Playing in a re-buy tournament
Re-buy
tournaments can be a lot of fun, but they can also kill your bankroll of you
are not careful. Many online
poker players get excited about the guarantees and then figure that it is
only ₹x and it’s no big deal as long as they don’t re-buy and add on. The
problem is, unless you get very lucky very early you are dooming yourself to
failure. This is by playing at a limit that you cannot afford to re-buy at.
The first hour
of a re-buy tournament is far from a normal tournament in the online poker
India. While you may think you can play poker conservatively and get away with
not re-buying. You are going to be put to a decision time and time again by
more aggressive players with huge bankrolls. When you have a ₹200 bankroll, you
cannot play in a ₹10 re-buy and expect to do well.
You see, the
problem is that the people with the large bankrolls have a tendency to treat
this as a 5 or 6 buy in event. So in order to be effective, you need to buy
into tournaments that you can do the same thing with. Playing ₹1 and ₹2
buys-ins would be more to your liking.
Holding
the chips longer :
In most cases,
the first hour of play is all about getting your chips in with the best hand
and hoping they hold up. Whether you like it or not, you are more than likely
going to have someone at your table. This person is willing to throw their
money into the pot every time they play a hand. This is far from a
recommendation that you should play poker online that way, you
just need to realize that every time you put chips into the middle of the
table, you just may have someone come over the top and put you on a decision.
The question is
how do you play against this? First and foremost, don’t ever buy into a re-buy
tournament unless you can take advantage of the first online poker real money
re-buy right off the bat. You start the tournament with double the chips. And
if you do manage to double up, you are well on your way to a monster stack.
You also need to
plan on purchasing a double add on at the break. Anyone who plans on winning
this will be doing an add-on. You will fall 4,000 chips behind everyone else in
the tourney if you don’t use it. Plan on it! Finally, expect to have to re-buy
at least once before the break. That is a total of 6 re-buys that you should
plan on paying for.
Do
not play scared :
Now you can
start to see how only having enough money for the buy in is a problem. A ₹10
re-buy should be treated more like a ₹60 buy in. No while you can play in a ₹6
tournament with a ₹200 bankroll, you have no right getting into a ₹60 tournament.
You are going to be playing scared the whole time and we all know that scared
money never wins.
In regards to
your actual play, keep it the same way you would play normally. Just expect to
have some extra chips in the pot and definitely expect people to be all in on
draws. Since they can re-buy, they are going to have no fear about tossing
those chips in there. If you are willing to take a little risk, you can take
advantage of this and use it to build a stack. If you get a little unlucky, you
can either drop out or buy back in and take another shot.
Remember, when
you are playing in a re-buy, expect to pay at least 4 times the buy in overall
and preferably 6. Expect to be put on a decision for all of your chips at any
time and when you see a draw, if you plan on buying back in if you lose your
stack, exploit the situation to get the other player on the draw to put all of
their chips in the middle. When your cards hold, you will find that you go into
the break with a huge stack. When everyone comes back and play gets back to
normal, you will be at a huge advantage and ready to make your run for the
final table!
Happy playing!
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