gjshand said:Our local does a "Double Chance Freeze Out" when it does it's festivals.
Great format for a tourney, you pay your entry (This one is normally the BIG one, either £500 or £1000 ) and when you sit down you receive only half your chips.
At anytime during the first period you can call on your remaining chips, some choice to take them before the first hand some use it as a buffer in case they end up all-in ad lose (Lets face it, if you got AA first hand and went all-in against a pair of kings and the King comes on the flop you would be slightly miffed at losing £1000 in one hand!)
If you have'nt taken your chips after the hour they are automatically delivered to you.
Yep, what she said. A player that re-buys 10 times is equivalent to 10 players in a freezeout. Who would you rather be up against after the initial re-buy period is over? If you hit a hand early, you'll be on a table with 4-5000 chips, and will love it when billy no-clue re-buys for the 10th time and gets 1,000 chips. Also in the last hands before the first break, shortstacked players are LITERALLY giving chips away - they want to lose their 300 chips, so they can re-buy with 1,000 (and add-on to 2,000!).bubbasbestbabe said:Rebuys are the way to go. If you are a player of any caliber, (and from here you should be),making past the first hour without rebuys is a piece of cake. What makes them great are the players who kept on rebuying increased the pot for you and are among the first to go out after the rebuy session is over.