The players who played these re-buy event are like cats but with more then “nine tournament lives”, after a fall they go deep in the pockets and stick in the tournament to have another chance at the title. Whenever they’ve lost they bought back in the tournament and whenever they had less of the beginning WSOP Event 5 stack they received through a re-buy the starting chips amount 2000 but only for the first two hours. In those kind of events you need to know from the beginning how muck are you willing to spend on re-buys if you catch a series of bad beats and you go broke. You could say that some poker pro players are so determined to win that they spend lots of money in order to have a chance later on in the tournament and double up. Daniel Negreanu is holding in present the record for the most re-buys in WSOP event with 46 reload times in 2006.

These year the $1000 No-Limit Hold'em w/Re-buys event attracted 766 players and 2.258 re-buys. The price poll will top out at $2.894.094 and the first 72 players will have cash into their pockets: first place will cash $636.736 and the rest of the 71 place’s will win a total $2.237.358.

2008 WSOP event had many pro players like: Gavin Smith, Greg Raymer, Jonny Chan, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, Daniel Negreanu, Erick Lindgren and so on, but some of them where sent home early including Robert Mizrachi, Men Nguyen, Barry Greenstein and before dinner Gavin Smith and Eli Elezra. At the end of the day the leader board still had names like Negreanu, Smith, Ivey, Juanda, Hellmuth and Raymer. Interesting was the fact that after the dinner break was over some great pro poker players were eliminated from the tournament: Jamie Gold, Erick Lindgren and Mike Matusow.

It was a wild tournament with many loose players early for the blind all-in move on multiple hands and many tables with seats opened because of the lack of four, and in some cases, five players during the re-buy period. The top 5 players, at the end, of the day, were: Phil Ivey $175,500 ; Amit Makhija $161,100 ; Jeff Williams $145,700 ; Marco Johnson $132,600 ; Jesse Chinni $129,000. A great presence was Phil Hellmuth because he spread his frustration through all the players from his table and made his usual poker symphony: “I’m raising every, pot.”, “Who do you think you’re playing?”, “I’m one of the top players, good luck bluffing me.” , to put allot of pressure on his table.

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