 It's true...
I think it was in Phil Gordon's book that I read that for re-buys, you just calculate your total equity in the tourney if you re-buy -- if it's bigger than the re-buy, buy back in. At the very least, your entry goes into the prize pool, so you should be even. For those tournaments with guaranteed prize money which is often in excess of the original buy-ins, it can be positive too. And of course, if you believe you're a good player, you get positive equity from that. So sure, there are lots of reasons to play re-buys and dive back in.
For me, the situation is more than it's disheartening to take players out of the game again and again (sometimes in all-in situations) and find they never leave! What you think is a 200-person tourney effectively becomes a 400-person tourney before it's over! |