Horseshoe Tunica Rebuy Tournament (1 Viewer)

[Poker Zombie]

So we played in the Horseshoe Tunica Rebuy Tourney last night. They had an interesting format to bump up the pot size.

• $25 buy-in for 2000 chips
• $20 rebuy for 3000 chips
• You may rebuy any time you are at 3000 chips or less (bust-outs may re-enter for $40 and get 6000 in chips)
• $40 Double add-on at the end of the second break, regardless of chipstack, for +6000 chips

Here are the blinds (20 min levels):
25-25
25-50
50-100
Break
100-200, 25 ante
200-400, 50 ante
300-600, 75 ante
break, last chance for rebuy. Double add-on now
400-800, 100 ante
etc.

So to me, the add-on at the start was a no-brainer. Most people opted for that, except the obvious dead-money at the table that was happy to just be playing poker for only $25.

My questions are:

1. When is the rebuy/add-on of no value to you? I have my suggestion, as I will post later, but I want to hear from the educated peanut gallery (exp. @DrStrange )
2. Is there any value in the double add-on? +6000 chips is 7.5 more BB as you go to the next level.

Crap - I cant edit the poll to add

• Double add-on if you are <T16,000
• Double add-on always.

 

[DrStrange]

This is really an $85 buy-in event. Players are strongly advised to pay an extra $20 at the start plus take the $40 2x add-on. There are all sorts of tactical decision to make that fuzz the decision to spend more money, but the general advice is spend to build a bigger stack.

One contrarian thought. A player might decide to adopt a low investment / low chance to win strategy that is focused on getting into the cash game(s) fast unless they get really lucky and turn $25 into a mighty chip stack without buying 9,000 extra chips. I can absolutely respect that plan, especially when you figure the first cash game is likely to be populated with the worst of the player pool on average.

And yes there absolutely is a cash game starting as the tournament players bust out even in a casino. It might even be best of all to sit out the tournament and play cash alone.

 

[Poker Zombie]

This is really an $85 buy-in event. Players are strongly advised to pay an extra $20 at the start plus take the $40 2x add-on. There are all sorts of tactical decision to make that fuzz the decision to spend more money, but the general advice is spend to build a bigger stack.

In most tournaments, I always spend whatever it takes to get the deepest stack possible. The add-on was an anomaly to me though, as you were spending $40 for 7.5 BB. I'm just not sure if that is a value play anymore. 2x the buy-in for +7.5 BB. We were the only players at our table that did not take it, and some really seemed surprised. That said a couple of them were eliminated and rebought in level 6 - effectively (re)starting with 10 BB.

 

[upNdown]

Sounds to me like you did the right thing. I'd probably rather keep the $40 in my pocket and try to win a hand, too.