December 16, 2008 by bill.buckley.

I was wondering what are the rules at most casinos for when a person is elgible to rebuy.  At a local charity game the rebuy amount was set to anything below the starting amount.  One player prior to a hand had substantially more than the the rebuy amount but during the hand had bet an amount that would put him below the rebuy amount (he remained in the hand).  He then called over the rebuy person and did a rebuy since the amount he had in front of him at this point was less then the rebuy amount (he did not use the rebuy during this hand).  That person also won the hand so depite the fact that he started the hand with more than the rebuy amount and he had more than the rebuy amount after the hand he also got to keep the rebuy that he had gotten giving him a substantial lead.  When the Tournment director was called to rule on this he said it was perfectly acceptable.  In later talks with the TD when questioned wether this was done at casinos he said of course and he has done it before.  This is new to me, I always thought that at most casinos you have to have started a hand (or ended a hand) with less than or equal to the rebuy amount before being eligible for a rebuy and that you could not use your chips in play to reduce your pot to amount that would allow you to rebuy in the middle of a hand.   I know an organizaiton can do what they want in terms of how to determine rebuys (and understand the charity is trying to get as many rebuys to help make money for a good cause) but am just wondering what the most accepted practice was in regards to when a person can rebuy I don’t ever remeber being at a casino where they allowed rebuys to be done his way (of course there are lots of casinos in the world) and I only rarely enter rebuy tournaments. 

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December 2, 2008 by frenchflush.

Hello,

During a tournament a player stand up and declare he is leaving and will not come back (for personnal reasons) : we retired his chips from the tournament … right?

GG

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November 1, 2008 by remoh.

You are a tournament Director in a 10 table poker room who is holding a 200 person major poker tournament with two Day 1 flights. However due to less than maximum registrations you end up with 150 entrants of which 100 wish to play Day 1A (eg Fri) and only 50 wishing to play Day 1B (eg Sat).

Do you do anything to cater for the imbalance such as possibly reducing the length of both Day1’s  by 1 blind level (60 minute levels) to ensure enough players from Day1B make it to Day 2? 

Do you do nothing? and let the tournament run its course…….for Day 1B at the end of the day from 50 players you may only have 10 left….

Im up for any suggestions or what may have been done in the past…..This is the first time we have run multi Day1 flights in a tournament due to popularity of the game.

TA     Remoh 

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September 9, 2008 by khalade.

Hello All,

My question is pretty simple but I wanted to verify my information before I passed it along.  If a person has begun a tournament or bought into the tournament persay, and they play a few rounds but then have to leave the tournament what happens to their chips?  For example, if they had to respond to an emergency and couldn’t finish out the tournament how should they officially be handled?

Thanks,

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July 24, 2008 by vilote.

Hi, this is what happened in a NL tournament with just one re-buy in the three first levels : a player is eliminated and stands up. As usually, the dealer  calls me to let me know that a player is out. I ask the player, who is standing by the table, if he wants to make the re-buy. The player hesitates, and then says “OK, why not” and gets back to his sit.  I have to say that no new hand had been dealt by then.
Two players claimed that that player could not sit back again, since he had already left the table.
I know the crupier should have asked the player before he left the table, but the she was not an experienced one.

Did I make the right decesion?

Thanks in advance.

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