I would love to play in tournaments on Global but always miss them because I can't register late.

What happens is I will see a tournament I like and will a SnG to kill time, only to not be able to register on the tournament because the SnG will last longer than expected and I miss the start time. I only have cellphone access so multi-tabling is not much of an option for me(I can play 2 but they are not on the same screen, after that it becomes not worth it for me). I also cannot register for anything else while playing or I will time out and miss hands(and often info on my opponents).

This is a bad business model in my opinion. More entrirs means more rake collected for Global and more money in the prize pool. It is a win for everyone to have late registration.

Hopefully our resident Global rep can bring this to their attention.

This was discussed more than once in these forums. Unfortunately for your opinion, it has proven over time to be a good business model. People love that they can complete a tournament in less time than some other US facing sites take for their entire late reg. LOL

Personally I don't mind the no late reg on their regular tourney schedule. I wouldn't be opposed to a limited LR not to exceed 1 hour. If I want to play tournaments that run for 15 hours with a third of that being in late reg, there's a site for that. And I play there, but rarely for tournaments. Usually for games like Omaha/8 or Stud cash games, which of course aren't available on Global so meh.

At any rate, you can take solace in the fact that the MTT series they run, and select events on the regular schedule, have some late reg.

Some ideas to help you work with this while playing on your phone:

-Pick SNGS that are turbos, HU games, or jackpots... i.e. fast games for your X minutes of time killing.

-Play a cash game for X min.

-Register the tourney before it starts like you should be anyway... if you simply can't manage 2 tables on your phone, and simply can't chose a time killing format that won't overlap, then when the tourney table opens, just ignore it. Finish your SNG, then play the tourney. You may miss a blind or two, but that's insignificant on level 1.

As for registering causing you to miss a hand on your current table... well come on. You can miss a couple hands (and are rarely missing any tangible info on opponents for those 1-5 hands). I'm sure you're exaggerating when you say you "always miss them" because while you're logged in and playing you can't manage to register before the start. But the model is not likely to change since it works (they blow the gtds out of the water every tourney series, and generally the regular schedule always beats the gtds as well).

Good Luck in the upcoming Eagle series, 1 hour late reg FTW!

Very well.

You do have a point, I still have a Carbon account and their late registration is ridiculous and they still can't make their guarantees. I did not realize Global pretty much makes every guarantee though.

Late registration at least for the 1st level or two would be nice though.

2 games on my phone isn't a problem. I just don't like not being able to see the action at the other table. I never have been a big multi table player. 4 was the perfect amount when I had a computer and played 20+ hours a week before black Friday.

10min of late reg would be courteous.

I don't disagree. The question then becomes, where do you draw the line?

They give 10 min late reg, then people who get there 12 minutes after it starts will complain. Then they make it 2 whole levels, and someone arriving in level 3 complains.

Where ever they draw the line, someone won't be happy. So for the majority of their regular schedule they've left the line at the actual mtt start.

Don't get me wrong, if they announced tomorrow hey, we're going to have 30 min late reg on all MTT's that currently have none, I'd be fine with that. I've missed tourney starts by 1 or 2 min multiple times. I just don't envision a change as the way they do it now is simple, easy for everyone to understand, and for all intents and purposes, seems to be working.

They do. Perhaps they could raise gtds with some late reg, idk. To be fair I don't look at their MTT's on a nightly basis, but when I am they always meet the gtds. I have a friend who's like a master private eye for MTT overlays and he's never pinging me about global. The last time he did, tourney starting in 15 min looks like it's going to overlay hard... it made the gtd (barely, but it got there). lol

Massive overlay on the $.11 $500 Bonanza, but other than that overlays seem very rare on GP.

Would be nice to see 5 - 15m of late reg on daily tournament schedule. More rake and bigger prize pool - everyone wins.

The Bonanza's (daily and weekly) and the Hundo/Five Hundo are promotional games with built in overlay by design.

Late registration has contributed to making poker less fun. Its ridiculous the length of late registration some sites have on tournaments.

Global Poker has got it right with excluding / keeping them to a min.

Totally agree with this. One of the reasons I moved from Ignition to GP was GPs tourneys didn't take FOREVER to finish.

I certainly don't understand why people can't make a regular registration time. Set a timer for yourself to join if you need to (I have several set for tourneys that I want to join). I have missed several tourneys by a few minutes (before I set my timers) but that's my fault.