I see quite a bit of players seem to do this. First off, in general is late regging tournaments a good idea? i always thought it was a bad idea b/c if even i'm late regging a tournament thats 30 minutes... then well i miss out on the early blind levels in case I could double up.


However, I read that lot of people mention early levels are useless because everyone usually plays very tight so nothing pretty much happens. I heard that if you play a tight game, then playing in the early levels is pretty useless. But if you play loose, then its different because you could build a stack early on. I agree with the loose part, but isn't playing tight pretty good as well because there are bad players that would spew or play big pots with not so good hands early on and you can double up on them?


I also heard late registering helps out with hourly. That makes sense assuming you late reg a tournament 1 hour later, well the same player who is playing tight could just have the same size stack or similar as you. However, how late is too late for late registration? I assume most of you would late reg all the way till 50bb or so and anything less than that is not worth it? What about for turbo mtt? I would say you should never late reg a turbo mtt right? Or 15 minutes late reg at the worst?


However what about those players who are very good short-mid stackers? Wouldn't players like that enter with 20bb and thats still fine? Issue with this though is they coming in with 20bb whereas many others have 50bb plus stacks.


However for those really deep stack tournaments where you start 250bb or more... would you say the early levels is a waste of time since nothing much pretty happens? I know there are some tournaments that start out with 500bb which is of course ridiculous. So when do pots really start mattering then? I would say 100bb? Assuming 2 competent players... no one is going to play a 500bb pot without a huge monster.


Would like if someone can give quick summary on this for late registration.