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IMO, because that maximizes the profit for the poker room. Gives more people time to buy into the game.
 
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True . It’s mostly for profit reasons, but from a player’s side it also changes the dynamics a lot.
I usually prefer joining around the middle of the late registration period not too early, not at the very end so the stacks are still playable, but the field is already a bit filtered.
 
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The bigger the amount of bonus money added to the pot the longer the late registration period. It works. The house never loses.
 
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It’s definitely to get more players in the game, which I’m ok with because it ups the prize pool.
 
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IMO, because that maximizes the profit for the poker room. Gives more people time to buy into the game.
This. I'm playing a tourney now that had 5.5h (!) of late reg lmao. Stretched out the pay zone too much.
 
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I don't like America Card Room tournaments just because of the very long late registration. When you start a tournament, by the end of late registration, after 5 hours, you just get tired of playing, and this is in a $1 tournament.
 
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Definitely to beat the guaranteed prize pool of the tournaments.
 
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This is so that revenue will be higher.
 
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Why are the late registrations so long??
on the ACR and Redstar always same thing - long registration on some tourneys is 4-5hours :) it is so boring... you have 200-300BBs stack and people just going crazy during late reg... i think answer for your question is to make Bigger prize pool
 
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Because it's good for the creator of the tournament, think about what you did to get more out of the tournament
 
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If people want to rebuy with 7.5BB and boost the prize pool, that's great when your ahead. Gonna create a big of a variance bump on most tables, give and take.

I wish 1-2 max rebuy tournies were still more popular, hell, even freezeouts have more meaning to each hand, in my humble opinion. Not that I don't fire away when I'm confident I can put together a stack, is what it is.
 
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