Players are allowed to late register tournaments for 3 hours. I cant tell you how many times I've quadrupled up and busted out before late reg was even over. There should be no late reg for satellite tournaments and 15 minutes late reg for regular tournaments.

Anyone else agree?

Yes complete horsedoodoo should be an hour...done.

Do not agree at all. Longer registration means more players registering and thus, bigger prize pools.

They're obviously not going to cut down late registration time, because otherwise there could be overlays and they want more people to register = more rake.

Good luck showing that shorter late registration = more profit for them. If they could have it entirely their way, they'd have late registration right until the end of the tournament. Of course, that'd be totally unfair that someone could win a huge prize without playing any poker, so they have to find a middle ground.

good luck finding a single argument against late-registration; don't liking it seems just unreasonable to me, its one of theses things that is really good for everyone...and its not too long, it cud be considered to long if u cud late-reg into the money or very shortly before so u cud probably fold your way into the money, but thats virtually never the case.
also, i wud suspect, that the tourneys with very long late-reg have a shorter late-reg period relative to something like a hyper turbo.

you pay early to build your stack earlier. They come in with a disadvantage as their stack is worth less. This should be much better if you registered early and the prize pool increases.

I can see where OP is coming from. It is a weird feeling when you play for almost 3 hours, have your stack go up and down, sometimes quadrupled as he says, then go bust, and then see that people can still register for first time. I think Late Reg should be dictated by a mathematical formula that should be determined by the number of BB's a fresh new stack would give you. Maybe late reg should be cutoff when a new stack would be under 20bb's, or something like that.

never liked it either but I didnt have to play it so meh, what can you do. In the end it doesnt matter. Someone reging later doesnt have an advantage. All it does is pretty much guarentee large player fields which is a good thing.

No it's not, should be longer if anything.

If you change it to 1 hour people that play will still....the 3hrs is just for laziness.

maybe this thread would be alright if the only reason you state for wanting shorter late reg wasn't entirely about you and your personal tournament experience...maybe

sorry you can't make the money cause late reg is so long

Is no one going to mention late reg for most tourneys is 1 hour?

3 hours late reg is for a few of the deeper stack tourneys in most cases.

Too long bump

Agree. 2 hours is long enough. I prefer 1 hour.

Just my 2c.

THis has been the norm for the US players for years, i agree way too long, it almost feels liek a second bubble, Can I make it past the late reg bubble and all the people on their 5 their 5th bullet shoving anything and usually getting paid off

Sure if you wanna cut late reg down by 2hrs be prepared to also cut guarantee down to at least half of what it is if not more. Why not just late reg yourself instead of starting at the beginning.

Yes, but to change will cost PS $ so nothing will happen. I can see the argument for live deep stacked tourneys where they get few hands per hour but for online tourneys there is no need for late reg to be so long.

it's somehow funny, that the 'make it shorter' supporters don't bring up a single argument and claim PS is the only one profiting.

sure they make more rake, but every late entry means additional money in the prize pool. and each late entry stack (if we're talking about the 'too late' entries) have less value. if a rec late regs is like adding free money, and even good players loose edge, if they start with a short stack.

another thing is, that online events are played from players world wide and this means that the players are from different time zones. if you shorten the late reg for events like the sunday million, this could have a huge impact on some markets.

and for everyone how hates super late reg, there smaller events and sngs ... just my 2cts

I work full time and some days I do not have the time to play 8 hours in a tournament.

There are days a have a few hours and will look at the tournaments that are deep and register late. This turns into a gamble but if I get a good hand early I can triple my stack and have a playable stack. Yeah this is gambling but if I do it once a week surely there are many more which could add a K or more to a tournament. With a large percentage busting pretty soon. So it's has it's advantages for recreational players or players who are short in time, and adds value to the torn for the grinders. Obviously this all adds to the rake pool.

basically this, an hour seems fine for normal tournaments, for deep stack snoozefests buying in at any time in the first two and a half hours seems like a huge leak

I think it's fine as it is.

The later you reg, the lesser value your stack will have while you still pay the same as others. I don't really care if people late reg and some still make the money, it just adds value to the prizepool imo.

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People should be able to late-reg for tournaments that finished in 2013 if they really want to burn money.

There probably is something to be said about what extremely late reg can do to the average stack size and playabilty of your stack.

For an extreme example if players can reg for 10bbs this can really mess up the dynamic of a tourney because all the players who have gotten there stacks to 40 bbs (which would have been an average or good stack with an hour of late reg) now have to deal with an additional amount of short stacks at there table. Which will basically cause them to have to play like they are a short stack. This in turn can have a big effect on the structure of a tourney or how the tourney plays.

because people never end up with a short stack through natural means in a tournament ever. take your cash game inspired short stack whining to the cash game forums