You can prove the value of late registration to yourself with @GTOWizard's free ICM calculator. Let's examine a $200 buy-in classic MTT with 1000 runners, 150 paid. We start with 100 chips being worth $200. Now let's say that 50% of the field remains. That means the average stack is 200 chips. If we late register we enter with 100 chips, half the average stack. So how much is our half-stack worth? Well, here you can see it's worth $220! That's a 10% ROI boost from doing nothing. With 35% of the field remaining (350/1000), the average stack is (100 / 35%) = 285.7 chips. How much is a 100 chip stack worth in this case? About $234, or a 17% ROI boost. As you get closer to the money, the value of a starting stack increases exponentially. This isn't just about the time value of money. The value of a late bullet is worth significantly more than an early bullet. Early bullets are essentially paying EV to late bullets. Now, you may be thinking to yourself that early stages are softer and more fishy. But you'd be surprised how hard it is to justify playing from start in a (non-KO) MTT based on skill edge alone. See QT for details on simulating MTTs with skill edge. x.com/tombos21/status/199630…

Hi everyone, World Poker Masters has officially come to an end, and the level of support the community showed throughout the series was incredible to see. From the beginning, World Poker Masters was built to be the biggest and most ambitious tournament series CoinPoker had ever run. The goal was not just to create bigger guarantees, but to deliver a series that players would genuinely rally behind and remember as a major moment for the platform and the community around it. Over the course of the series, World Poker Masters generated over 476,489 entries and paid out over $48M in prize money, far surpassing the original $25M guaranteed. Along the way, we also broke multiple records for both tournament prize pools and field sizes across the platform. This is not only a huge milestone for CoinPoker, but for every single player who has supported the platform and helped us grow to this point. WPM was the result of months of hard work from a team that cared deeply about delivering a series players would genuinely want to be part of. Seeing the response from the community over the past weeks made all of that work worth it. And because of that support, we wanted to give something back. Over the past week, the team has been reviewing the weekly MTT schedule, and we’re happy to announce that CoinPoker’s weekly guarantees will now increase by an additional $2,000,000 per week. This is our way of thanking everyone who showed up, played, streamed, supported the series, and helped push CoinPoker to new heights throughout World Poker Masters. World Poker Masters was a major step forward for CoinPoker, and we’re incredibly excited about what's coming next. We’re going to keep building, keep improving, and keep pushing to deliver bigger and better experiences for the community. Thank you again for being part of this journey, and we hope you continue along for the ride. The CoinPoker Team