Poker Forum by Poker is Rigged

I've been playing rebuys for a few months now. Mainly the $3 and $8 rebuys on pokerstars.

I tend to do ok and get past the break, but my stack is never big enough. It just seems to be entirely dependant on luck. If you are sat a loose table then you'll get paid on monster hands where you can just shove preflop, but if you're sat on a tight table, you will be at a huge disadvantage compared to others.

Should i limit to how much i rebuy and ALWAYS addon at the break?

During the rebuy period there are a few simple rules you should always follow, these rules will help you play a plus EV(expected value) game during this period.
1) You should have enough buy ins to comfortable rebuy even after the worst run of cards you can imagin. I know a few pros who have re bought upto 50 times in 10 dollar rebuys!

2) You should always double rebuy in WITHOUT fail , you talk about wanting to generate a big stack well you wont unless you have the max ammount of chips you can start with which is 3k on most clients.

The rebuy strategy: Well if your playing a rebuy with 20 dollar or less entry you should play a all in or fold strategy.
Players at this level generally give you the call equity for you to push with 88 or above. Now this wont be the case on all tables but on most, push with 88+ AQ+ somtimes AJ if callers are especially loose but i rarely find a table im not happy pushing with 88+. 77 and 66 will work on slightly looser tables but you must observe your table to know this.

Now you can use this strategy until you get to about 13-15kish and your against similar stacks. once you get to about 15k in the rebuy period you can stop pushing preflop against the larger stacks but continue against the smaller stacks.

This strategy is used by alot of higher limit pros in small limit tournaments and its quite easy.
Now if your getting to the end of a rebuy period(10mins left) start pushing much looser as you need to build your stack before you can stop rebuying.

Also ALWAYS ADD ON this is ALWAYS +EV

hope that helped

-James

I agree with killa here, that is a good strategy to keep a very easy one to adapt to. you will be surprised how many times you get called by 23

Thanks guys. I'll go try it out and let you know how successful i am!!

Always have to double rebuy before the first hand even starts. I've noticed on pokerstars about 50% of people do this so you're looking at winning big pots from shoves all in.

On betfred usually there are no other players that double rebuy, but it's good to have the double rebuy waiting to double up when the other stacks start to build.

Don't play rebuys unless you're willing to pay at least 5 buyins to it.

I do find that push folding on Betfred almost always pays off providing no bad beat. But on stars, the tables tend to be far tighter and you're usually just throwing your premium into away for just 30 chips at early levels. Definately depends on your table as to whether this strategy works or not.

Definately worth shoving a lot of hands jst before the break and doubling up to addon. Could land you on 8k at the break which isn't too bad.

I went in the $3 rebuy last night on pokerstars. (My friend managed to take it down for $6,000!!). But i also managed to cash using this strategy. I double rebought once at the start and was lucky enough for my AK against AQ to hold up (AQ shoved preflop) and ended up making the break with about 12k and going on to place ITM.

I will do more and keep you guys posted.

ye obviously for calling a all in you need a better hand than you would be pushing with (AK being one of them) this is standard gap theory.

What do you mean by gap theory?

basicaly gap theory is addressed in harrington on holdem (which i definitly recommend) but the basic is that you need much less to raise and more to call a raise (this is in terms of hands strength). This is because when you make a raise you have folding equity of the table (i.e if the whole table folds round u get the blinds and the limps) but if you call a raise you have no fold equity.

you follow?

-James