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WSOP play-in tourney question

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I'm a frequent cash player, who only once in a blue moon plays tourney poker.

My question is about rebuys and add-ons. I'm looking at a tourney early next week at Horseshoe casino in Shreveport Bossier and it lists a lot of things I'm not 100% sure about.

The buy-in is like 140 and that gets you 800 chips. For a 200 buy-in you get more than twice as much so I'm clearly doing that. There are "add-ons" for some amount (I can't remember but to get the advantage I'm sure I'll do that), and rebuys.

So, to the questions, finally... ;-)

How many add-ons is one typically allowed to purchase? What's to keep me from throwing in $1,000 and playing big stack poker from the first hand?

Also, how long can you usually rebuy? What if someone busts out after the third blind raise? Can they still rebuy and just play as a short stack? Hell, what's to keep them from doing an add-on at that time too and just buying their way to the leaderboard?

Basically as a cash player I am familiar with plain old one-buy, no-add tournaments because I've done a few of those, but all this other crap is foreign to me. If anyone can help I'd surely appreciate it.

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  1. Smeagol8

    There is really no standard for rebuys and add ons, each tournament decides what they want to do, so you will have ask them. That being said, what I usually see is unlimited rebuys, until the end of the first break, (3-4 blind levels) and one add on, at the break also. Which means, yeah, you can almost buy your way to the leaderboard, except few people go out before the add on deadline, and everyone adds on, so you will still be shorter than average. And as for your "spend a $1000 and play big stack poker from the first" : Even IF they let you buy multiple add ons like that, you have to understand what your playing for, unless the tournament has hundreds of players, first place will be about 10-20 times your buy in. Meaning your 140$ buyin tournament will pay 1400$ to 2800$ for first place, given at least 20-30 players. Spending 1000$ for a chance to win 1400$ doesn't sound like a good plan.

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