Rebuy tourney (but not re-buying)

[serendipity]

Is it any different if you're playing a re-buy tournament where your initial 1000 chips are .10 and from then on they're .50 each? I know there's one like that on FTP. I could see playing that one and trying to double up quickly and then if you bust just leave since the rebuy costs so much?

Depends on the cost, as illustrated by this post. I never rebuy in this tournament. I try to donk double up, if I miss, I'm out. But when I hit, my chips have doubled for free. That means I only need to hit more than 20% of the time for this play to be +EV.

Doubling your chips this way costs just $0.10 for the attempt, doubling with a rebuy costs $0.50.

 

[BeaverTrump]

I never play RT because this tournaments mismatch principles of fair definition of the strongest, therefore I play only freeze-out. One more reason on which I do not play rebuy, that there is full of fishes of maniacs is, and I like to play with strong contenders. I can make unique exception for games with add-on.