Quote Originally Posted by StackSnack View Post
I am absolutely amazed at the play we see online. I will say the old timers that specialize in rebuy tourneys would play this dynamic with great success. .
True, how true. I am a rebuy specialist wannabe/usedtobe. But I don't have enough bankroll to justify the costs of 1 buy-in, 1 rebuy, and the addon. My bankroll management scheme is quite liberal in that I will allow myself to use up to 10% of my entire roll on any given tourney on any of my sites (I have about 6 sites), but the only site I have enough on (Intertops) doesn't have enough rebuy tourneys at the time of day I like to play and am at my best.

So I have to try building back up with late reg tourneys, whether turbo or not. It gets even more ridiculous when it's a turbo, even if the late reg period is much shorter because by the time a late-jumper-inner (or multi-re-enterer) jumps into those, they're only getting 5 bb or sometimes even less than that.

This should be GOOD news for me. The worse my competition is and the shorter their stacks, the BETTER it should be for me instead of worse, like it actually is, yet for some mysterious reason, it's not working out. Give me a standard structured rebuy tourney with one hour of late reg and I believe I could do fine...I have a history of doing fine in those, but they're not out there any more except where they're beyond my bankroll and this is starting to frustrate me a little.

Have any of you experimented around with the optimal time to buy into a mega-late registration/re-entry period and done EXTENSIVE experimentation? I do find the competition to be rather tough when I enter on time for the first hour or so, so maybe entering about 1 hour late would be optimal, I've tried that but still no luck...maybe 2 hours late would be better, I'm not sure. Maybe entering on time is best and just tough it out for the first half-hour to one hour and hope for the best and stop feeling frustrated after playing 4 hours and reaching the cusp of riches only to be shot down by another big stack who got HIS big stack from being exceptionally lucky after going on a once-in-a-lifetime tear and just so happens to have AA when his range is any two cards at the time I go up against him.