I’ve been playing a tournament they call a $50/50/50 - your $50 buyin gets you a 15k stack. Then you’re allowed up to two $50 15k rebuys. But if you’ve got one rebuy still available to you at the break (and you’re still alive, obviously) you can get a $50 20k add-on instead.
I prefer to try to fire a single bullet. I’ll rebuy if I get knocked out early, but I haven’t bought the addon, because I’m convinced it’s a suckers bet. But I’m not sure how to calculate that.
The starting blinds are 100/100, they go up every 20 minutes to 200, 400, 600, 800, so they’re up to 600/1200 when you come back from break with or without that add on.
Simple math tells me you’re paying around 30 cents per big blind in the first level, and that those add on chips are costing you around $3 per big blind at the break. But I’m pretty sure those chips are worth more by that point, anyway, right?
Not sure what other information helps. They typically get around 40 runners and I’d say they average somewhere between 2 and 2.5 total “buys” per person - there’s usually around 1.5 million chips in play.
But enough with the numbers. Whether I go into that break with 12k, 18k, or 24k, that 20k add-on isn’t going to make me deep. Yeah, it could double my stack size, but it’s still just an extra 16bb - I don’t want to pay for that; I’d rather just win a hand or two. Am I crazy? Is there any way to quantify this?
I prefer to try to fire a single bullet. I’ll rebuy if I get knocked out early, but I haven’t bought the addon, because I’m convinced it’s a suckers bet. But I’m not sure how to calculate that.
The starting blinds are 100/100, they go up every 20 minutes to 200, 400, 600, 800, so they’re up to 600/1200 when you come back from break with or without that add on.
Simple math tells me you’re paying around 30 cents per big blind in the first level, and that those add on chips are costing you around $3 per big blind at the break. But I’m pretty sure those chips are worth more by that point, anyway, right?
Not sure what other information helps. They typically get around 40 runners and I’d say they average somewhere between 2 and 2.5 total “buys” per person - there’s usually around 1.5 million chips in play.
But enough with the numbers. Whether I go into that break with 12k, 18k, or 24k, that 20k add-on isn’t going to make me deep. Yeah, it could double my stack size, but it’s still just an extra 16bb - I don’t want to pay for that; I’d rather just win a hand or two. Am I crazy? Is there any way to quantify this?