Date: 05/18/1998
From: Jim Geary
Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker
Subject: Re: Seeking Tournament Advice
On 18 May 1998, Tim274 wrote: > $10 buy-in for T200 > > Unlimited $15 re-buys for T400, once one drops below T200. > > The game is Hold Em, starting at 10-20, and doubling every 15 minutes. After 1 > hour, there is a break, with a $15 add-on for T1000, or $30 for T2000, and no > further rebuys. > > It seems to me that the best course is only to play the very strongest hands > until the break, perhaps taking a rebuy, and then evaluating the situation. That is correct. Otherwise you're paying too much for your chips. By holding out til the break, you minimize your real$/T$ ratio. The problem is you gotta weather thru four rounds, one being 80-160 on T200. If you played zero hands, the blinds would cost you T225, assuming one lap every 15 minutes. Therefor, you gotta take at least one stand. If you don't win it tho, you should probably take yet another to try and get over the hump to make it to the one-hour mark. After losing your first pot, there's not much difference between T120 and T40 if you're going in to rock mode for an hour. In a tournament like this, I'd try to minimize my investment and benefit from the overlay provided by all the multiple-rebuyers. If there were a large # of rebuys before the break, I'd spend the money to try and make it myself, if things went south early, but not til I had gone all in and lost. Otherwise, I'd just wait til next week. The goal is to play against everyone else's dead money, not be the dead money yourself.
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