Why rebuy online?

Drakar

Ok, lets imagine the simple situation first. You're well on in a tournament, half the players are left, and stacks are big. You go all in with AA and get out drawn. Here it wouldn't make sense to rebuy as you'd just be rebuying to be in a position where you have on average half the stack size of everyone else.

Hence, if we look at the other extreme, the game has just started, you lose with your AA all in, and another rebuy still leaves you in a worse chip position than the average (I know it's just slightly worse, but it's worse than buying into a new tournament).

I know there may be other reasons for rebuying when in a real casino where there may not be other games to buy into, or if you travel for an hour, then lose on your first hand it may make sense to buy in again, but why rebuy online?

Krusty_Clown

Well, for a start, you're not necessarily starting from a position any worse than your original situation. You have the advantage of returning to the exact same seat, with the exact same players, so any derived knowledge is still very valuable. But you are correct, it does depend on the stage of the tournament.

On VC though, (in the cheaper MTTs anyway) a lot of the players play very recklessly during the rebuy period in order to try and secure a chip-lead before the freeze-out. You can use this to your advantage, but it can be a little frustrating when your AA loses to an A7..

Drakar

The way I was thinking, was that you'll always be buying in for full price and getting less than the average number of chips. You are right though, there are advantages to knowing your table if its after a good few hands (I suppose also the difference in stack sizes would generally be quite small if it's quite early).

Shortstack

A common tactic in some of the bigger online rebuys events ie: 500+ runner $10 on Pokerstars is to delibately lose chips early on in order to loosen up the table and create chips for the table. I saw a table the other night where from starting chips of 1500 per player, one table had over 80,000 chips on it within 30 mins !
The table average was nearly 9000 whereas the tournie average was only 3000. Two players had over 25,000 each. Once the freezeout comes in to play they are in a great position.
I personally prefer to play on one of these tables as tight as a ducks A*** and reap the rewards whenever I get a premium hand.

Lafortezza

It also depends if you think you are one of the better players in the tournament.
If you get a rebuy when you get busted you (if you're a better player than most of the other runner) are really just 'loaning' those chips to worse players!

Its like that Negreanu tournament $1000 buy-in, he re-bought 27 times!! Ended up getting to final table and pocketing $75000 prize money, so to him all those rebuys were worth it.

Iago

lafortezza wrote:

Its like that Negreanu tournament $1000 buy-in, he re-bought 27 times!! Ended up getting to final table and pocketing $75000 prize money, so to him all those rebuys were worth it.

He also went out in the second hand of a $10K buyin game with the blinds at 25/50 when he called an all-in with 23d after the flop came down Q 6 3 with two diamonds

Personally I think he's just slightly mad in the head, good but mad in the head

Lafortezza

Good, mad in the head, and very very rich.