Why can't Party run their 350K and the Semi's at the same time?

[MicroBob]

True.


All of their semi-finals cut-off registration at 1-hour before.
Maybe it has something to do with distributing the extra starting-chips or something weird.
Although it should be pretty easy to do this automatically one would think (thursday's semi-final was cancelled because most started with only 2k in chips when they should have gotten 3k...and somehow they weren't able to get the new one started and correct the issue).



I've always wondered why they cut off their registrations like that.
Some of the Empire guaranteeds would cut-off at 10 minutes or more before the start...thus almost ensuring an overlay.
(I am guessing that some of the party tourneys were like this too...but I was more familiar with the Empire MTT's).

My thoughts were the same....Empire must not like money.
They cut it off 10 minutes BEFORE the start and then have a 10% overlay that they have to pay out that they almost guaranteed would not have had to if they just let the registration stay open longer.

It is kind of weird.


Way to act like a Billion-dollar corporation Party!!
Cut your potential customers OUT of the tournament because you just don't want to make any more profits on it.