I was just curious do you like rebuys or do you hate rebuys?

Do you prefer a MTT with rebuys or Freeze out?

Is there an advantage for rebuys?

Do you need to have more poker skills in freeze outs?

I almost want to avoid rebuys myself as people go all in and call with anything and the rebuy right back in.

Now for the pros they probably say that makes the payout better.

But when you have AA and they have 76s and call an all in raise and hit two pair and take you down, now you have to rebuy or be me at what happened. If I rebir seems like I never recover in the same tournament.

Please give me any tips you may have and how does your bankroll handle those?

Should I just stick to freezeouts or do you recommend that I truly try to get good at rebuys, not that I am any good at freeze outs.....Lol

You could say rebuys help bring down variance, as a lot of worse players and some unlucky good players would go out by the time you rebuy, also depends on the table you are in, if the stacks are pretty low and you have a decent read on your opponents and you busted out because you didnt get good cards or lost a flip, rebuy, other wise dont.

Originally Posted by TravelerLloyd

I was just curious do you like rebuys or do you hate rebuys?

Do you prefer a MTT with rebuys or Freeze out?

Is there an advantage for rebuys?

Do you need to have more poker skills in freeze outs?

I almost want to avoid rebuys myself as people go all in and call with anything and the rebuy right back in.

Now for the pros they probably say that makes the payout better.

But when you have AA and they have 76s and call an all in raise and hit two pair and take you down, now you have to rebuy or be me at what happened. If I rebir seems like I never recover in the same tournament.

Please give me any tips you may have and how does your bankroll handle those?

Should I just stick to freezeouts or do you recommend that I truly try to get good at rebuys, not that I am any good at freeze outs.....Lol

Thank you for posting.


The key to rebuys is having an advantage over the field. When you get knocked out by variance you can jump back in and play. This is very much like cash games. You always rebuy in cash games if you have an advantage. If you have no advantage then rebuying fewer bb's is a bad idea
As my title suggests you have to get better to have an advantage. Rebuys help you play more hands per tournament so you can get better. Unless you can just immediately play another tournament which is what you should do instead. The reason being, you will be playing that 100 bb starting stack instead of 30 bb rebuy. You will then get more hands which should lead to more growth, if you are reviewing hands and studying your play.

Hope this helps

Originally Posted by TravelerLloyd

I was just curious do you like rebuys or do you hate rebuys?

Do you prefer a MTT with rebuys or Freeze out?

Is there an advantage for rebuys?

Do you need to have more poker skills in freeze outs?

I almost want to avoid rebuys myself as people go all in and call with anything and the rebuy right back in.

Now for the pros they probably say that makes the payout better.

But when you have AA and they have 76s and call an all in raise and hit two pair and take you down, now you have to rebuy or be me at what happened. If I rebir seems like I never recover in the same tournament.

Please give me any tips you may have and how does your bankroll handle those?

Should I just stick to freezeouts or do you recommend that I truly try to get good at rebuys, not that I am any good at freeze outs.....Lol

for me i hate rebuys cause it makes the game longer and people play real crazy cause they know they could just rebuy

Thank you for the great advice. I believe your thinking is correct. I never looked at it like that, and what you said makes since.

Originally Posted by eetenor

Thank you for posting.


The key to rebuys is having an advantage over the field. When you get knocked out by variance you can jump back in and play. This is very much like cash games. You always rebuy in cash games if you have an advantage. If you have no advantage then rebuying fewer bb's is a bad idea
As my title suggests you have to get better to have an advantage. Rebuys help you play more hands per tournament so you can get better. Unless you can just immediately play another tournament which is what you should do instead. The reason being, you will be playing that 100 bb starting stack instead of 30 bb rebuy. You will then get more hands which should lead to more growth, if you are reviewing hands and studying your play.

Hope this helps

this rebuy method has made me bleed out my bankroll thats why i need to stick to lower tourneys if i am gonna rebuy

people tend to play more loosely when playin a rebuy tournament. That is if your a person that rebuys. I personally am not. I figure if I can't get anywhere are the first entry there is no need in spending money to continue on a hope and a prayer. I don't believe it's smart to continue to pay money to play in a tournament when you've already been wiped out the first time. I move on to another.

Hello I think being able to rebuys can help players who have a lot of money and disadvantage others because they will open their game and do anything.

I dont like the rebuy option. It comes a cash game if someone can rebuy as much. Some bankrolls are bigger than others

I personally dont like rebuy tournaments as I believe it hurt the game more than it helps. I dont mind re-entry's as much as it just like entering late into a tournament. There is one positive aspect that is good with a re buy. If you lose a big hand and there is no other tournament you can jump into right away you can at least still play this one.

I honestly I do not like, many players go all in with nothing and often still win.

