[BrettButter]

So, I was railing my friend on P*. He's pretty loose, but gets some good tournament cashes every once and a while. Goes on long, bad streaks but always pulls a good finish out of his butt on occasion. He decided to try and win a spot in the Sunday Million in a $5+R satellite. He got up to 12k in chips very early on, 5k over the person in 2nd place. Then, this happened.

PokerStars Game #10043014856: Tournament #50508168, $5+$0 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2007/05/22 - 00:49:00 (ET)
Table '50508168 8' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Jack Dawson (2670 in chips)
Seat 2: TMMAJO (2490 in chips)
Seat 3: locust1000 (6680 in chips)
Seat 4: barbaranegra (1870 in chips)
Seat 6: jimzerocool (2105 in chips)
Seat 7: ESTURGEON 64 (3145 in chips)
Seat 8: Pqqp1 (11840 in chips)
Seat 9: Psychout (2200 in chips)
ESTURGEON 64: posts small blind 10
Pqqp1: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Psychout: folds
Jack Dawson: raises 20 to 40
TMMAJO: calls 40
locust1000: folds
barbaranegra: raises 120 to 160
jimzerocool: folds
ESTURGEON 64: raises 2985 to 3145 and is all-in
Pqqp1: calls 3125
Jack Dawson: calls 2630 and is all-in
TMMAJO: calls 2450 and is all-in
barbaranegra: folds
*** FLOP *** [Kd Ts 8d]
Pqqp1 said, "Hold"
Pqqp1 said, "Hold"
*** TURN *** [Kd Ts 8d] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [Kd Ts 8d Jh] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ESTURGEON 64: shows [Ah Ac] (a pair of Aces)
Pqqp1: shows [8s 8h] (three of a kind, Eights)
Pqqp1 collected 950 from side pot-2
Jack Dawson: shows [Th Jd] (two pair, Jacks and Tens)
Pqqp1 collected 540 from side pot-1
TMMAJO: shows [Qh Qd] (a pair of Queens)
Pqqp1 collected 10120 from main pot
ESTURGEON 64 has timed out
TMMAJO has timed out while disconnected
Jack Dawson re-buys and receives 1500 chips for $5.00
TMMAJO is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 11610 Main pot 10120. Side pot-1 540. Side pot-2 950. | Rake 0
Board [Kd Ts 8d Jh 3c]
Seat 1: Jack Dawson showed [Th Jd] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Tens
Seat 2: TMMAJO showed [Qh Qd] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 3: locust1000 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: barbaranegra folded before Flop
Seat 6: jimzerocool (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: ESTURGEON 64 (small blind) showed [Ah Ac] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 8: Pqqp1 (big blind) showed [8s 8h] and won (11610) with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 9: Psychout folded before Flop (didn't bet)



Crazy. So crazy.

[xtwalker]

seems pretty common for a rebuy tourney.

I used to love playing those on party... damn WA internet gambling laws!

[pmaison]

Hi,

i think this hand is really standard. In freeze out the JT and the 88 might fold and you just see the AA against QQ, but in the rebuy time i think its normal. thats why i dont like the rebuy-tourneys.....

greet

[jdunford]

I only played one re-buy tourney (at Party) accidentally - meant to pick a freeze-out - and saw a guy with 23o call a preflop all-in by AA and hit 2s-full-of-3s. That was about the worst I've ever seen... but 4 players at my table were all-in every hand during the rebuy period until each of them had quintupled up. One guy must've bought in for $200 total into a $5+$0.50 tournament... needed to make the final table just to break even... but he had a pretty substantial lead when the re-buy period ended.

[suicidalmaniac]

this kind of play is pretty common for rebuy and freeroll tourneys. I generally avoid rebuy tourneys simply because they are money pits. that is why they are so common online... because they make the poker sites the most money.

[pmaison]

Originally Posted by suicidalmaniac

.. because they make the poker sites the most money.

But there is no fee for the Rebuy and Add-ons....

[vikefan24]

Originally Posted by jdunford

I only played one re-buy tourney (at Party) accidentally - meant to pick a freeze-out - and saw a guy with 23o call a preflop all-in by AA and hit 2s-full-of-3s. That was about the worst I've ever seen... but 4 players at my table were all-in every hand during the rebuy period until each of them had quintupled up. One guy must've bought in for $200 total into a $5+$0.50 tournament... needed to make the final table just to break even... but he had a pretty substantial lead when the re-buy period ended.

On Daniel Negreanu's blog he mentioned that he rebought 40+ times in the 2006 wsop $1,000 rebuy event..

[jdunford]

Originally Posted by vikefan24

On Daniel Negreanu's blog he mentioned that he rebought 40+ times in the 2006 wsop $1,000 rebuy event..

... and won the tournament, taking home a nice prize of $39,999.99.

[xtwalker]

I would play an occasional rebuy tourney and wait till I had a pretty good hand to call any of the all in machines.... I would usually play the $2 rebuys and would be around average stack at the break... after the break the game got easy because so many people couldn't switch to good poker and would knock out so fast.

My best finish was 5th out of 1300 players. Into the game for $6 and got $787 out of it.

[trutan]

The real quetion is did he parlay that luck into a seat for the Sunday Million?