Hi all,
I'm glad that this thread has started some good critical opinion, that's what I believe a forum should be. Help and freindly critical discussion.
I am still playing in GP re-buy tourney's and have yet to fail to lose 'on the bubble' or above. I'm not rich by the way, sometimes its just getting money back!
I still play tight before the re-buy and choose the add-on at the break except this one occasion a couple of days ago:-
It was a $3000 GP tourney with 274 entered. Within forty minutes I had only accumilated an extra 200 chips thereaboputs and entered the flop with K rags. The flop was K K 6.
I checked and the nest person checked,
The turn was a 4 and I put in a small bet to increase the win value, He raised and I called.
The river was 2 and I checked expecting a sizeable bet. He went all in so I put the rest of my chips in with a smile. I did consider the hidden boat, but decided to risk it.
He had hit his straight (quite well hidden wouldn't you agree).
I did re-buy on that occasion and a couple of hands later I got my chips back.
By the first break I had close on 9000 chips and did not add-on as I was in 8th position.
I went on to finish 12th. With an outlay of $10 and a return of $35 I was quite happy. That took 3 hrs and so $5 per hour does not sound much, but if you finish in the top 10 it is well worth playing (winner recieves $980).
In what I've been looking at recently I do feel that 'money-added' and low buy-in GP w/th re-buy/Add-on tournaments will give you the best value for you're bank roll in the long run.
And finally....
If anyone is subscribed to 'pokerplayer' magazine, I sent the original post I made to them in an e-mail and it got printed in their letters section. They have done an article about re-buy survival and but have not read it yet. They also added a final line to my original text which reads 'Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated'. mmmmm. The only advice I usually listen to is from you guys and girls.
I will send them some more and try to get this forum advertised in the letter (might get edited out as they did chop up my original text and made additions!).
Tace care and GL all,
Dom
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