I don't like rebuy. I think if you win, you win.And if you have to lose, you lose with the rebuys.Sometimes seen as catastrophically lucky someone.

As mentioned, I am also not a fan as ppl tend to play way more loose and just pop back in .. it also makes a long game even longer

I'm not a fan of rebuys, because there comes a guy with money and just keeps rebuying, he's gotta hit something cool and big, that's why I prefer freezout, but that aside rebuys do kinda help for normal players so they can get back in the game

Rebuy tournaments are very attractive, as the prize pool increases very much and a lot of players like such tournaments. I really love him and I love playing him. I do not have success for now, but I hope I will do something bigger in the near future. Greeting!

I like rebuys tournament because it gives better cash... but I never rebuy myself.

I like re-buys when I need to re-buy, but I would rather play a multi table SNG without re-buys.

Now I can not tournaments with rebuy. Highly addictive tournament time, though I rarely use them. Try to do without them, took off from the tournament, flew.

I prefer Freeze out, you have to play with the most open range.

Rebuys are for the weak players

I prefer the one and you are done tournaments. I think it will make you a better all around poker player if you play with one life.

Im not a fan of rebuys, although there some of the softest mtts available. I believe your supposed to treat them as a 3x buyin freezeout. Always go in with 1 rebuy at the start and 1 addon at the break.

Originally Posted by TravelerLloyd

I was just curious do you like rebuys or do you hate rebuys?

Do you prefer a MTT with rebuys or Freeze out?

Is there an advantage for rebuys?

Do you need to have more poker skills in freeze outs?

I almost want to avoid rebuys myself as people go all in and call with anything and the rebuy right back in.

Now for the pros they probably say that makes the payout better.

But when you have AA and they have 76s and call an all in raise and hit two pair and take you down, now you have to rebuy or be me at what happened. If I rebir seems like I never recover in the same tournament.

Please give me any tips you may have and how does your bankroll handle those?

Should I just stick to freezeouts or do you recommend that I truly try to get good at rebuys, not that I am any good at freeze outs.....Lol

I honestly agree with you in not liking to rebuy. When I enter a tourney with rebuys I do it without planning to rebuy. The only way I do is if I'm really on my game and out playing my opponents and happen to get coolered in a big hand. If I feel I have an advantage even with a starting stack I'll try another bullet. If it's close to the end of the rebuy period and I would be at a heavy disadvantage in regards to stack sizes I wouldn't rebuy though.

Rebay a couple of times you can do but not get carried away! I did rebuy several time. At first they gave me two aces, and I went to Allyn, and I lost with aces. Made another rebuy and the brazilian beat my two kings, complete nonsense turned out.

Well I experienced it today. I was in a rebuy tournaments went all in with KK and the opponent had AA, get beat me.

Bought back in and found out that when you get back in that 3,000 chips is small when the blinds are 750/1500, so I got AK and had to go all in again missed the flop and opponent hit with Q8.

It would not let me rebuy after that, I was out.

So I don't like rebuys but can't find any feeezfreez to play in other than the freeroll.

Originally Posted by Russian
Idiot;5125965

Rebay a couple of times you can do but not get carried away! I did rebuy several time. At first they gave me two aces, and I went to Allyn, and I lost with aces. Made another rebuy and the brazilian beat my two kings, complete nonsense turned out.

Originally Posted by eetenor

Thank you for posting.


The key to rebuys is having an advantage over the field. When you get knocked out by variance you can jump back in and play. This is very much like cash games. You always rebuy in cash games if you have an advantage. If you have no advantage then rebuying fewer bb's is a bad idea
As my title suggests you have to get better to have an advantage. Rebuys help you play more hands per tournament so you can get better. Unless you can just immediately play another tournament which is what you should do instead. The reason being, you will be playing that 100 bb starting stack instead of 30 bb rebuy. You will then get more hands which should lead to more growth, if you are reviewing hands and studying your play.

Hope this helps

I tend to disagree. Assuming that you're playing somewhere you have an advantage...sure it's good to "get back in" since, well, you're a better player than average. But why not just play a different tournament? After all, you're still a better than average player, so yay, you get a chance to play some more. Just like if you had done the re-buy. But here's the catch. With a re-buy, you're buying in for less than the average stack size. Whereas if you just went and played another tournament, you'd have more advantage.

Another way to look at it: if re-buying is good, why not do it five times if needed? Because each time, you're starting stack size gets smaller and smaller relative to the field. It's better to just go enter a new tournament.

(Of course, if another tournament isn't readily available or you bust on the first hand or two, it's a different story, but in general, it's better to just start a new tournament.)

...also, with rebuys, the game has more variance, not less. Since people know they can rebuy, they're more likely to push with their KJ and you find yourself in a lot more coin flip situations. In the long run, people pushing or calling your push when they shouldn't is going to benefit you, but tournaments already have more variance than cash, so anything that increases that is bad, IMO.

