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I've noticed a few different freerolls have rebuys and addons, and there is always a few people that rebuy and/ or addon even when the math makes absolutely no sense.
For example, this BetAndSkill had 22 payers. This is baffling to me as the prizepool is $100 and there are 1417 entrants. In order to get into the point of paying your re-entry back you would need to place in the top 1% of players.
Not only that but just from a pure EV standpoint it's lighting money on fire. Assuming an equal distribution, each entrant has an expected value of roughly 7 cents when buying in for 3000 chips. This means the re-entry is overpaying by over roughly 7X and addons are 5X.
Most of the 888 Sat freebuys have addons and rebuys but the rebuys are cheaper and offer more chips. The addons give you substantially more chips and might be worth it assuming the field is thinned enough already. I think these make sense but the RaketheRake and BetAndSkill freeroll R&As seem like a total ripoff.
Is there ever a time when this makes sense or is it just people entirely incapable of doing math?

For example, this BetAndSkill had 22 payers. This is baffling to me as the prizepool is $100 and there are 1417 entrants. In order to get into the point of paying your re-entry back you would need to place in the top 1% of players.
Not only that but just from a pure EV standpoint it's lighting money on fire. Assuming an equal distribution, each entrant has an expected value of roughly 7 cents when buying in for 3000 chips. This means the re-entry is overpaying by over roughly 7X and addons are 5X.
Most of the 888 Sat freebuys have addons and rebuys but the rebuys are cheaper and offer more chips. The addons give you substantially more chips and might be worth it assuming the field is thinned enough already. I think these make sense but the RaketheRake and BetAndSkill freeroll R&As seem like a total ripoff.
Is there ever a time when this makes sense or is it just people entirely incapable of doing math?

















