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Posted Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:21 am GMT by Idaho
Played in the local casino PL £10 ($20) rebuy tourney last night. You get a 1000 chips for your money and can rebuy anytime in the first 2 hours that your are less than 500. You can also add on at 11pm.
The action is fast and furious with plenty of action pre-flop and plenty after. Trying to limp is a chip drainer as there almost certainly will be a raise. People are playing loose however. They are happy to play, take a chance and rebuy. After the first 5 hands there were 4 rebuys 
Not much bluffing going on and calling and taking a chance seemed to be the usual tactic. Nice when I got pocket 66s and the flop came A66 :D
I went out however. I had 45s and limped. It was raised (and I should have laid it down - but people were pushing with poor cards... admitedly not this person however  ). The flop came AA2 - i put all my chips in. Not that many and he called me with a pair of Jacks. A poor/great call on his part. The 3 never showed. I had played 3 hours of cards for £11 so it was a pleasant evening out.
So how would you play this? How many rebuys? Would you add-on?
They play crazy dealer's choice cash games at this casino. Only £2 rent per hour on the seat but the bets can be in the thousands. Pot limit - as is the norm in the UK, and they play lots of weird variations of the game.
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Posted Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:47 am GMT by Muck
I play this format a lot in UK casinos (identical except the freeze out is normally after only 1 hour).
I always budget for 1 buy-in, 2 re-buys and 1 top-up. But if I can save any of that all the better.
I only top-up if the top-up is greater than 25% of my current stack.
Pre-freeze out people will play anything trying to double up, ignoring the investment to return odds because they know they can’t be knocked out. I just play tight and let others bring chips onto the table. But be ready for the gear change after the freeze out, standards will jump and bluffing becomes more viable.
Posted Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:16 am GMT by Idaho
Yeah I thought it's probably best to play as tight as a gnat's arse and only rebuy when you get a bad beat or get outplayed (as opposed to losing chasing cards).
It seems that more than normally it is a big card game and when you always have a pre-flop raiser and 2 or 3 runners for the flop the value of small pairs and suited connectors is very much diminished.
I went into the freeze out with 2000 chips - perhaps I should have bought the extra 1000. Then again perhaps I should have just folded my 45s while I was at it 
I've played this format twice now - once in Brighton and once in Torquay. Both times I have been knocked out right after the freezeout. I think I am just getting into the loose spirit of things when everyone else has tightened up.
Posted Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:50 am GMT by Idaho
Don't all dive in at once...
Posted Fri Apr 15, 2005 5:41 am GMT by Muck
Okay, additionally:
Don’t call a pre-flop raise with 45s, especially when it’s so large you’re then committed to going all-in before the end of the hand.
I find, when I’m short stacked, that it’s better to play the hands much more aggressively since you can’t really afford to just call.
Posted Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:34 am GMT by Idaho
That one I know! Big cards - only big cards....
Posted Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:37 am GMT by Idaho
Going to give this game another pop tonight. I promise I am going to play so tight that I'll even fold AA out of position
Posted Thu Apr 21, 2005 5:59 am GMT by Idaho
To anyone who still cares:
I played last night. My god did I get the coldest run of cards I've ever seen. In three hours 44 was the best hand Luckily the flop came k4k and there had been no pre-flop raise. I tripled up on someone with a K and another person with a different pocket pair 
I saw two showdowns in the whole night. That one, and the one that busted me out an hour and a half later. I got J4 and K4 5 times each. 92 off appeared 3 times. I got an A three times - A 10 (nothing on flop - folded to a raise), A6 early - folded, A2 late - called, nothing on flop.
Oh well. It was good practice.
Posted Wed May 04, 2005 7:35 am GMT by AAceman
| Idaho wrote: | | Going to give this game another pop tonight. I promise I am going to play so tight that I'll even fold AA out of position |
somebody please smack some sense into this fellow 
Posted Thu May 26, 2005 4:47 am GMT by Idaho
Played here again last night. Solid play, good cards - 4th place and £100 ($180). The 3 others played on for 15 minutes and then chopped it for £270 each. My second to last play wasn't the best - and that forced my last play - which was a blind steal from the button which the BB called with medium cards and won.
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