Of course, that has nothing to do with whether you should rebuy. It just makes rebuy tournaments worse, IMO.

last night i was rebuying a 3 dollar game with a 20 dollar bankroll and i ended up costing myself my whole bankroll

I think rebuy's are a double edged sword. Rebuy's can be good to increase the pot size but it can also allow players to call a lot of weak hands that may have a chance to win on the river simply because they know that they can rebuy but without the rebuy they would have folded preflop.

• I was just curious do you like rebuys or do you hate rebuys?

Hmmm I Do Like The Cut Off when The Game Really Starts For Me, "Add On"s Are Very Useful I Like them, Rebuys Are Only Good For Me If I Arrive Late and Want to Rebuy Chips to Take All Opponents Chips should they Attack with an all in...

• Do you prefer a MTT with rebuys or Freeze out?

Ummm Don't Have a Preference

• Is there an advantage for rebuys?

Yes, Mainly To The Casino/ Poker Platform For the Guaranteed Pay Outs Some times They Barely Reach the Pay in's for Pay Outs (My Opinion)

• Do you need to have more poker skills in freeze outs?

I Don't Know, But Experience Of CardsChat Freeroll Club I'd Say The Skill Level Is Greater Than Most of the Other Games I've Played With Freeze Out

Stop When The Fun Stops or when it's cold outside

Wow, sorry to hear that. You was having a bad day


You may have went on tilt and ahosho have taken a break.

Either you were just card dead.

Originally Posted by rproctor5076

last night i was rebuying a 3 dollar game with a 20 dollar bankroll and i ended up costing myself my whole bankroll

Not a big fan it encourages loose play and extents the tournament length.

Rebuy are effective when the tournament is worth it and you are already close to the ITM, at the beginning of the tournament I do not like to give Rebuy, I usually like games that do not have Rebuy.

I like freezeouts because it's a capacity to play in, if your playing hyper megastacks then that's another story but I'm not sure if they're in > micro stakes.
If I'm playing well I will re-buy, also if I'm playing bad I will re-buy sometimes but sometimes it's good to just be done and wait for the next day, minimise your losses so they say.

I don't care much for re-buys, because they extend the tournament length. I play small stakes and I find that at that level, the amount of loose play is the same as in regular tournaments.

tournaments with rebuys are not for everyone, regardless of whether you have money to rebuy or not, of course if you play the ideal is that you have to do it, personally I do not like to make repurchases, I have played many rebuy tournaments, many went well and others did not, when I did not just do rebuy because I do not like it, because I did not do very well in the tournament or because there is always a maniac player who loves to bet everything no matter what

I don't like rebuy and I don't do it or maybe very rarely,but there are people who take the advantage of this method and reach finals of big tournaments .

With the fast paced freerolls always in the mix, a rebuy for certain tourneys can be a very useful asset. You have 10 tickets in the 5th step and your sure to make it, right?

If you are going to play rebuys make sure you have an ample bankroll otherwise you can really tear through your balance if you are playing buyins that are too high. Also if you want to be playing at an even playing field so to speak, be prepared to rebuy 2 to 3 times along with using an addon. If you don't do this you are playing at a disadvantage and it would be a better idea to stick to single entry tournaments if those are even still around online.

As you mentioned in one of your posts, if you lose your stack and the levels are really high already, I wouldn't even bother rebuying and just move on from there. Not worth it to try and build from a small stack when there are going to be players with much higher balances than you.

if they are playing loose it probably gives you a chance to take them down with a high pocket pair

I despise this type of tournaments since many players enter only to throw all in with any hand and buy and repurchase and at the end of the day the variance is very large

hi there
I really donīt like rebuying . You have to play with your means
Besides if you are pushed to rebuy is because you are not doinb well is a
specific tournament. So you should leave
Rgds

For me i think rebuy it not good. I hate it it unfair.

In MTT SNG with rebuy, you should take it, in MTT you should not

Hello, I prefer that there is no repurchase

I prefer tournaments without rebuys, to kill or die

I think the situation with AA vs 76 happens with or without the rebuy button. It's very frustrating for the moment; you hate the game at that point but you come and play for more because you love the game. I just think that you are seeing only the empty part of the glass. The rebuys increases the pot and if you get buzz out with an AA pair you still have the option to rebuy and get back in the game.

I like tournaments with rebuy, but I don't rebuy.But its a comfort for me to know, that IF I want to come back after loosing all my stack, I could

At Foxwoods they are all rebuy tournaments. I just don't bring extra money with me to rebuy with if I get knocked out. It keeps me on the straight and narrow. However I do encourage the fish to fire as many bullets they have.

I have no problem re-buying if it is a game that is well within my proper BR management rules. But if I was taking a shot to begin with or it is close then no.