Stars 25K Guarenteed Rebuy Strategy?

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The max number of buyins is really a hard thing to ask, because that's going to depend on the number of times you go broke and have to rebuy. If you are asking how loose you should play, that's a whole different topic. I dont think that $70 on rebuys is too much. It is more than the average though.

That's pretty much where I was going with my question. I'm more than willing to go broke and rebuy to build my stack early on. The first two levels I love my suited aces and suited connectors(and playing these a lot early on, almost guarentee action if I get aces or kings early on). I always rebuy immediately(I assume this is the right thing to do without question?) and its pretty easy to pick out the guys willing to take a ton of chances and the guys who will rebuy 10-15 times, who will call all-ins with serious subpar hands, etc, and to take shots at them when the right situation arises... but once I've done this a couple of times and didn't get lucky, I always wonder if I should close it up and try again later or keep pushing. Spending $50 is never an issue and I've spent $70 before at tables that had lots of good opportunities in that first hour, but I've never spent any more than that. Its more of a comfort level thing as opposed to anything else though, hence the question on EV based on how much you spend in the first hour.


Now, lets talk about actual play strategy? Because this is COMPLETELY different than a regular tournament. =)

I'm all for this kind of a discussion too. But I have a question first... to me, the first hour is a completely different tournament. After that it's a deep stack event that pays a good amount of places but you definitely need to be shooting for final tables(like any MTT I suppose) to really make it worth the effort. Is that what you mean here or do you have a view on the rest of the tourney after that first hour as different than a normal tourney as well?

For play strategy... in that first hour, do you have a specific chip count you are shooting for? If I rebuy once and double up once and then add-on, I have 8K chips, that makes me a solidly deep stack for the next hour if I can make some gains. I'm still willing to put my chips at risk if that double up happens very early, but, if it happens in the last half hour of the rebuy period I'm not going to take as many chances anymore. I see some players who won't slow down at all until they're over 12-15K in chips. There are always a small number of players who have over 20-25K at the break but without quadrupling up with aces it seems like you 'd have to play extrodinarily recklessly to have a shot to be at that level after the rebuy period...

It seems like at a general, high level, all you have to do in that first hour is pay attention, play straight up ABC poker post-flop for the most part(dear lord don't bluff, etc). find the players who are willing to rebuy an unlimited number of times and find what their raising and calling standards are(there is almost always one player at my table I'm willing to put all in with top pair at any time on the flop in the first hour while I'm trying to build up my stack, for example). Be more careful around those that are playign tight themselves...

If it hasn't been done, or done recently, i'd love to see a good discussion on strategy in this specific rebuy tourney come out of this.