Saturday 50 rebuy Tourney at the Tropicana in AC

[Nixon]

Has anyone played in this, and have any comments?

[Paul2432]

I played the $40 rebuy last sunday. You'll probably get around 150 players and it does sell out. One thing to know is the blind escalation is brutal in this tournament.

From memory it was something like:

25/25
25/50
50/100
75/150 a25
150/300 a50
300/600 a75
500/1000 a100
1000/2000 a200
1500/3000 a300
3000/6000 a500
5000/10000 a (can't remember)

Paul

[highlife]

and there is alot of bad players.

[Nixon]

Does anyone know what the payout structure looks like? I can find nothing about that on thier website.

[UltimateDickory]

played in this tourney once a couple of months ago.... was talking to some guy who said he placed second in it the week before.... i got pocket 9's in the big blind when the blinds were 1000-2000 i think (i had around 7000-8000 chips) , the guy who had placed the week before is in middle position, also short stacked, he raises, i am the only caller..... flop comes 9 Q rag....I flop a set..he bets double the big blind...I raise him all-in, he calls... .. i flip my trip 9's over, he flips over Q-4 offsuit, turn, Q, River, 4. I'm sure there are some decent players in the tourney but seemed like everyone was rolling the dice at the table I was at.

[Vermicious Knid]

I played in it a few weeks ago. They had 166 players, which was pretty close to their max. The level of play was pretty weak. My guess was that close to half of the field was playing in their first live tournament. There is a group of maybe 30-40 regulars (just a guess) that probably play every week.

I was the only person at my starting table who even knew how a re-buy tournament worked. One guy tried to re-buy about an hour after the re-buy period was over. The play was mostly loose-passive with the occasional loose-aggressive player thrown in.

What really surprised me was how bad the play was later on in the tournament. At the final table, people were still limping out of position with mediocre hands when the big blind was 20-30% of their stack.

The blind schedule posted above is accurate from my recollection. It got really nasty by the end of the tournament. From 5k-10k (+500 antes) it went to 10k-20k (+1k antes), then 20k-40k (+2k antes) and finished at 30k-60k (+3k antes).

There were 166 initial buys, 180 re-buys and 120 add-ons. The total prize pool was around $23k. First got about $8k, 2nd - $4.7k, 3rd - $2.3k, 4th - $1.7k. Top 18 got paid with 15-18 getting $233.50.

[Nixon]

Thanks for the good info guys.