The answer is yes.

You need to adapt your style to their styles. PLay a little tighter than the rest of the table, be ready to get all your money in with good hands. If you ever say "I made this great laydown during the rebuy period" Give up and go sell Avon. You just gotta pick a spot to pick off each player. Know who's doing what and adapt. You get these nutcases pujshing with substandard hands, and then you get the rocks who really tighten up. Just make sure who know whos who.

rebuy at the start so you have 2x the chips,
push and re-raise with racing hands and hope you double.

once you have reached a nice stack like original1500+rebuy1500+1,000pot, now you should settle down, and play normal. then add on.

you should have an average stack after the add on.
now just play regular. its not too crazy. i got 2 spots off the final table yesterday following this strat. paid like shit though, waste of 3 hours.


also, in the beginning, if you bust, rebuy.

Not rebuying at any point is -EV. You should rebuy immediately upon starting, and at any time you fall below the minimum allowed. Other players at your table will be doing the same, and when you hit some mammoth hand, with only 1k in chips, vs a guy with 2k in chips, you are now forced to double up again (which is the whole point of MTT's, to get your 10-15 double ups). Look at any NL cash game, who's the happiest at the table? The biggest stack. Same goes for a regular MTT. You need chips to make chips.

Money in MTT's comes from making a top 10 finish, not from just surviving. You need a large stack to do this. You can't get a large stack, on a regular basis, from making great laydowns, or playing the same starting hands as in the post-rebuy period. You CANNOT play it just like another tourney, the other players have made Significant changes to their game, you need to likewise adjust. You can see a lot more flops cheaply (if possible), you will therefore flop more good hands, and get more from them. Because its the rebuy period, others are very willing to gamble just because its the rebuy period, exploit that. Your big hands PF will get more calls from others with big raises. Your Good post-flop hands will get the same. Be greedy and make exploitive value bets here. So what if you lose a few people the first time, the next time they'll be more curious and you'll get more money.

Limiting your number of buy-ins is also -EV. Either come to play fully or go home. Theres no reason to set stop losses. Yes, I set a 5x budget for bankroll purposes. I expect to pay a total of 5 buy-ins for a tourny, But I have paid 12-15 on a couple of occasions. Neagreanu paid 29 buy-ins in a WSOP NLHE event a few years ago, he won the thing, but that's Danny for you. "What you plan and what takes place ain't ever been similar" - Jane.

Originally Posted by G_The_Jester

I cant agree with the last post that just because it is a rebuy you play worse to win more.

Give me 1,000 in chips vs a player who can't play with 2,000 chips and i fancy my chances every time.

Your statement is expecting everyone who can play to rebuy ... surely the people who are rebuying more often than not are not playing well ... so if you can take their chips once by playing well why not take them again for each of their rebuys.

What you are trying to say is that just because you can buy in many times you are more likely to win ... thats rubbish.

Your rebuy will never take you to more than twice the amount of your starting chips ...

This means that the other players have taken your starting chips and added them to their stacks ... as the comp goes on you get further behind as every rebuy gets added to the opponents stacks .. if you are making all ins all over the place then these chips are sitting with relatively few players.

Where is this positive.

*yawn* To think that to alter your gameplay is to play worse is, well, just stupid.

And you are turning my statements into broad generalizations. Try reading my posts before commenting. I said you need to react to EACH PLAYERS' different style of play. How is that playing worse?

And about rebuying and what not. Do some EV math, or you can let Sklansky or Suzuziki do it for you, they both covered it in their Tournament books (NOT in HoH). Yes there are some scenarios, and I can think of a few, that the need to rebuy is not as great as others. But in your standard Online Rebuy tournament, The amount of chips in play quickly neccesitates the need to rebuy.

MTT longterm ROI comes from the rare big cash, not the frequent refunding ITM's. To cash big you need to double up a dozen times or so, so passing on any chance to do so (buy either buying a stack or having bought a stack to doulble up with) is just plain stupid.

And the add-on at the end, We have had discussions before on this, and to sum it up, they math we did showed unless you have like 95% (some insanely high number) of the chips in play, Adding-On is +EV.