Hand against Chufty - interesting situation

[punter11235]

C'mon guys. Its PokerStars. REBUY trick.

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C'mon guys. Its PokerStars. REBUY trick.

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Never played on that site. Is this "trick" legal, or just some bug that PStars hasn't fixed, allowing for intimidation tactics to be exploited?

[BluffTHIS!]

The "trick" is that when you are allin, you can quickly rebuy for the max buyin which in the case where you win the pot in question, is added to your stack, artificially increasing it. I see this in no limit all the time, where some regular players upon the first time they get AA/KK/AK just open push and do the trick so that they can stack players who already have built up a stack.

While it might be considered a loophole, and even though I don't do it, there is nothing wrong with it IMO. And the trick can save you from missing a hand when you are allin and lose, since PS doesn't have the software first wait for you to rebuy like UB does.

On PS you can rebuy when you drop below the max buy-in even if you still have live chips in the pot. It's a relatively easy way to quickly get a 200 or 300 BB stack (depending on whether or not your bet gets called, etc.).

A 1200 BB stack like this is another matter. This is pot limit so you can't get 1000BB in the pot very easily, and you still have to drop well below 100BB before you can re-buy. I wouldn't be surprised if as much as $6000 of that stack comes from this kind of trick, but most of it must be legitimate winnings.