supper add ons?

[pieman]

played at pokernitez on Friday in wokingham in their £10 rebuy and if you take their double add on you can have a super addon making it 7000 chips for £35 makes the first 2 levels a joke

its all to build the prize pool as they advertise a £1000 first prize

has anyone come across this before

[Longy]

When i went to Cork about this time last year i played a double chance freezeout (though it actually was more like a 1 rebuy) at the Macau club and your 2nd portion of chips was 3500 compared to the original 2500 chips, which was erm very Irish.

Great little casino they have there btw very poker orientated.

[tikay]

This is standard (oh, that damn word...) in Mainland Europe.

[Longines]

Hi Pieman,

I was there on Friday - wish I'd known there were other blonder there. I chopped that tournament when it reached HU - 160,000 chips each and the blinds were 8000-16000. To be able to guarantee a £1000 first prize in a £10 rebuy with only 44 runners, they are going to have to do stuff like offer double rebuys during the rebuy period as well as the double and super add ons at the end.

Prize pool was about £2500 from memory.

As an infrequent visitor to the area, I can thoroughly recommend Pokernitez. Friendly staff & customers and a nice location makes for an excellent poker experience.

[matt674]

why did i open this thread expecting it to be somebody who uses an alias of "pieman" telling Colch Kev what extra culinary delights he could be feasting upon on top of his bedtime meal?

When playing a super satellite at the Atlantis in Jan 05 for the WPT event won by John Gale they had something similar - it was a $200 rebuy and at the end you could take either an add on for $200 or double add-on for $400. Personally i wasn't too keen on this as it meant those with deep pockets stood to gain more of an advantage and had hoped that they wouldn't introduce it into tournaments over here.

[matt674]

played at pokernitez on Friday in wokingham in their £10 rebuy and if you take their double add on you can have a super addon making it 7000 chips for £35 makes the first 2 levels a joke

Why dont they just call it a £50 freezeout and give everyone 10000 chips? 

[Longines]

Why dont they just call it a £50 freezeout and give everyone 10000 chips? 

Because that would have saved me £75 in rebuys 

Seriously, I heard Alan who runs it say that they can't get enough runners to enter a £40 freezeout - but put on a £10 rebuy and it appears to make £2000+ easy.

[thetank]

I don't like that add-on, but if the game is juicy, I'd still play.

[danafish]

I thought a supper add-on meant chips, or dessert.

[Royal Flush]

Makes it easier to steal from the pot aswell as there is no way of knowing the true amount of rebuys.

[RichEO]

Makes it easier to steal from the pot aswell as there is no way of knowing the true amount of rebuys.

Same as any rebuy tournament. Depends if they keep records of the rebuys, there is a way of knowing though .

[matt674]

Makes it easier to steal from the pot aswell as there is no way of knowing the true amount of rebuys.

Same as any rebuy tournament. Depends if they keep records of the rebuys, there is a way of knowing though .

I disagree, if in a normal rebuy tournament everyone gets 1000 chips for a £10 buy in or add-on and when the final table starts and there is a chip count - if the total chip count at the final table is 456,000 then you know that there were 456 buy ins and that the prize pool should be £4560.00

If you get a different value of chips for super-add ons then you cannot work it out from the chip count at the start of the final table as you dont know whether the 1000 chips came from a standard £10 buy in or as part of a 7000 chips for £35 super add on.

[RichEO]

Good point. As long as they colour up correctly 

[matt674]

Good point. As long as they colour up correctly 

Lol, true! Though to be honest i've been brought up under the Tournament Directoring of Mr. Yogi-Bear himself so everything was always done spot on as quickly and efficiently as possible unlike our friends across the pond!

[Royal Flush]

Makes it easier to steal from the pot aswell as there is no way of knowing the true amount of rebuys.

Same as any rebuy tournament. Depends if they keep records of the rebuys, there is a way of knowing though .

I disagree, if in a normal rebuy tournament everyone gets 1000 chips for a £10 buy in or add-on and when the final table starts and there is a chip count - if the total chip count at the final table is 456,000 then you know that there were 456 buy ins and that the prize pool should be £4560.00

If you get a different value of chips for super-add ons then you cannot work it out from the chip count at the start of the final table as you dont know whether the 1000 chips came from a standard £10 buy in or as part of a 7000 chips for £35 super add on.

What Matt said, i am always suspicious when places do different amounts, just makes stealing easy.