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Originally Posted by Lord_Crispen
I'm posting this so I can learn myself, but the dude wasn't actually arguing that they should blind people out that register at the time. He was asking why he is "punished" for registering early when he could just as easily just show up later.
What am I missing? This practice does seem kinda bleh to me and I think there should be a better solution in place outside of "just sit down and play". I would think that registering early would be just as favorable to the casino as it would to the player. Casino gets butts in chairs early in guarantee tournaments and allows them to be less busy when the tournament starts, and the player gets to ensure that they are not unable to play due to situations with alternates or not enough dealers/tables etc.
Help me understand why it's 'sooooo absurd' and that this guy has zero legitimate gripes about why they put a stack out and start blinding him off while someone else can walk in the door and start with a full stack. (can't they just wait to put his stack out when he is ready to actually start or at the end of registration? They can track early registration and put his stack out at the end of the registration period. His money is in there and there is zero risk to the tournament operators if he never actually shows up to play.)
I have had the same thoughts, and have discussed them a bit with the dealers and floors at the local casino. Looking at it from the palyers perspective, it does seem oddly and unfairly punitive to the guys who early reg, especially since people who early reg help the game. But if you look at it from the standpoint of running the tournament, everyone who registers gets assigned a seat. Is it fair to the table to have people lock up seats but then not sit until many levels in, forcing a table to play short handed? It makes sense, from the perspective of the game, that an assigned seat be a live stack.
But I agree, I did not think this was absurd thinking and was going to respond to the original post, but i had to think about it a little more to make sure I wasn't missing something.