I just got back from Vegas and I thought I would post this hand that happened during the first level of a $20 No-Limit Hold'em Tournament with unlimited rebuys for $10. You start with $300 and are allowed to do your first buy-in for $10 for another $300. Three players already had done the first rebuy, so I do it while encouraging others to do it.


Anyway, here's one of the first hands I played. I'm on the button with 7hTh and limp in with seven other players. The flop is 5h-8c-9c giving me a straight and backdoor flush draw. Small blind moves in for approximately $600, and to my surprise four other players move in before me, three of them have $600 and one has $300. There's $2700 in the pot, so I call with $600 getting 4.5-to-1 odds.


My primary reason to play this hand is to get a chip lead early, so when the blinds go up after the rebuys are finished I would have the big stack advantage.


All comments welcome.


Good Luck


Mark