Goddamn rebuy tournaments….
Originally published at shanefitzsimmons.com. You can comment here or there.
I really need to pay more attention before joining tournaments online. I went into a $2 + $0.25 tournament with infinite rebuys for the first hour. Fucking sucked. Why? Because at least half the people at my table busted out and re-bought in probably half a dozen times or more during the first hour. For the last twenty minutes of the first hour I was in 1st place out of 117 people. Then during the break, everyone added onto their stack, giving themselves an extra 2,000 for $2. I didn’t bother, maybe I should’ve.
I went from 2nd place (I dropped from first to second in the last hand of the hour, and was only under first by 50) to 4th or 5th place because everyone else was adding on.
I slowly watched myself get lower and lower down the list, jumped up to 3rd place, dropped down to 7th, then 10th, and then very dramatically down to about 32nd when my pair of pocket tens lost to another player’s pair of pocket queens. I really hate people who bitch about online poker being rigged, but seriously I see some pretty fishy shit. I’ve seen pocket Kings lose so many times at Full Tilt it’s not even funny (or probable). If you ever get pocket pairs there’s a good chance that someone else ahead of you will have higher pocket pairs. When I say good chance, I mean it feels like an improbably high chance.
In B&M games I very, very rarely see one set of pocket pairs get beat out by another pocket pair, especially when both pairs are 10 or higher. But at Full Tilt I can’t go a single tournament without seeing it happen at least 5 times, and probably more than that. Invariably, it seems to always happen to me at least once.
I mean really, pocket 10’s getting beat by pocket Queens? Really? If I’ve done my math right, the probability of that situation occurring is somewhere around 0.15%.
‘Course, I’m probably just bitter at losing out on a $220 prize.