Are you a late-registration sniper?

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I do sometimes late register but usually play from the beginning.
In case of 3 hours registration I find it unpleasant as quite often the tournament is settled within 1,5 hours and could be finished in 2 hours or so. Instead, people are waiting on idle till the registration ends. Given the fact that it is often connected with rebuy option you are not even certain what is your present position,
which makes first two hours of game useless.
Late registration effectively changes tournaments to the poor man's version of sit'n'go - sit 'n wait.
 
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No, I definitely prefer choosing my games beforehand. I look for stats and merely play a tournament when I am sure to have a good chance to be itm.

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I never enter at the last level of late registration. Why? Because the blinds are high and you will need to get extremely lucky and good cards to double/triple up to a comfortable spot.

IMO, those that do this are playing purely by luck and my guess is they waste their $ more times than not.

My general rule of thumb, I won't enter late if the inflections point(total of your stack divided by all blinds/antes) is less than 10, and even that is pretty low and in the danger territory.
 
Aristodemus_ said:
I never late reg myself but I hadn't realised that you can be in the cash almost straight away. The reason I don't do it is because you are straight into shove mode and therefore need good hands and luck right away just to survive.
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I completely agree. I don't want to play and hope to get lucky. I want the time to make smart moves.
 
On another note, I like freezeouts. Late registration/rebuy chaps my ass.

IMO, once you get taken out, you should be done.
 
terryk said:
Love the players who late-reg into the KO tourneys,,,they come in with guns a blazin,,, :rofl: I play to win a tournament,not just to cash,,,,so these guys are a great help along the way to doing that. 😉 (and calling it a cool name like "late-reg snipers" doesn't make it a good idea,,,but nice try,,,i call them "stepping stones" to the final table) 😎
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I like to think of them as "late-reg chip donators"
 
I think it's best to enter at the start so you can build a nice chip stack and hopefully coast to the money and final table. Unless you see an obvious angle like a very small field playing and late registration nearing an end, I would advise against it.
 
I will late reg on week-end usually, so it let the bingo players play and leave the table! Horwever, I don't join if the average stack is 50%+ of the starting stack. For now, over that, I don't have enough luck to get my :7d4::2c4: and hit big!

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When you register at late registration I think it depends more at luck. Yes, it's more comfortable not to playfirst 2-3 hours of tournament and double your chips fast. At beginning you can increase your starting chips if you have good post flop game.
 
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rarely, after late registration, it turns out to double your chips and provide a comfortable stack
it really needs initially good luck and a good hand
 
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Late reg'd into a $2 $300 GTD with 3 BBs, right before it closed. Took 2nd.

EZPZ
 
I understand why ACR does the 3 hr late reg, but i do not like it.

I do see a lot of folks jumping in just before the bubble. These players usually can only play one hand and they either make the money or they bust out. There is not a lot of poker here. If you like poker, why would you enjoy a single hand game? you might as well go play roulette in the Casino, you have better odds. This definitely resembles gambling and bingo, more than poker.

If you think you are a decent poker player then you want strategy and your knowledge of players and your knowledge of odds to drive your behavior, not desperation.

This isn't to slam those that like to jump in like this, i get it. I get not sitting around for 3 hrs to be in the same position. I get making a quick $0.50 by min cashing. It just isn't aligned well with actually playing poker.
 
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Late reg'd into a $2 $300 GTD with 3 BBs, right before it closed. Took 2nd.

EZPZ
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Back-to-back FTs. $1 $250 GTD.

Late reg'd into another with 12 BBs. Busted 1st bullet when i jammed 102s in BB v 2 limpers.

2nd bullet i rode to 5th/315 for ~$18 cash.
 
Like to late register via spin to get in on acr

I like to late register but I like to do it by only paying a portion of the buyin. Ill try like 50 cents via .01 cents on the spin to get in then another 1 or 2 dollars on .25 but i never do the 1 dollar buy in. For some reason i tend to get lucky and get in more often then not but if i do get in for a couple bucks and its a 40 dollar buy in then if i money it usually works out for a good profit. Ive even been lucky enough to spend .19 cents one time and get into a 250 dollar tourney, but i didnt cash in that one. 🙁
 
I think it's a good idea to get into a late entry when the tournament offers a good addon (much chips), so we start with a fair number of blinds.
I already got some ITMs like that.
 
My opinion

I like late registration sniping. Heres the reason in the long haul the percentages your hole cards are going to win again are low. (because they were just hot) Your stuck if you start from the beginning because of probabilities are now against you.
 
I've done it before, I don't recommend for most tournaments unless they have an add-on when reg is finished for the buy in, because then ur usually in the 20 BB range.
 
I recently moved from cash to tournaments and the first few tourneys I played I late registration sniped to a fair result. I think you have a varying chance to cash depending on the individual tournament but I don't know how high you would be able to place barring some insanely hot streak of cards. The last few I've played I tried to buy in when the starting stack was 50bb and has some more success. I think getting to play more hands for a chance to have a larger stack and put pressure on the high volume of players who buy in at the later stages of late reg could be a good way to meet somewhat in the middle. You still have more time to play deeper stacked poker and pick up a few pots before its all in or fold and then people are going to voluntarily buy in for a smaller stack than yours which knowing ever hand could put their stack on the line provides considerable pressure on your opponents.

My sample size is no where near adequate to say for sure I've only played about 40 tourneys/sngs tho so I have much to learn and I'm excited to join your community!
 
Depends on the late reg time. If it is 2-3hours, then I love to go in just before closing and just wait for a hand. It's a gamble but it saves me a lot of time I don't have after I got kids. Usually I double up quite quick although it is a struggle in red zone for a while.
 
Sometimes I like to play at the end of late registration,the prizes are close, but it is not always possible to get into them, and it is very difficult in this situation to sit at the final table.
 
I often late reg but usually won't do it if my stack will be less than 15-20 bb At very short stack depths your are just looking for shove spots. These may not come along if you don't have enough chips so play several orbits. At that point you are not playing poker you are just gambling.
 
I like to go to the tournament at the beginning, when I go in then I normally enter with less chips and I take pressure and I end up losing myself in the hand.
 
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I usually start from the start of the tournament or at least I have 20BBs. Sometimes I'm coming in and I take a double rebuy and ad on
 
during the late registration period, I have no luck to increase my chips and continue to raise the game, I prefer to play from the very beginning. This is much more interesting
 
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hit register with "under a minute" left in late reg. I don't know exactly how many seconds I had to spare. But I know I saved about 2h and 59 minutes .....and still won. 1st of 846 The bigger and softer the field, the more I like late reg. freerolls/micros-late reg. Venom step 1with 1500+- can late reg and take top 113 50%+- planing a/i or fold - and stalling with top % of your range and position. Step 2-the easiest by far. Steps 3 and 1 are close...Steps 4+ game on. lol. Made step 5 many times. Step 6, and the 5M seat, still elude. Steps 4+ often have some nice bubbles. Miss the hourly Venoms with turbo format. could bubble $ free daily.... and once you switch your account to 27% rakeback... the entry fees convert to cash - daily.. yeah... rambling. lol.
 
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