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 Originally Posted by surviva316
i've never understood this article, and hence, have always stayed away from rebuy tourney's despite how fishy they are:
http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...gy-106184.html
is a rebuy tourney really ANY different from a regular tourney where a SHITTONNE of people are rebuying?! i mean, other than really minor stuff that doens't effect ev that much like metagame and reads, how is rebuying any different from late registry? so i understand always purchasing the add ons, but why should you play super spewy and rebuy ten times and all that crap? isn't it just ev to play it like a normal tourney with a huge registry pool, where you have to play a lot lighter 'cause people are spewing?
Good question sir. Personally I can't stomach rebuys and generally avoid them. That being said, if I am adequately rolled, and properly motivated, I might try my hand at them. The guide you linked however is 6 years old, I really don't know how much, if any, of that stuff still applies.
All that being said, it's not a bad idea to play these with the intention of identifying favourable preflop AI situations (towards the end of the rebuy hour, players get awfully loose, shoving any two etc) and rolling the dice with a couple buy-ins in an effort to build up a decent stack going into the first break. I personally wouldn't recommend the whole 'commit yourself to spending 8 buy-ins and make sure you at least quadruple up before the add-on period' mentality, but I imagine it works for some. Seems high variance though, given how little the advantage of having a large stack that early on in a tourney means. Bear in mind that everyone will be INCREDIBLY deep relative to the blinds following the first hour, and MTT players aren't, in general, that great at playing deep. Any cash reg has a huge edge at this point of a rebuy tourney, imo.
It's also not out of the question to just double-buy-in and get an add-on, and essentially play it like a cubed tourney; this would be more along the lines of what you said, playing very tight etc and generally following the same playstyle you normally would in an MTT. This isn't to say you'd fold anything but KK/AA pre; if you figure out a given player is shoving light, say top 30% of hands or so, you're well within your rights to cold call his shove with AQo+ etc.
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