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A rebuy tournament is one in which you can buy more chips during the early blind levels. In a tournament without rebuys (also called a freezeout) when you lose all your chips, you're simply eliminated.

PokerStars Showtime Hold'em will be available today in the PokerStars lobby as a cash game. The stakes start at $0.02/$0.05 all the way to $5/$10 with everything in-between. Like Split Hold'em before it, it is currently a limited time only trial. The poker player Showtime was first discovered by HighstakesDB on the high stakes tables of PokerStars on Friday, September 9, 2011. Since then, a total of 2 poker hands have been tracked with.

In a rebuy event, if you lose all your chips, you can buy back into the tournament.

Here are the facts about rebuy tournaments:

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  • There is a rebuy period during the early levels of the tournament. A typical rebuy period might be the first hour of the event. Once that period is over, no more rebuys are allowed. The rebuy period is announced in the tournament lobby.

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  • During the rebuy period, there may be a fixed or an unlimited number of rebuys available.
  • If you run out of chips, you will automatically be offered a rebuy (if one is available). If you're not eligible for a rebuy, you'll see a pop-up message advising you so. You can choose to automatically rebuy when you run out of chips by pressing the 'Auto Rebuy' button above the chat window. If that is the case, your account will be charged and your rebuy chips credited automatically. On a mobile device, there's a re-buy checkbox at the table along with the other checkboxes, and you can also tap the Menu button and select 'Add More Chips'.

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  • If a rebuy is available, you can rebuy at any time if your chip stack is less than or equal to your original starting stack, and as long as you're not in a hand. For example, if you started with 1,500 chips, you can rebuy any time your chip stack is 1,500 or less. Whenever you're eligible for a rebuy, we'll show a 'Rebuy' button directly on the table.
  • Rebuys and add-ons generally cost the same as the original buy-in, for which you receive the same number of chips again as your starting stack. Rebuys are also charged a small amount.
  • The prize pool and payouts will not be announced until the rebuy period ends, since the prize pool increases with each rebuy.
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The most high-profile attempt yet to draw the esports crowd into poker appears to be closing up shop.

According to a Poker Industry PRO report ($) earlier this week, PokerStars will be shutting down its Power Up game at some point in the near future.

While a link on the PokerStars website indicates the game is still live, a PokerStars rep confirmed the reporting to PRO.

“PokerStars has made the decision to remove [Power Up] game from the poker client,” they said.

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Lifespan of Power Up

The first news of Power Up hit the wire in early 2017.

It was then deployed for real money in October of that year, setting it apart from other esports/hold'em hybrids. Games were essentially three-handed sit-n-gos, and stakes available were relatively low, topping out at $15 games, according to PRO.

Power Up was a Hearthstone-like game that had its base in traditional hold'em. Starting with that base, developers gave the players different powers and abilities like switching out hole cards, exposing opponent cards and peeking at future streets.

PokerNewsreviewed the game here.

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After a little initial marketing and some support from PokerStars ambassadors, PokerStars didn't seem to push Power Up much, instead rolling out other novelty games like Split Hold'em and Showtime across 2018 and 2019.

Despite PRO quoting a PokerStars rep as saying Power Up had a 'strong and loyal following,' it doesn't seem the game ever caught on in a major way.

It wouldn't be alone in that sense among esports hybrids. Another title, HoldemX, became available in 2016 from Mediarex, the same company behind the Global Poker League. That game no longer appears to be available in the app stores, and its social media accounts have been dormant for more than three years.

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Despite the apparent miss with Power Up, PRO did report that all of the money spent on development didn't turn out to be a waste for PokerStars, as the game engine built to power it is now behind all of PokerStars' online client.

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More Games on Tap?

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While users of Power Up may be unhappy to learn that it will soon be packed up and stored in PokerStars' attic somewhere, those looking for the next new game should soon be getting welcome news from the world's leading online poker operator.

Another report from PRO ($) indicated two new games are on the horizon: Tempest Hold'em and Deep Water Hold'em.

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No details about the games leaked, other than that they'll be offered for 'a limited period.'

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