WSOP $1K rebuy brings the LOLZ

From the PokerNews coverage:

It's like the opening ten minutes of a freeroll, most amusing

Thats why I hate rebuys. Only thing I will play is the $3+R on stars and thats only when im in a straight mood to gambool.

premierplayer said:

Thats why I hate rebuys. Only thing I will play is the $3+R on stars and thats only when im in a straight mood to gambool.

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Yeah, but let's keep this in perspective. To most of the players in that tourney $1000 is like $3 to you and me.

^ this.

The rebuy period is over now, but apparently one table (with Sorel Mizzi, Mark Vos and a few others, not the one mentioned above) made a total of 50-something rebuys. Just one of the players was into the game for well over $20K in rebuys.

man if anyone gets a video link to this that would be sooo great to watch. watching n00bs do it for their $3 cracks me up, watching pros do it for a grand would be LoL.

IIRC, last year Daniel Negreanu spent $53K on this event. And didn't cash.

^^^ Is that true?

I cant see how someone can get 51 rebuys and an add on, even if they went all in and lost every hand, surely there isn't enough time before the rebuy period ends

Just researched it - he rebought 48 times. My work blocks most poker links, so I can't give one, but a google search for "daniel negreanu rebuys' brought tons of articles from last year with that info in the description.

that many 1000$ rebuys is just heinous

switch0723 said:

^^^ Is that true?

I cant see how someone can get 51 rebuys and an add on, even if they went all in and lost every hand, surely there isn't enough time before the rebuy period ends

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They are 60 minute levels at the wsop. And they go for 2 levels before the rebuys stop. Plenty of time to get in 51 rebuys.

GunslingerZ said:

IIRC, last year Daniel Negreanu spent $53K on this event. And didn't cash.

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This year he spent significantly less than that (12, maybe), and he made it to the money second in chips.

Keep in mind that there's a method to his madness too: what he's doing is dumping a huge number of chips onto his table, which he intends to win back.

The quantity of chips on your table puts a practical limit on the number of times you can double through - if people have only made a few rebuys and there's only, say, $20K total chips on your table, then you can't expect to build a stack much bigger than say $15K. Absolute best outcome is you knock everyone on your table out and take the whole $20K. Whereas if you've put in a ton of rebuys yourself, suddenly there might be $50K getting about on your table, and you've got a much better chance of building a dominating stack.

One year in particular Negranu used this strategy and came in third - making a sizeable profit on the tournament, even after making about $30,000 in rebuys. Other years he's bombed on the first day though. Seems this year he's found the happy medium.

I'll put this in here so I'm not clogging up the board with a new thread for every WSOP hand that makes me laugh... because lots of them do, and this is one. It's from the $10K mixed-games championship that started today, coverage from PokerNews again:

OK, deuce-seven isn't the most common game, and not everyone knows it. But surely if you're going to pay $10K to enter an event where it's played, you'd at least learn the basic rules?

Then there's the even funnier part: they've been rotating games every eight hands, and this one happened almost six and a half hours in. What has this guy been doing, folding pre-draw every time deuce-seven rolls around until now?

OzExorcist said:

OK, deuce-seven isn't the most common game, and not everyone knows it. But surely if you're going to pay $10K to enter an event where it's played, you'd at least learn the basic rules?

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You would think, but again, since $10K is like $10 to most of these folks, I guess he thought he could skate through most of the stuff he didn't know.

There was another hand in this tourney where Dario Minieri was playing Razz and betting an A 10 10 into someone showing a A 5 6. He lost a ton when his opponent showed down a 65 low.

Makes me wish I had a disposable $10K right now...

LOL - true.

But even then: the game had been going six hours, and they're changing games every eight hands. So he must've seen a few dozen hands of decue-seven, surely at least enough to know how many betting rounds there are

dario minieri is spewtard
if only i had the money to enter that lowball game...