Vanquish,
Better you smash your head into a wall than continue to "go crazy" in the rebuy period as you stated you love to do.
So let's see, what your saying is there is no skill in the rebuy period.
keen assumption.
oh wait no it's not. (please quote me on where i said that there's no skill in the rebuy period)
What you do is throw money at the situation, rebuy, rebuy, rebuy, rebuy, rebuy, push all-in, push all-in, push all-in, push all-in. And based on the sheer math you eventually will end up with 3-4x the average stack what percentage of the time? And how often does that stack get you deep enough into the money to pay you back for all the "crazy" times you somehow don't get 3-4x the average stack or you don't get into the money?
awesome, dr. dick is telling me what i do and don't do. excellent use of the word "rebuy" and the phrase "push all-in" a retarded amount of times for emphasis. you really got me now. you got me so i don't know what i'm doing.
let's ask the expert on rebuys then (that's you, dr. dick):
-why does negreanu still hold the record for most rebuys in a
wsop rebuy event? (its well over 20)
-why do players like sorel, shaundeeb, and bakes (online MTT superstars if you aren't aware) employ the same tactic as i do? maybe you should coach them on rebuy strategy, so you can get them to pay you large sums for your priceless advice
-what stakes do you play? do you have any idea what midstakes+ rebuys play like? can you play them optimally? (read: optimally =/= like the $5 fos you probably play).
correct answers:
-negreanu, sorel, and other tournament pros know that rebuys are designed in such a way that your first table does not break early (you are going to be sitting with the same players for a while, since people don't generally leave after their first time busting during the rebuy period, as you have proven using numbers (read below)) .thus, these expert players shove every hand (negreanu does it in the dark at live rebuys sometimes) and let their opponents build bigger stacks (while, statistically, the experts also eventually build their own to one of 3x the average size). then, when the rebuy period ends, the table is full of bad players (obviously not everyone is "bad" per se, but generally, it is true) with deep stacks. the good players then win their chips back after the rebuy period ends by exploiting these players, and have a deeper stack going into the money, and well deeper into the tournament.
Here is some crazy math for you...based on the tournament we know a minimum of 1025 players out of 1615 made it to the break and added on chips. We also know there were a ton of rebuys, 3349 to be exact. So did all of the players that went "crazy" during the rebuy period end up with 3-4x the average stack size, did all of those players that went "crazy" in the rebuy period make it to the money? Somehow the math just doesn't add up. Now, I'm pretty comfortable in stating the vast majority of players that rebought did not make it to the money and definitely not deep enough to make it profitable over the long run.
cool arbitrary numbers and statistics that don't prove anything except my own points. read above.
So please, by all means keep giving your brillaint insight into the matter and definitely help your fellow poker players out by helping build the chips at the table they can collect from you.
congratulations, you are retarded.
anyways, QED, nice try though!