Pokerstars 3x-turbo satellites

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Has anybody played many/any of these? In case you don't know how they work, I just played one with a $5+$0.50 buy-in. 3000 starting stack, 5 minute blind levels, and rebuys of 3000 available for 90 minutes when you have 3000 chips or fewer (I think the "3x" means the rebuy period is 3 times what it would normally be for a turbo tournament). And after 90 minutes you can buy a 30,000 (!) add-on for $5. Blinds in the last level before the end of the rebuy period were 10,000/5,000 with a 1000 ante. I'm sure lots of people will dismiss them as "crapshoots", but I don't mind a crapshoot if I'm getting good odds, and in the one I played, only 32 out of 73 players were still in at the end of the rebuy period and were able to buy the add-on (I imagine all of those did get the add-on, though I didn't check). It seems to me that the other 41 players were giving a huge amount of value to the players who stayed in. Also, it involves a lot of short-stack poker, which is the best part of my game (plenty of practice :$). I wondered if anybody had any thoughts on the correct strategy for these, especially towards the end of the rebuy period? Should you be focused on reducing the number of rebuys you need rather than building a stack? If you go bust, should you get a single rebuy of 3k or a double rebuy of 6k? Right at the end of the rebuy period, I'm pretty sure you should just get a single rebuy, since the antes then give you much better odds when you commit all your chips preflop, but what about a bit earlier? To give some idea of the chip stacks at the end of the rebuy period, in the one I played the average was about 37k (before the add-on) and the chip leader had about 320k. Only about 10 players had more than 30k. The top 7 won a seat (actually the top 6, but the consolation prize for 7th was only $10 less than the $320 value of a seat). (I came 12th, by the way, with 6 rebuys and an add-on. :\)

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Re: Pokerstars 3x-turbo satellites so how much did you spend in total ? Sorry but i cant count at this stage of the day now . :$:$:$ Scrap the above , think u spent about $30 + for a shot at a $320 seat ? Depending on the quality of opposition , might be money well spent . But i hate tourneys that develops into crapshoots as u're forced to go into flips quickly .