Is there something to the madness of playing poorly on purpose?

[mike7734]

Change variance, and let them walk into you.

[Williamhr2]

The most annoying part of the game is someone betting rediculous amounts while you're holding one of the better hands possible, and at the showdown they have nothing while you're holding 2 pair, and the other person calling them drops a set. People who play reckless and careless effect my game the most because I make the correct read on their betting. I'm just eager to play in a real game of poker w/o the careless individuals.

[mawoyto]

Just avoid the rebuy games. So long as the sites are making money on the rebuy tournaments they keep adding them. Play multi table sit and gos.

[zingbust]

Just avoid the rebuy games. So long as the sites are making money on the rebuy tournaments they keep adding them. Play multi table sit and gos.

I'm too stubborn to switch to multi-table sngs even though that might restore my sanity. What would restore it better would be if I could figure out the exact best time to buy in because it makes no sense that I should be doing worse than normal when the play is so reckless. There's something I must be missing....there must be a way to exploit these players and make a fortune off of them instead of them making a fortune off of me.

[buonafide]

These games are tough for building a bankroll from FRs. The odds are against you if you're trying to cash with one buy-in, and with 3.5 hour late reg its easy to think you would need an average 10 buy-ins to get to the end of late reg. So if these are your type of game, then you really would want to already have a BR of at least 100 buy-ins (personally i'd like 300) to handle the high amount of variance. You need to build a deep stack going to the bubble to win these donkfests. I personally hate rebuy touneys because the variance is too high for my taste.