Why Re-Buys Are a Waste of Time
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William
Why Re-Buys Are a Waste of Time
If you absolutely love re-buy tournaments, just stop reading this now. I'm not going to say anything positive about them. All you'll get from this is a reason to yell at the screen, so in an attempt to save yourself some embarrassment and headache medicine, just move onto another article.
Alright, for those of you that are left, let's talk about why re-buys suck. For one, if you don't know what a re-buy is, it's a tournament that allows you to buy back in after you've been knocked out, so you can keep coming back up until a certain level of the blinds. You also get the chance to buy chips from the start to double your stack, or to buy chips when you are below a certain number. This might seem like a huge blessing in the poker world, but it's not. It's a trap.
You see, when you go into a re-buy, you already have the idea in your head that you can come back if you lose. That means that you already have no drive to play well. No one else does on the table either. What does that convert to? A table full of donkeys going all in to make some quick chips. No one, and I do mean no one, plays well early on in a re-buy. They have no reason to. For the first thirty minutes of play or more, you just sit in a really cruddy poker tournament.
Beyond this false sense of security, re-buys are lame because they make you waste your money very quickly. You might pay $30 to go into a tournament, but then you end up spending $100 more in the process. If the top prize is $1000, then that's fine, but if you walk out with the $90 that the bottom paid place takes home, you've actually lost money. That's if you make it to paid placing at all. You might shell out $130 just to get knocked out right after the re-buy session is over. Can you see where this is going?
In short, if you have two working cells in your brain, use them to avoid re-buys. Stick to the stuff that won't cost you a fortune and will allow you to play with people who actually give a damn about the game. If you feel like you must play one the a review of may help you out.
If you absolutely love re-buy tournaments, just stop reading this now. I'm not going to say anything positive about them. All you'll get from this is a reason to yell at the screen, so in an attempt to save yourself some embarrassment and headache medicine, just move onto another article.
Alright, for those of you that are left, let's talk about why re-buys suck. For one, if you don't know what a re-buy is, it's a tournament that allows you to buy back in after you've been knocked out, so you can keep coming back up until a certain level of the blinds. You also get the chance to buy chips from the start to double your stack, or to buy chips when you are below a certain number. This might seem like a huge blessing in the poker world, but it's not. It's a trap.
You see, when you go into a re-buy, you already have the idea in your head that you can come back if you lose. That means that you already have no drive to play well. No one else does on the table either. What does that convert to? A table full of donkeys going all in to make some quick chips. No one, and I do mean no one, plays well early on in a re-buy. They have no reason to. For the first thirty minutes of play or more, you just sit in a really cruddy poker tournament.
Beyond this false sense of security, re-buys are lame because they make you waste your money very quickly. You might pay $30 to go into a tournament, but then you end up spending $100 more in the process. If the top prize is $1000, then that's fine, but if you walk out with the $90 that the bottom paid place takes home, you've actually lost money. That's if you make it to paid placing at all. You might shell out $130 just to get knocked out right after the re-buy session is over. Can you see where this is going?
In short, if you have two working cells in your brain, use them to avoid re-buys. Stick to the stuff that won't cost you a fortune and will allow you to play with people who actually give a damn about the game. If you feel like you must play one the a review of may help you out.
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