Rebuys vs Freezeouts

By Hugo Martin

6 June 2007

What's the difference between a rebuy and a freezeout tournament? Read our essential guide...

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Tournaments come in many shapes and forms, but the most common are rebuy tournaments and freezeout tournaments. A rebuy tournament is one that allows you to buy more chips should you go broke within a certain time frame, usually around about an hour or hour and a half. If there are unlimited rebuys that means that every time you go bust you can always buy in again. As you can imagine more rebuys means that the prize pool can grow pretty big. Some rebuy tourneys are limited to just one rebuy; i.e. you go broke once and then reload; if you go skint again you are now out of the tournament. A lot of rebuy tournaments these days allow you to rebuy anytime you have your starting stack or less. This means you can rebuy immediately and double your stack before the first hand. Another feature of rebuy tournaments these days is the add-on. This is one final rebuy, regardless of how many chips you have, that occurs when the rebuy period has finished. After this no more rebuys at all and the knockouts begin.

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A freezeout tournament is basically the opposite of a rebuy tournament. For your initial buy-in you receive x amount of chips and once you have lost all of these you are out of the tournament.

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