Poker Stars rebuy glitch - just like Party

[nolanfan34]

Maybe this was well known already, but I hadn't noticed it before. Check out the all-in guy making a rebuy DURING the hand. WTF.

PokerStars Game #2000682944: Tournament #9355109, Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2005/06/29 - 21:57:56 (ET)
Table '9355109 27' Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Clockman77 (1910 in chips)
Seat 2: Chip6423 (5625 in chips)
Seat 4: sqs1 (1955 in chips)
Seat 5: theephantom (1000 in chips)
Seat 6: Skypilot (6175 in chips)
Seat 7: nolanfan34 (2000 in chips)
Seat 8: KyleMarx (1325 in chips)
Seat 9: jjmaddipper (3705 in chips)
Chip6423: posts small blind 100
sqs1: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to nolanfan34 [6c 3c]
theephantom: calls 200
Skypilot: folds
nolanfan34: folds
KyleMarx: calls 200
jjmaddipper: folds
Clockman77: calls 200
Chip6423: calls 100
sqs1: checks
*** FLOP *** [2c Kh 3s]
Chip6423: checks
sqs1: checks
theephantom: checks
KyleMarx: checks
Clockman77: bets 600
Chip6423: folds
sqs1: folds
theephantom: calls 600
KyleMarx: folds
*** TURN *** [2c Kh 3s] [Ad]
theephantom: bets 200 and is all-in
Clockman77: calls 200
*** RIVER *** [2c Kh 3s Ad] [5c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
theephantom: shows [Qc 4c] (a straight, Ace to Five)
Clockman77: shows [Jh Ks] (a pair of Kings)
theephantom re-buys and receives 1000 chips for $2.00
theephantom collected 2600 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2600 | Rake 0
Board [2c Kh 3s Ad 5c]
Seat 1: Clockman77 (button) showed [Jh Ks] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 2: Chip6423 (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 4: sqs1 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: theephantom showed [Qc 4c] and won (2600) with a straight, Ace to Five
Seat 6: Skypilot folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: nolanfan34 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: KyleMarx folded on the Flop
Seat 9: jjmaddipper folded before Flop (didn't bet)

[TheTimeIsUp]

If you start the hand with 1500 or under, then you are allowed to rebuy any time during the hand. 1000 or under if the starting chip count was 1000.

[nolanfan34]

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If you start the hand with 1500 or under, then you are allowed to rebuy any time during the hand. 1000 or under if the starting chip count was 1000.

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So what you're saying is, I'm an idiot? Fair enough, that matches up with how I've been playing lately. I didn't notice his starting total, I only looked at the final pot size. /images/graemlins/blush.gif /images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[bugstud]

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If you start the hand with 1500 or under, then you are allowed to rebuy any time during the hand. 1000 or under if the starting chip count was 1000.

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So what you're saying is, I'm an idiot? Fair enough, that matches up with how I've been playing lately. I didn't notice his starting total, I only looked at the final pot size. /images/graemlins/blush.gif /images/graemlins/crazy.gif

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man, you had me going there for a second.

[nolanfan34]

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If you start the hand with 1500 or under, then you are allowed to rebuy any time during the hand. 1000 or under if the starting chip count was 1000.

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So what you're saying is, I'm an idiot? Fair enough, that matches up with how I've been playing lately. I didn't notice his starting total, I only looked at the final pot size. /images/graemlins/blush.gif /images/graemlins/crazy.gif

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man, you had me going there for a second.

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Part of me still thinks it's a bit of a loophole though. Say you're playing in one of the $100 rebuys. Toward the end of the first hour, and your stack is right at the rebuy level. With the ability to wait to rebuy, you can wait until your stack is all-in, to see if you're a huge favorite, before committing more money for the rebuy.

Kind of silly, but I think that if your hand is live, they shouldn't allow you to be able to shoot that angle. At my table, the guy was proud of how he added the extra t1000 when I asked him about it.

[PukaPlaya]

I do this all the time actually. If it looks like I am going to lose I wait and do the auto 2 rebuys after the hand. I see no problem as it is a rebuy after all. Or don't you want more money in the prize pool?

[dtbog]

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Maybe this was well known already, but I hadn't noticed it before. Check out the all-in guy making a rebuy DURING the hand. WTF.

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Worse is that you can do this at CASH GAMES on Stars... unless they fixed that?

(Look at Hallingol on the 10/20 NL tables.. he usually has a 10K+ stack, and it's not because he's really good at flopping sets..)

-dB