Ha! What's a rebuy?

(No I'm not actually asking that question )

I played my first rebuy tourney yesterday. I usually stray away because I'd rather play where people are out when they get out. I played in a $20,000 guaranteed with a $10+$1 buy-in at Royal Vegas Poker. I wasn't planning on rebuying though, I mostly just wanted to see hwo things went and f I should consider playing more of them.

Anyway, there were 1100 entrants with unlimited rebuys for first hour and one add-on available at the first break. 100 people were to be paid. I was surprised when it after the first hour only 150 people were gone, but I suppose that's normal. After that they started to drop like flies though. I was on a roll too, I made plenty of great bluffs as well as read some high paying bluffs well and caught them at it.

I figured it'd be impossible to do well in a rebuy tourney without rebuying, but I was completely wrong! It's just as easy to take advantage of the looseness that possesses the tournament because of the rebuy option. At my first table I saw one guy rebuy 5 times and another rebuy even more. I knocked the same guy out atleast 3 times. I was doing so well, in fact, that I was in the top 20 for about the first 2 and a half hours of the tourney, reaching as high as 5th place. (I've had a tendency to do that at RVP, this was the first buy-in MTT I've played, but I've played a few of the $1000 freerolls and have been on the top page (top 20) for a couple hours in each one I played. I don't know how...Maybe I'm just getting better haha)

After those first couple hours though I couldn't seem to get any higher in the chip rank and kind of hung where I was. Eventually the tournament caught up with me and I was normal again. Haha.

But, my point, ah yes. I ended up placing 50th, which kind of made me sad, I was doing well until the 4000-8000 blinds came and wiped me out after a bad bluff. I claimed a prize of $82 after only paying $11, which isn't my biggest payout but it's still cool. The prize pool, by the way, got up to $28000, when their were only enough buy-ins in the beginning for $11,000, which means that there were $17,000 in rebuys and add-ons!

Who needs a rebuy! Just take advantage of everyone who's playing like they don't mind buying in again!

Jon

yer i came 3rd in a rebuy tourny on noble without a rebuy

having said that i have come nowhere with a couple of rebuys as well but the overlay was there to make a gamble