Solution about Late Registration

I like the late reg. It really bloats the prize pool, and people suck at poker, which therefore bloats the winner's cash when I eventually pwn everyone.

I think it should be done like it is in the local casino. There are two empty seats at each table with starting chip stacks. The chips are taken from those seats when the blinds hit them. If somebody registers late they take those seats whether the blinds have hit them or not. The late registration is only open for the first level then closed.

I emailed Full Tilt the day of that update......as soon as I saw a late registration was going on for 10 minutes after the tourney started, I thought that was too much time.

I saw a private game that same day......$11 buy in, running over 2 hours and I could still register for it. It's good to have late registration, but I think 2-3 minutes is good enough.

I always assumed it was the option of the host to have late registration or not. Are you saying that its actually just the way Full Tilt operates all scheduled tournaments?

i think it sucks but i like buttondogs idea

ans that what im going to email them

I need to correct my posting...the email address that you want to send to is feedback@fulltiltpoker.com.

Sorry about the misinformation.

Late registration are usually early losers, so I pretty like the idea... I played once against 3 late participants, they went all-in after 4 or 5 hands. It's free money after all :P

The more fish in the tank, the better it is.

Like it or not, late registration is here to stay. Full Tilt received enough requests to implement it in the first place to maintain competition with PokerStars. They won't be removing it.

How late registration functions is where the complaints are coming from. You must remember that this is a block of software code that implements a maze of IF...THEN....ELSE statements sprinkled with a hefty dose of TRUE/FALSE switches. This all has to be compiled and then tested for loop errors and correct results. Every modification requires the entire block to be recompiled and tested over and over again. And, in the end, ALL of this block has to be incorporated into the main program and must run in a nano-second so as not to impede the performance speed of the software....the 'LAG' you sometimes experience.

This is Full Tilt s first attempt at late registration and there are bugs, obviously. This will be tweaked over the next few series of updates, I'm sure, and you will begin to see some differences that will address your concerns. This is how software programming works. It's not as easy as flipping a switch.

I think the above post is saying what I'm about to say, but I'm not 100% on it. If not, whatever. Basically in order to change a universal setting such as this, Full Tilt is going to have to rewrite a lot of the scripts for the GUI (main page/window) the way they do every time you have to download the new version or update every 2 weeks or so. If they do change anything (which they probably will not) it will be done only at that time and you'd have to get the forced download update, rather than have it be some overnight thing. On top of that, I would say that it's probably a 3:1 for vs. against field for the late reg.

i'm not fully against the late registration. but i do think that it needs to be modified to not make it a punishment for registering on time.

i understand that the change won't come overnight...but i hope to god that they do something with it. even if it is something simple like limiting the number of players who can register late. i just don't like playing in tournaments where 3/4 of the players wait until 8 or 9 minutes in to the thing to get in.