Empty Wallet
In the past I found that the easiest way to donate funds to ‘poker players who like to take money from me charity’, is to play poker tournaments in which there is a rebuy element. I cannot seem to win or get very far in these types of poker tournaments.
First of all I hate to spend more money playing tournament while your ration of big blinds to stack gets lower and lower.
Secondly, if you have pulled a bluff move on a opponent, knocking him out, and then he rebuys and is sitting on your table, you know you have a determined enemy who wants to get you and is prepared to take you down for being so cheeky.
Thirdly, rebuy’s is like brag. It gives players with lower skills the chance to literally ‘buy’ the tournament by constantly re-buying until they hit that nice winning streak that all tournament players need. Yes it increases the prize fund, but as I said I never seem to win these types of tournaments.
Not winning rebuys seemed to be my naturally state of play until recently I have won two rebuy tournaments on the bounce. Winning tournaments back to back is pretty cool, but, to win in a format you hate made me happy if a little worried.
As I have said before I regard rebuy’s are a chance for bad players to ‘buy’ a tournament by literally continuing to ‘buy’ the game. So it suits poor players with deep pockets. Now with me winning rebuy’s (in one case I brought in 4 times), this could mean that I am getting the hang of the format, or, it could mean that I am becoming a poor player! Somehow I think the second scenario is more closely matched to the truth, which is very worrying indeed.