Professional players and small buyin tournaments

[mikkyT]

With such a busy schedule on the circuit, do you professional tournament players still find the time to play in lower buy-in tournaments, such as £20 rebuy affairs, or even the £5 and £10 games. Do you play them the same or do you treat them as a spot of fun? Obviously the starting stack is pretty much a crapshoot affair and the blind increases are aggressive, but assuming you build an average+ stack after the rebuy period finishes, how different is your game to that of a major event?

Tony Chessa was back home last night straight from Dublin and playing in the £10 re-buy, going out I thinik 8th or 9th on the final table. I don't begrudge him donating money into my prize pool When I earlier asked why he bothered lowering himself he said it was because he had 4 days to kill before his next flight for the next event, which I guess must be Amsterdam.

So, I'm interesting in finding how everyone else feels. I know the prize pots are a lot bigger down south and even over in Edinburgh due to the number of runners and therefore more rich fish

[ifm]

i know a lot of proffesionals who play mainly £10/£20 rebuys and the occasional big event, also Lawrence Gosney went pretty much straight from winning his WSOP bracelet to his local card room for a small rebuy affair.

[Karabiner]

IMHO a "true professional" would give every tourney that he/she entered 100%.

I mean the pain of losing is not relative to the prize fund.

[doubleup]

I think that there is more to it than just making money.  The small buy-in events can be fun, the equivalent of a night off from the internet grind

[Karabiner]

Having fun should not prevent one from giving 100%, whatever the entry fee.

[doubleup]

Having fun should not prevent one from giving 100%, whatever the entry fee.

True - my comment was a general one and not a response to your post.  My point was that I (not a pro) would make more money on the net in the same time that I would spend playing a small rebuy tourney, but that wouldn't stop me playing the small tourney.  I wouldn't ever play an online tourney with the same structure as the casino comps because there's bound to be a better game (for me) somewhere.