Preregistering is + EV

So after I ate a wonderful, home-cooked dinner, I sat down to preregister for all my Sunday tourneys. After I finished I went out with my gf to get a new french press (kinda wish I had done something cool though, would have added to the story). When we get back we play with our dog for a bit to sit down and watch TV. Awhile later I get on my laptop to check my email and see a message in the Bodog lobby which read something like, "Your $150 buy-in 5k guaranteed is starting, click here to open table." Naturally I click ok. The table pops up and I see that I have 11 bbs left at 100/200. I check the lobby and immediately realize my mistake. I meant to register for tomorrow's, 100k guaranteed but I sorted by buy-in rather than date and then mis click preregistered the wrong tourney. I was 18 of 18 remaining players in what had been a 45 player field.

Ended up making one suckout double and then running my stack up to CL in time for the 5 person money bubble. Totally owned the money bubble but ended up coming in second for 1600. Moral of the story is always prereg but make sure to check you comp periodically after doing so.

For what its worth I really do think preregistering is +EV. Any serious player should be keeping track of every tourney he regularly plays. He should note buy-in amounts, cashes and net wins/losses. This can easily be done using online tools such as thepokerdb. Players should periodically evaluate there performance in each and drop tourneys in which they do not prove profitable. In doing this they gradually create a set schedule for each day of play. Once a player knows his schedule, he might as well register in advance to avoid accidentally missing a profitable tourney or rushing to register mid-day.

Good luck to those of you who are playing tomorrow. Two seconds this week. Only a win tomorrow will make me happy.

DS