Facecard99

Haven't posted for a long time because haven't played for awhile now
but anyway to the topic

I've been recently playing really low poker (penny poker)
been playing a mixture of ring games and tourny games...

Now i'm realize that in tourny play the late registration is really out of hand ... specially in the low limit buy in because it would go on for like 30mins~hour for ppl to join

i understand for a business stand point it's good because it will bring in players to pay the fee but for the players that join from the very start isn't fair because it would be going against new players that didn't play before... specially if the early players lost a big hand

guess i would like your comment on this for late registration now are there tourny that doesn't have late registration seem to me all low buy-in ones does

philliivey

I am not sure, but I HATE it, it is -ev if you don't double up or accumulate chips to get a bigger stack then when the late reg's come in, which is the majority of the time.

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Facecard99

so its good to wait till like 1min left till late reg is over to join the tourny??
does that even increase the chances of winning ? or getting in the money

philliivey

oh no it's bad, I mean for people who started from level 1 and has not gotten a bigger stack when late reg comes to a end.

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Richard~

Don't see how this is unfair in any way. To cash in a tournament you typically have to accumulate 8-12x your starting stack if you still want to be in the run for the real money. This task is not made easier just cause your big pots come at the end of the hour, you're going to win or lose them just as anyone else

People starting from the first levels are gonna get more hands and more chances to utilize their edge. if you suck you're probably better off regestering late cause you get less hands for someone else to use their edge on you in

darbday

but if you take a basic strategy like playing tight you get alot more cheap rounds to find cards in. and by the later rounds the really crappy players are more likely to already have given there chips away. i know nothing about this aspect of the tourney though, and i don't know what 30 mins equals in online hands.

kingkao86

Late reg. is not unfair at all.

trigs

i dislike late registration as well. rebuy tournies i don`t mind, but regular tournies i find it quite annoying. like you said, if i lose a hand in the first hour and suddenly someone signs up late i have a smaller stack then them - not cool.

also (like i posted here before i believe), i hate it when i sign up for a tournament and there`s 200 people in it so i decide i`ll have time to play it all. then i check back about 10 minutes into the tournament and there`s 700+ people in it. i sometimes like to have some sort of ballpark idea of how many people will be in a tournament before i sign up simply due to time management.

T8urmoney

Play the 180 s'n'go's or the cap tourney's if field size is an issue.

I'm quite the opposite oppinion....those who register late have a disadvantage, I started off @ 50-100 BB's, if you wait until the last second, you can have as little as 10-30 BB's. That's a big advantage.

Also, the bigger the prize pool, the more I get for winning

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Richard~

Someone please explain the injustice in this in words that I can understand ^^'

trigs

injustice...not quite.

fair that someone didn`t get blinded down and can join with a full starting stack even though i got rivered early and have less than him or her...no, not fair imho. although, not really the biggest deal either, but i still don`t see how it`s fair in any way.

Richard~

it's fair cause you got sucked out on, he's gonna get his chance to get sucked out on too. He didn't get blinded down but he didn't get any hands or oppertunities to chip up either.

I really really really don't see the reasoning behind this

trigs

...perhaps we are misunderstanding what we are each meaning by the word fair. again, i don`t think it`s a big deal, but it is obviously not fair - it`s impossible for it to be fair in fact. perhaps you`d understand my point if i said it`s not equal. maybe that would make more sense to you.

Richard~

Nope, still no bells ringing ^^' . It's still 100% equal in my mind

Quimby

If everyone has the same option of deciding when to join it is "fair".

Winning or losing chips does not matter in fairness.