We all play them at least once to get the experience and they
often offer huge prize pools for small buy in’s but when
do we know when to ‘call it a wrap’ when playing
rebuy tournaments?
We have all been there, sat at a table full of players who appear to have just started learning to play, feeling confident that you can double if not triple up before the first break when a freak hand happens, your pocket aces been broken by that awful call to your ‘all in’ call with a pair of 4′s, only to see the river reveal another 4, turning their hand into a set.
After 5 seconds of cursing and slapping your computer your left with a choice… Do you rebuy back into the tournament to seek revenge or do you leave the table with your opponent feeling like a world beater?
There are a number of things that should be considered in the time that your given to rebuy or leave the table.
Is The Prize Pool Worth It?
Some tournament poker sites offer unlimited rebuys as long as they are bought before within the first hour.
Other tournaments give you the opportunity to rebuy into the tournament a limited amount of times, most commonly twice.
If you find that your rebuying into the tournament for a second time its advisable to reconsider, it shows that either the players sat around your table are getting the better of you or your luck just isn’t in.
Knowing when to walk away from the tournament is a major factor that a player should have otherwise they are going to find their bankroll hugelt decreased.
Are You Better Than The Other Players?
When you’ve been knocked out of the tournament, you have to think quick about the quality of the players that are at your table.
Are they poor players that got luck on one hand to eliminate you or have they had you under their thumb for the whole of the tournament?
If you find that you have been kept quiet by 2 or more players on the table, you have to be thinking that to invest your funds elsewhere would be a better option because all players will agree that the worst poker that they play follows been beaten in a hand that has significant meaning, like eliminating you from a tournament or reducing your stack to well under half.
If you feel that you have just fallen unlucky on the hand and you know that you can get the better of at least 70% of the players at the table, get yourself a refill on your chips and give yourself a 3-5 hand break period to cool down from the anger of the previous hand.
Do You Have Enough Bankroll To Rebuy?
This is the final factor that should be considered as this could be seen as the most important.
If you were to be knocked out of the tournament again, how would you bankroll cope?
Its not advisable to be placing your final amount of bankroll into a rebuy tournament that still features well over 500 players, as the likelyhood of meeting a player of either equal or higher ability than you is very high.
If you were to come up against a player like this, would you be able to still play other games or would you have to reload funds into your account?
If the answer to the question is the latter of the two its advised that you walk away from the tournament and use the funds to rebuild your bankroll.
You have to remember that the early stages of the tournaments are full of a vast amount of playing abilities and so you are likely to be placed onto a table with players who are going to call you regardless of the size of bet you make and their pot odds.
Our tip is that if you find yourself cursing the player for making a call that should not have been made, its time to walk away from the tournament as this is when a player is most likely to go on ’tilt’.