Very shortly, you’ll be seeing the first phase of a new tournament schedule at Cake Poker. We’re very excited about it and we think that once you see it, you will be too. Online poker sites are coming out with new tournament schedules on a regular basis and it’s reasonable for you to ask, “So, what’s the big deal?” Furthermore, this Guest Column I’m writing is supposed to be editorial space, not marketing information. So, I need to go a bit beyond “Hey, our new tournament schedule is coming out.” I thought it would be interesting to give you some of our rationale behind the new schedule. This is the first major overhaul of Cake’s tournament offering since the site was formed and we wanted to make major improvements. One of the best things we did was bring in two ultra-bright tournament players to add their input to the process. Specifically, Serge “adanthar” Ravitch and Eric “rizen” Lynch sat with us and gave their perspectives as multi-table tournament (MTT) professionals. Here are some of the cornerstones of the plan that came out of those meetings: 1. Longer late-registration is good. There are lots of reasons for this, but the bottom line is that ...