys with late reg. It last longer than regular tourney and I don't like losing time on one tourney because I play a lot of them and I want to have time for other things. Some people like late reg tourneys and they are very good at it.
 
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I play mostly on pokerstars and lately I register after the first hour[two hours in total of late registration] and I have around 25bbs. Still have plenty of space to play postflop and it is more likely to be ITM or make a deep run. So it is a situational yes for me.
 
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Sometimes I play tournaments with late registration, when I do not have much free time. At the same time I try to enter the tournament at the late stage of registration and try to maximize my stack. If I'm lucky, then I keep playing more carefully, if not, then for now. Do not mind the time you spent.
 
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I've seen many pros late reg into tournaments.
I also does that sometimes because the starting blinds aren't worthwhile.
Another reason is I get a bit bored/ uninterested in the game after a long hour or two.
So it's better for me to enter within 3,4 levels in the tournament.

I won't reg very late because it kind of forces your hand to be played due to having a short stack.
 
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I think for late registraition tournament you must have lot of pacience I like o cash the fish and try to build a big stack early so i can wait later for good hand without worry about the blinds eather way if you expect to get the final table or be ITM at least have to play like 3 to 4 H and final table like 6 to 8 so at the end I don't see any advantage on late reg...
 
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Plain and simple I think a good tournament player loses far too much value by not being in it from start to finish.
 
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I also like late registration,but have noticed that half period reg. is better than too late.
 
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Late reg is really usefull in tournaments that have 2-3k people registered because near the end of late registration you will see that 50-60% of remaining players will get payed. Worth to register than and try to pick up a fast 2x and get into money
 
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Hello.

This weekend im going to play a live torunament and one of my friends is coming with me. He wanted to late register for no apparent reason but I convinced him to play from the start.
I think it is better, you can play more hands and thus play more better hands. You can be more tight if you play longer. And in addition when you late reg, you have a significant chip disadvantage against aggresive players and then they can try to bully you which is not that good.

Good luck, wish me luck this weekend
 
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For me it depends on the tournament blind system but in general if I reg. late in the tournament it is to get closer to the bubble and to enter in the money and not to win it.
 
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Hello.

This weekend im going to play a live torunament and one of my friends is coming with me. He wanted to late register for no apparent reason but I convinced him to play from the start.
I think it is better, you can play more hands and thus play more better hands. You can be more tight if you play longer. And in addition when you late reg, you have a significant chip disadvantage against aggresive players and then they can try to bully you which is not that good.

Good luck, wish me luck this weekend

Well yeah, in live tournaments I wouldn't late reg myself. Live tournaments in my experience wouldn't have a period that encompasses a meaningful number of blind levels--and an even MORE important distinction is that they never allow RE entry unless it's explicitly stated that it's a rebuy tournament--which I wouldn't enter in the first place. This is about online tournaments you see in micro stakes, possibly even higher levels where late reg for a tournament that takes one day having a late registration period of FOUR HOURS or more, where people can effectively even rebuy if they're knocked out. It encourages way too much recklessness and it just seems like it'd be way easy to waste time and effort playing the first hour or maybe even the first TWO hours of such an event.
 
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I prefer seeing as many cards as possible, and someone is going to double up from the weak players why not you.
 
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Watching youtube videos about the topic, I got the message that you're better off playing from the beginning. The reason in general is that better players have a higher chance of getting further in the tournament than worse ones. On average your competition will be harder later on, so you should take advantage of getting in early.

That being said, when the tournament is long and exhausting, you might get fatigued as well. That's where late reg is becoming interesting. You'll stay fresh for longer, thus guaranteeing your optimal play for longer.

So all in all: weigh the advantage of getting an early chip lead against worse players versus staying fresh and on top of your game longer.
 
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