Late Registration

How do you take on an extended late registration period?
Should you wait until later on or start from the very beginning?

What are your thoughts about it and how you tend to best take it on?

Well I will register late if it isnt to late,say like three levels or so,and depending on the start chip ammount and blind levels.
I have noticed on black chip poker that most if not asll of there tournaments offer a reentry and late reg for the first 12 levels.
Thats like three hours :Q.
I dont see myself playing to many tournaments there in the future.

I usually start from the beginning. I like playing when blinds are small cos I can play with weak starting hands cheap.

i think that it is better to register at the start of the tournaments, when the blinds are smaller and poor players are present.
personally i dont like to long late reg period, maximally half of hour.
but, there are few regular tournaments (starting every day) where i strategically come late and sometimes to late when blinds became high

Personally I don't make use if late reg. Some do it because they want to wait until all the suicide players are out.

But I want to play, play tight, and wait for good cards, and try to make use of opportunities and build up a stack.

If you want until the last moment of reg, most of the time you will have 15bb-20bb left against bigger stack, so what's the use of that? you will need to gamble soon.

Hope this helps. GL.

I personally say no to late registration unless you want to play like a donk
I see allot do it like on the end off 1 or 2 hours like last night on the Ann 3yr 1 m gtd from pokerstars. It was a deep stack 5000 chips blinds each 10 minutes by after 2 hours sign ups closed

And than you enter like half the competition already got eliminated and you get placed on a table with some average stacks go all inn Anny ace and voila you got yourself solved for competing for the money

The longer you wait the more you make yourself depend on a lottery
While starting from start makes you play allot more hands , means more time to read your competitioners .

I never waited just to enter the tounament as late registration. Of course if i am genuinely late for a tournament then thats the only way. I like to start early but some people prefer late registration because they think it suits them. So they can enter when the blinds are a little bit higher and they can be a bit more aggressive in choosing spots. Also some think they would have avoided getting in a cooler hand early on and being a short stack.

I think there are advantages either way. If you register later, you can avoid some of the loose play that goes on early, especially in large fields. There always seems to be one knucklehead at every table who is convinced he can win the tournament in the first 20 minutes and goes all-in every 3 hands. But you are also at a disadvantage in that your starting stack is now going to be significantly lower than the chip average. Registering early, however, gives you the opportunity to clean up on some of the loose play, so it works both ways. If it is a turbo tourney, you really need to get in early. A slower paced tourney with a big starting stack is okay to join later.

If i join late i have bad feeling, freshly starting from the start seems to improve my mood, and yeah this has nothing to do with anything, but still feeling better if i just make it in time, never seen joining late as structured professional play

Also if you play directly, you can play possible monsterhands for a small price, thus building your stack. So try to limp in with suited connectors or small pairs for example and try to hit a set/flush/straight

It depends for me.

If it is a smaller tournament and I am not necessarily concerned with the buy in, sometimes I like to late reg to eliminate all the fuss in the early stages.

Come in with 10-15 bb. One double up you are at average or a little above, and 80% of the field is already eliminated. Makes it easier to cash sometimes.

I only recommend this if you are confident with your short stack play and its a little higher on the variance side (until you double, then you play normal poker).

Makes it exciting too ha.

DarkRoster33 said:

If i join late i have bad feeling, freshly starting from the start seems to improve my mood, and yeah this has nothing to do with anything, but still feeling better if i just make it in time, never seen joining late as structured professional play

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One thing I have noticed about people who join tourneys really late (Bovada has lots of tourneys with two- or three-hour late registration) is that they tend to panic and go all-in the first time they get an ace, low pocket pair or two suited connectors. If you are not confident in your ability to play with a small stack, do not enter a tourney late unless you have at least 20 BBs.

tazer said:

How do you take on an extended late registration period?
Should you wait until later on or start from the very beginning?

What are your thoughts about it and how you tend to best take it on?

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I have asked myself the exact same question.

I believe its personally depending style.

Dont late registrate or make rebuy into less then 16-20 BB.

If you are a limping master be there from the beginning.

All in or nothing you can wait very long before late reg.

Just remember the longer you wait the less scary your stack seems.

If the prize is tickets you can reg later.

But still its personally