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Originally Posted by Elvis Henry I just played long enough to donk off my chips. I immediately get dealt AA and I put in, what is for me anyway, an oversized bet of $200 (blinds are $20). I get called. An ace hits the flop. I put in a monster raise. It gets called. Same thing after the turn. After the river, Jackass calls my all in and he's holding 99. He sees a huge bet and an ace hit the board, yet he pushes with TWO NINES even when he just has to know he's beaten.
No problem, Jackass reloads with a rebuy and on he goes. Then I overplay QTs because I need to get the hell off of the computer and two queens hit the board but a guy's set of twos gives him a boat. Elvis is gone and happy to be so.
I have two tickets left. This tourney just demonstrates how completely idiotic human beings can be, and I just can't take much more of it. This is the only rebuy tourney I have ever played. Are all of them like this? The first hour is just a nightmare in these things. Then play gets super tight and it takes forever for people to go down because everyone has at least 3000 chips after the add on.
Why not just have a "deep stack tournament?" For $5 you get 3000 or 5000 chips and play from there? I know other sites have such tourneys, and naturally Poker Room and its skins are not trailblazers in the industry, and they're really not even very good followers, but infinite rebuys for $2.25 is just enough to drive a boy nuts.
OK, my New Year's Resolution is no more bitching about how other people play poker. Hopefully this message gets it out of my system.
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The point of a rebuy is to build the pot and many people see the 1st hour as a time to build their stack. You don't notice the pot building at Shootout because it doesnt, they have a $1000 guarentee which is never reached.
Take the $3 rebuy at PokerStars. This tournament you can get in for $3 and there are 1600ish people involved (current prize pool $4800). By the time the rebuys and add-ons are over with the pool is well over $20,000 and the winner gets over $4,000. Many of the very best rebuy players move all in every single hand from the get go regardless of their cards because any 2 cards can win and the only thing they are interested in is building a big stack in the 1st hour of play.
In a rebuy the game doesn't even start until after 1st break.
