Never miss late registration again.

Late registration (“late reg”) is the period after a tournament has started during which you can still buy in. Most online MTTs stay open for a set number of levels or minutes after the first hand — you take your seat with the full starting stack and play from there. When the window closes, the field is locked and no one else can enter.

It depends entirely on the structure, and it varies by site and format. Turbos and hyper-turbos often close after just a few levels; regular and deepstack events can stay open for two hours or more, frequently until the first break. Because every network sets its own window and displays it differently, the only reliable way to know your exact remaining time is to read it per tournament — which is what Late Reg Alarm does.

It can be, and for many winning players it often is, but it’s a structure-dependent decision rather than a rule. The stronger case is usually hourly EV, not a single-table edge: staggering entries lets you run more tables in one session and skip the slow, deep opening levels, while late windows are where overlays and shorter-stacked spots appear. The counterweight is stack depth — in most tournaments you’ll be fairly short by the close, often around 10–16 big blinds (shallower still in turbos), with only a genuine deepstack structure leaving much room. Worth it comes down to your edge in that field, how top-heavy the payouts run, and how short you’ll be when you sit down.

Mostly for efficiency and volume, not for a per-tournament edge. Staggering your entries means several tournaments don’t all start deep-stacked at once, so you can run more tables and spend less time in the low-pressure early levels. Late windows are also where overlays (tournaments that didn’t fill their guarantee) and shallower push-or-fold spots turn up — spots where a prepared reg has a clear edge. The catch: it only works if you actually enter before the window shuts, which is easy to miss when you’re buried in other tables.

Usually shorter than people expect. In most online MTTs you’re down to roughly 10–16 big blinds by the time late reg closes, because the blinds keep climbing for the whole window — turbos and hypers are shallower still, and only a genuine deepstack structure leaves you meaningfully deeper. In practice that makes late-regging mostly a commitment to short-stack, push-or-fold play rather than deep postflop poker, so it rewards a strong short-stack game. It’s the single biggest thing to check before you enter.

No. With the tab open, the app fires an in-page alarm (sound plus an on-screen card). With the tab or the whole browser window closed, a separate Web Push notification is delivered to your device — the two channels run independently, so a buried or frozen tab can’t swallow your alert. You just need to have allowed notifications once and be online.

Yes. When an alarm fires, the push goes to every device you’ve subscribed — up to ten — at once, so your laptop and phone both light up and you don’t have to guess which screen you’ll be looking at. Add your phone and you’re covered even when you step away from the desk. (On iPhone, Web Push works once you’ve added the site to your Home Screen — see the devices question below.)

Every alarm is logged with an honest delivery status, and your recent alarms show up as a receipt strip in the app. A delivered push is marked sent; a temporary failure is retried automatically and shown as failed until it succeeds; and if no device is subscribed, that’s flagged rather than silently dropped. Nothing is marked “done” without a real delivery result — so you can trust the tool instead of hoping it worked.

As accurate as the tournament’s real close time. Late registration doesn’t end at the same point on every network, so Late Reg Alarm keeps a separate closing time for each tournament rather than applying one blanket rule. Some networks can shift their exact close by a minute or two depending on levels and breaks, so the time is a close estimate, not a guarantee. That’s what the lead time is for: the alarm fires those minutes early, so a small drift still leaves you room to register. A server checks for due alarms every 15 seconds.

The major poker sites and networks — GGPoker, PokerStars, ACR, WPT Global, Winamax and 16 more — 21 in total.

Yes. Alongside the shared catalog — which fills itself automatically and refreshes in the background — you can add private tournaments that only you can see, each with its own late-reg time and alarm. So a satellite, an off-catalog event or a smaller site’s tournament gets the same countdown and alert as everything else.

Any modern desktop or mobile browser — Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave and Safari all work, and alerts arrive as normal operating-system notifications. On iPhone and iPad there’s one extra step: because of an Apple restriction, Web Push only works after you add the site to your Home Screen (Share → Add to Home Screen, iOS 16.4 or later). On desktop, keep the browser running in the background — a fully quit browser or an offline device may only receive the alert once it’s back.

No. There are no ad or analytics trackers and no third-party marketing pixels — only a handful of strictly necessary cookies for login and security. Your data (email, plan status, settings and the tournaments and timers you track) is stored on servers in Germany, and your password is only ever kept as a hash. Notifications carry just the alert content — a tournament name and time — nothing more.

Free lets you track up to five active tournaments at once with a fixed three-minute lead time — enough to try it properly. Pro removes the limit, lets you set your own default lead time anywhere from 1 to 15 minutes (with a per-tournament choice of 5, 3, 2 or 1 minute), and adds saved filter presets so you can re-apply a catalog search in one click. Pricing is $9.90 a month or $89.00 a year, VAT added at checkout where applicable.

Yes. Pro is billed monthly or yearly with no lock-in — cancel whenever you want and you keep Pro access until the end of the period you’ve already paid for. Payments run through Paddle as the merchant of record, so your card details never touch our servers.

No. Late Reg Alarm is a timing and alarm tool, not a poker room. It doesn’t deal cards, run games, take bets or hold any of your money, and it connects to nothing on the poker sites themselves. All it does is track when a tournament’s late-registration window closes and alert you in time — where and how you play is entirely up to you.