The ever-ending question about re-buys and addons..
My old tournament (250BB) had one re-buy/addon for first 2 hours. Addon was 1/4th SS (and saw good response, usually 60%-75% buys it).
Rebuy was on average 0-1 per tournament, more often 0. The time it does happen, it isn't because someone felted, but because they had maybe around half stack, but paid a full buy-in for re-fill to start stack. We don't have maniacs in my group.
New tournament, will be increased to 300BB. Same blind increases (50-33), fairly slow levels at 24 min.
250 BB (old) vs 300 BB (new).
After two hours of play, the final level before re-buy/addon break, was played with
62,5 BB (old) vs 75 BB (new)
So, since we rarely saw re-buys before (felted), I'm assuming that the chance to bust with the new plan is even smaller, so basically only the addon will be relevant. Re-buy will almost never happen.
Thus, I had a plan to maybe alter the options to (original buy-in for 90K is 200 NOK):
Felted or UNDER 45K:
1 "re-buy" (if felted) or as addon? 45K - 100 NOK. (28.13 BB)
OR
1 addon for 25K - 55 NOK. (15.6 BB)
Since the "re-buy" is now half price, it will be a far more interesting option for those who are cruising around half stack. Previously they would not re-buy. They would sometimes addon, but that only brings half the chips/money into the pot compared to the "half re-buy".
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Thoughts? Anyone done something similar? Unsure about the "threshold".
I like addons, simply because it's a nice way to get more money in pot, but it is OPTIONAL (as opposed to just raising the buy-in). I've asked about raising the buy-in, and it has been frowned upon by some in the group.. So this is a better way I think.
Re-buy is also nice to have in some form or another, but with 300BB it kind of shouldn't really happen..
Goals
My old tournament (250BB) had one re-buy/addon for first 2 hours. Addon was 1/4th SS (and saw good response, usually 60%-75% buys it).
Rebuy was on average 0-1 per tournament, more often 0. The time it does happen, it isn't because someone felted, but because they had maybe around half stack, but paid a full buy-in for re-fill to start stack. We don't have maniacs in my group.
New tournament, will be increased to 300BB. Same blind increases (50-33), fairly slow levels at 24 min.
250 BB (old) vs 300 BB (new).
After two hours of play, the final level before re-buy/addon break, was played with
62,5 BB (old) vs 75 BB (new)
So, since we rarely saw re-buys before (felted), I'm assuming that the chance to bust with the new plan is even smaller, so basically only the addon will be relevant. Re-buy will almost never happen.
Thus, I had a plan to maybe alter the options to (original buy-in for 90K is 200 NOK):
Felted or UNDER 45K:
1 "re-buy" (if felted) or as addon? 45K - 100 NOK. (28.13 BB)
OR
1 addon for 25K - 55 NOK. (15.6 BB)
Since the "re-buy" is now half price, it will be a far more interesting option for those who are cruising around half stack. Previously they would not re-buy. They would sometimes addon, but that only brings half the chips/money into the pot compared to the "half re-buy".
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Thoughts? Anyone done something similar? Unsure about the "threshold".
I like addons, simply because it's a nice way to get more money in pot, but it is OPTIONAL (as opposed to just raising the buy-in). I've asked about raising the buy-in, and it has been frowned upon by some in the group.. So this is a better way I think.
Re-buy is also nice to have in some form or another, but with 300BB it kind of shouldn't really happen..
Goals
- Get more money in pot outside of the buy-ins. But still keep the tournament deep stacked. (minimum 250 BB).
- Bad beat/cold deck protection. (if felted). For example, they start with 45K, 28 BB, which is a manageable stack.
- Allow the ones with the smallest stacks to catch up a little bit (45K option), at the expense of fueling more money into the pot of course.
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