[Takethepot25]

i prefer freezout tournaments to rebuy. The style of poker played in freezouts is so much better than rebuy its ridiculous. I cannot stand rebuys. Some idiots just go all in everyhand until they double up. Yes the prize pool does get very large but is it worth 5 extra hours of play to get everyone out who rebought about 8 times. I stick with freezouts.

[BadAndy]

Yeah, those damn rebuy tourneys are frustrating, but it's pretty easy to hook the fish in them also, so I don't mind playing them. Not to mention you can rebuy for yourself if you get ripped off by one of those idiots that put all their chips in with Q5off suit. Revenge is a meal best served cold.

[doflovespoker]

I haven't played in them because I don't understand how the re-buy and add-on work. Can someone explain it to me so I know if I should add-on at the break and when is a good time to re-buy.

[beriac]

Sure, re-buy/add-on tournaments generally work like so:

Every player pays their buy-in, and then for some set amount of time, say the first hour, anyone who busts out has the option to "re-buy", or pay the buy-in again to get another stack of starting chips. This increases the size of the prize pool (unless you're below a guarantee threshold or something), and the total number of chips in the game. Then, usually, when the re-buy period expires, everyone gets a chance to do an "add-on", or purchase for the original buy-in amount an additional amount of chips equal to the starting chip stack. After this, there are no more buy-ins.

Freezeout tournaments simply mean no re-buys and no add-ons.

Generally the effect of playing in re-buy tournaments is that you're able to stay later if you wish to continuously re-buy, but it becomes more expensive relative to the prize money, and it takes longer for your competition to be eliminated. I like to think of it like every re-buy is an additional person so it's like you're entering a tournament that as more people, more prize money, and will take more time than it appears originally.

Hope that helps...

[guitarizt]

Definately rebuys. That way if you don't catch any cards the first hour or get a bad beat you're not out.

[doflovespoker]

So I am in a tournament with 1000 starting chips. At the add-on period and can pay the buy-in fee to get another 1000 chips? When is this a good idea? When I am in the bottom of those remaining or at the top?

[beriac]

Hmmm... good questions. You understand it correctly, you can re-buy anytime you bust until the re-buy period ends, and at that point you have 1 chance to add-on an original chip stack to your current stack by paying the buy-in again.

When to do this? That could probably generate some debate. Personally, when I play a re-buy tourney (and this is getting rarer), I try to neither re-buy or add-on. When I do, it's usually because I've encountered dumb luck but think that the level of play is soft and I have a better than average chance of winning. I'd probably be more likely to do an add-on if I had a small stack than a large one, since if you have let's say 5x the original stack for your original entry fee why bother paying it again to increase your stack 20%?

If you go by the math, though, it's all the same -- you add 1 more buy-in to the prize pool and get 1 more buy-in worth of chips, so your own skill aside it shouldn't matter and it's the same deal all the time.

[charterboss]

My preference goes to a freeze out tourney--If I knock a guy out I want him gone and on to the next one. I have and do play in rebuys but always enter with such a low bankaccount that I cant afford to do either so for me , in a sense its still a freezeout tourney..

When I am in a rebuy tourney with a bankroll to back me for a couple of rebuys and a addon this is my justification on both options. As far as the rebuy aspect goes I'll do that if it is very early in the tourney and I had a couple of bad beats right away, then I can rebuy and still have time to catch the leaders. If it is late in the game -then it depends what the average chip stack is and how close to that aspect the rebuy will bring me. If the average level is still 2-3x the rebuy chip amount then no.

As far as add-on goes basically same thing--If im average or slighty above or below then I will because that will maintain my position in the game. Usually if I don't at that point I may fall as many as 20+positions.
Near break time I always look over the tourney stats to determine if any addition funds spent are truly worth the value--much like determining a call due to pot odds.

[Viper05]

i don`t like rebuys

[doflovespoker]

Rebuys seem to allow for people to play a far too different game than I enjoy. I would rather see a person go out once and not worry about whether that person has decided to rebuy a few times to keep themselves in the game. I have played a few and found that they just aren't as much fun for me.