Has late registration gone too far?

[CaptainXL]

I believe if you are good and build your pile of chips you have an advantage over the late registerer, who is building the prize fund for you.

 

[lolshovaments]

Couple of years ago I was playing a FLHE tournament and when the last player registred in the game it was almost the final table! Small field. Poker rooms simply don't care about it. They want bigger fields no matter what.

Recently, Patrik Leonard was pissed off about this crazy policy too.

 

[terry5758]

the smaller daily torments I play in at live casino horseshoe southern IN are 15,20&30 min lvls late reg to 7th lvls unlimited reentry MSPT and wsop events at least some I looked at have late reg until the beginning of lvl 13 with 30 min and longer I know that's not the same as on line but still a lot of time

 

[Therminator]

An incredibly long late registration can be a bit annoying. Though what poker rooms do is up to them unfortunately.

 

[Oxinthewater]

Absolutely, when you are playing in a tournament you want to see your progress and players being eliminated as quickly as possible. 15 minutes is sufficient.

 

[amatola]

I belong to one site small site that does not have late reg. They have around 45 min of rebuy. Oddly enough, they always seem to get their gtd (usually around 100x buyin).

 

[saha2000]

In turbo and hyperturbo tournaments, late registration is
definitely shorter, while in these deep it is more and more
often after 3 hours or even longer. For aggressive players
it is a good tactic to enter late registration later.
For me 3+ hours later registration is a bit too long.

 

[nghoffman]

I personally like late registration, especially if I had started the tourney from the beginning.. It's easy to just pick off new entries with their small stacks who mostly just go all-in immediately because they've only got 10BB or so...

 

[run187]

Allowing it TWO hours into a tourney is an utter joke..

 

[Luvepoker]

Short answer is yes. When late registration goes on past a dinner break. Worse still is when you hear of players re entering 4 or more times sit down and the table and start shoving so them can double up. Just ruins the game.

 

[xmuggpokerx]

yes it should be limited to an hour or two

 

[SPANKYSN]

Maybe, the online tourneys are trying to be like the WSOP or some WPT tourneys, where you can have late registration up to the start of Day 2. Besides, it's all about getting more entries = more dollars for the website.

 

[molokheia]

A lot of late registrations are now going on for 3 hours. How long do you think these should be. Years ago you either did not have them or they were limited to an hour.


Now you have no idea how many players will be in a tournament except a rough guess by the guaranteed amount. It can also create a funny situation where sometimes players have not has to play and last the first few hours of a tournament, late reg just before it closes and while entering extremely short stacked can enter at a point when sometimes more than 50% of the remaining field are paid.


Should registrations be shorter?

Hi There
Definitely yes
It shoud be shorter Very Shorter
Besides that I think that structure of online games should never be larger than 5 min in blinds increase
Rgds

 

[Prophet]

Because the guarantees are so high now , and the platforms are trying to maximise profits.. It takes a lot from the quality of the game...

I miss the 30 min late reg ... which I think is proper

 

[sn0112]

I can understand the dilemma the sites face in estimating the guarantees. They probably extend late reg and allow rebuys in order to make the tournaments commercially viable.

However, from a player perspective it is extremely laborious and disheartening to register at the start of a tournament and see the numbers swell for hours on end. The alternative is to late reg but then you have a lower chance of making the final table.

 

[paisley]

Is this a situation where the house is making that call or are there players that are asking for it?

Re entry bugs me too. My opinion is you shouldn't have to beat the same player twice. Once you bust somebody, you've beaten them for this event. Seeing them again feels like fighting a ghost back from the dead.

I hate these late registrations that go on for hours now. Late registration shouldn't last more than an hour. You're either in or your out in my book. I want to play a competition not a marathon. I am talking about tournaments you pay good money to play that do this crap. The freerolls and micro-entry can do what they want.
What you are referring to are re-buys. Not the same as late registration, although most tourneys now give you an endless amount of those too.
I just want to start a tourney in the early evening and go to bed by midnight, damnit!

 

[Copag]

I'm glad you talked about it, my good friend, great observation. I always thought that, in my opinion, there should be no late registration, but, as some people like, it should be a maximum of 1 hour, but what they are doing now is exaggerated.

 

[windsonkam]

My personally feeling 3 hours LR is too long, one tournament took about 5 hours to finish.
1 hour LR should be enough for tournament, more than 1 hour LR, I feel boring for the game.
For freeroll, LR should be shorten, personal thinking should be less than 30minutes, to avoid crowed and player simply all in almost all the time, the fun of playing poker greatly reduce.

 

[Fenix7]

In my opinion, these types of tournaments are complicated. I have played some satellites with late registrations, but I play them from the beginning. Entering late you are short on chips and you have to expand the range of hands. I don't like them very much, but it's a matter of taste.

 

[Dale Kirk]

I think some tournaments need longer levels of registration, but low or micro tourneys shouldn't go over 3 to 5 levels

 

[Claudiunm]

The fact that other players come in late doesn't worry me much. The problem is that some rooms have left loopholes that allow late registration to become a game strategy. Then a delay of 3 hours is excessive. It is not fair to those who start at the beginning and spend hours building their stack. I heard that in a certain room, players who entered late were all placed at the same table. Then, groups entered late and ended up at the same table, they kept rolling around with insignificant bets to burn time while other players were leaving at the other tables. With that, they entered the bubble and had a guaranteed win. After that they went to each one for themselves, but already with some gain.
For me this is the problem of late registration.

 

[mclaughlinph]

Yeah i think the tourneys with the long late registration is a problem especially when you are playing online and you have a higher and quicker rate of game play you see more hands and the more hands you play the higher percentage chance of being knocked out. Also the prize pool becomes saturated and you can play in a big tourney with a long late registration for hours finally make the money and only get a pittance for your efforts. Smaller fields bigger payouts and not playing for as long in one tourney without long late registration. Also people can come late get a quick double up or two and then coast to the money in some cases. The tourneys shouldn't have more than an hour of late registration.

 

[MoneyMaker4i]

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Sometimes in some tournaments it is taking too long, in the micros it could be a little less

 

[mclaughlinph]

I believe if you are good and build your pile of chips you have an advantage over the late registerer, who is building the prize fund for you.

It doesn't matter how good you are the longer you have to play at online speed of play the more hands you are gonna see and the more hands you are gonna see the higher the chances of you running into a cooler are and that is all it takes to knock you out of a tourney. And the further into the tourney you are the bigger the blinds and the costlier the mistakes. It doesn't matter who you are or how good you are.

I agree it is nice to have some small stacks on your table you can knock out and chip up with but most sites dont allow to many imbalances at the tables if you are a big stack you usually have a few big stacks and a couple smaller stacks at your table at most. Particularly the later into the tourney you go they keep equal stacks at the tables so no one gets run over.

 

[pokeher2k9]

I did late register to tournament once, started with 10bb! Never again