NL Re-Buy Tourny Tips Please...

st0neC0ldNutzst0neC0ldNutz
in Brick & Mortar Casino Talk
Hello,

I have played twice in my life (and might play again tonight) a NL tourney that is structured as follows.

1. Buy in for $22 and get $500 in chips
2. You can re-buy $500 chips for $10 as long as you are under $501 in chips any time for the first 30 mins.
3. The rounds are 15 min each (the first two rounds are 25-25 and 25-50 blinds)

Now what I find happens to me is I will go broke at least once or twice in the first 30 mins....and will rebuy towards the end.
Basically I will have $500 in chips when the blinds hit 50-100 which does not leave me much time to get any good cards and I end up busting out.

How do you guys approach these games? Should I gamble early trying to double up...? or play like a rock and when I get a good hand push all in.

I feel like not a lot of poker action happens at these. It is just people either folding after the deal or pushing all in and there is a race between two people and you have to get lucky to move on....

any hints, thoughts or tips would be appreciated.

thanks,

:canada:

Comments

  • PiggaPigga
    im assuming this is some sort of a turbo tournament being that you only start with 500 chips, and blinds start at 25-25 and go up every 15 minutes.....the blinds seem steep or go up to fast imo or u need more starting chips.....b/c unless u rebuy right away, your in a sense, shortstacked, at least i would feel so..... by the time the rebuys are over, the blinds are 50-100 and if u have doubled up by this point, u are shortstacked (probably less than 10x BB (1000) ......but thats just my 2 cents...

    if rebuys are only $10, i would wait for a decent hand, AK-AQ-AJ, mid-high pp and push pf and hope to double/triple up......otherwise rebuy if u miss, its only $10....
  • ScottyZScottyZ
    Personally, I wouldn't enter this tournament due to the steep blind structure.

    But assuming I did enter, I need to build up a lot of chips early.

    If the tournament is pre-flop passive:

    1. Rebuy immediately, and whenever possible, including a double rebuy if I go broke.

    2. During the rebuy period, I limp in with any two cards on any hand when I feel there is unlikely to be a raise. This includes AA and 83o. Of course, I will always limp in with any hand that I'm willing to move all-in with pre-flop (which is a *lot* of hands).

    3. I slow down quite a bit if I move up to ~3,000 chips, and shut down this strategy completely and revert to normal early tournament play if I get to ~5,000 chips.

    Not exactly the tight Scotty we're used to is it? :cool:

    If the tournament is pre-flop typical:

    1. I barf. Shouldn't have entered.

    2. I play typical but am not overly averse to busting out of course, and take rebuys at every opportunity.

    If the tournament is pre-flop crazy:

    1. Sit back and wait an opportunity to catch a crazy who makes a big bet with a random hand when my own hand beats a random hand. (This probably isn't as hard as it sounds.) Move all-in myself with premium hands. Rebuy at every opportunity.

    ScottyZ
  • st0neC0ldNutzst0neC0ldNutz
    What are your definitions of pre flop passive and pre flop typical....what is typical?

    It is starting to sound like this may not be the best way for me to learn NL Hold Em since I am almost always going to be short stacked...

    maybe for the same amount of money I should play online MTT's instead?

    Usually I will spend $42-52 on this fast paced tournament and Im lucky to last 1hr....but I want real casino experience for cheap since Im going to vegas for vacation soon and i don't want to be totally nervous when i do sit down.

    thanks for the tips so far.

    :canada:
  • ScottyZScottyZ
    Pre-flop passive would mean that there is not much pre-flop raising... say less than 20% or so of hands are raised pre-flop.

    Typical would be when you're facing a pre-flop raise of a standard size (something like 2-4 times the big blind) fairly often, say 40%-50% of the time, or maybe more.

    Pre-flop crazy would be people people making (pre-flop) bets much higher than the standard size with weak holdings.

    ScottyZ
  • st0neC0ldNutzst0neC0ldNutz
    So after reading your advice I decided that I don't find it that fun to play this structure of nl tourney. There is not really a chance to play too many hands and I find it too stressful.
    I did not go play it last night, instead I played a 10 man Sng at UB and came in 2nd.
    Its always nice to know that I won $3 instead of losing $50 :)

    cheers :canada:
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