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Topups

  • 07-03-2006 11:55am
    #1
    max_power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭


    Just a quick question, anyone see the point in top-up's? Apart from increasing the prize pool obviously. They supposed to help you keep up with the blinds? (should be down to your play). Anyway the point is i think they just favour richer people, not better players, i'm a poor student by the way(sympathy please). any opinions?


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  • #2
    Culchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,047 ✭✭✭Culchie


    max_power wrote:
    Just a quick question, anyone see the point in top-up's? Apart from increasing the prize pool obviously. They supposed to help you keep up with the blinds? (should be down to your play). Anyway the point is i think they just favour richer people, not better players, i'm a poor student by the way(sympathy please). any opinions?

    It's a different type of game, I don't see how it favours rich people.
    If they are rebuying, someone else has their chips?

    It disadvantages people playing outside their bankroll safety zone alright, but whose fault is that?

    Poker wouldn't be half as attractive without an attractive prize pool either, would it?


  • #3
    fixer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 555 ✭✭✭fixer


    Look at it as if you are getting a 50% discount on entry, and if you play well and accumulate a good stack before the break, you can retain that 50% savings.

    On a tangent, what are your criteria for when you take a top-up or not? I know some guys will almost always take it, and other who never do.

    Myself, I tend to take it if I am around chip average (before top-ups) or if I am at/near chip leader on the table and someone else within a top-up of me. If I am below average, I will seldom take the top-up (unless I feel the table is exceptionally weak).


  • #4
    Culchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,047 ✭✭✭Culchie


    If the top up adds 25%* to my stack, I take it.

    *Will go to 30% if alot of large stacks at table


  • #5
    max_power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭max_power


    good point culchie, was just kinda curios as to other peoples opinions on them, still gonna stick to the f/o i think.


  • #6
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,859 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Unless I have half the chips in play I topup......

    Strangely enough this has never happened me yet.


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  • #7
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    I topped up at every opportunity. Then I realised that after the break I often got knocked out in one big hand. So now I don't top up. Or more correctly I get my top up by doubling up shortly after the break.


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