STT home game rebuy

Playing one soonish at pokerstars. Don't really play rebuy and only doing so because it is a home game.. Can you rebuy straight away and should I?

It depends.
In general I would say no.
The reason is called ICM.

Depends on how many people are in the game, and how many start off with a rebuy.

Start slow. See how things go. For me, I always seem to do OK when I do that. It may be that you play it right, and don't need to rebuy. Maybe even so good that you don't need the add-on (they tend to go hand in hand).

If I rebuy immediately, I tend to get into that 'rebuy fever' and throw sanity to the wind. I do not remember that ever working well for me. It might have, and other things about that tourney pushed the trival rebuys from my memory.

There is a variation on the rebuy/add-on games where you are limited to 1 rebuy. The argument there will be that you don't want to miss an opportunity to double up to 4 buy-ins (or close) early on. Rebuttal is that you only get one major mistake.

If you join rebuy/add-ons late then the trick is to rebuy immediately, and do the rebuy, so that at the rebuy cutoff you are sitting at 3 buy-ins, which is seldom a bad place to be sitting at the 60-90 minute mark. I base that on the notion that in most tourneys (large) at the 60 minute break, about 1/2 the field is gone, and so the average stack is about 2x the buy-in. Last time I did a R/A was before BF, and both the major sites had extended the rebuy period to 90 minutes, which roughly implies 3 buyins average stack size.

if its a home game, dont reby only if you get busted, just goota bust up your buddies and get it in good, beauty of the rebuys, if you get unlucky, go ahead and rebuy, and your buddies will usually give ya action.
Hope that helps!!

TTYL

I'll update this thread.
10 players $3 buy in. Rebought straight away (the other two good players did so i copied). Lost half my chips when someone nailed me on the river so I rebought to 3000 again for another $3. Lost again to a second nuts versus nuts (he made his hand on the river, I already had mine at that point when I shoved). So did a double rebuy so $15 down at this point, I then realised I needed to come 2nd just to be up lol. 3rd was like $14.60 and I'd spent $15 on rebuys. Everyone agreed not to do add ons as we have a few who aren't really regular players and it wasn't really fair when three of us could just buy all the rebuys and add ons when others didn't really want to be spending $15 (it was just me that spent that much though lol) Rode my luck for a fair few hands and made it to the money. From there managed to get heads up against probably the best player when I had a 4:1 chip lead, he cracked my kings with 99 and doubled up so we were around even but mansged to beat him in the end. Won $36 so $15 buy in was just about justifiable.

Cheers for all the advice.

Nice work Blue!

As for rebuying in general, it's interesting because the rebuy usually costs the same amount as the initial entry, but you're buying less valuable chips since chips decline in value. But you often have so many players put in their stacks so light early that it's worth rebuying just to have them covered.

IT sounds like you all had fun which is the main thing, but to actually make some profit is even better.

Great work!