Add Ons in Tournaments & Cash Games
In tournament and cash game poker, it is always important to have a well sized chip stack in comparison to your opponents.
Many kinds of poker tournaments will advertise poker tournaments where an ‘add on’ is offered to players who opt to do so before a schedule time limit in the event. The ‘add on’ is usually a set price at which any player can purchase an additional set of chips to add to his tournament chip stick. Usually these chips are offered at a price that make the amount of chips you get per dollar greater than the price of the chip your bought in for, thus making the usefulness of ‘add ons’ seem almost mandatory to most tournament players. If everyone else does the add on, and you do not, you are at a clear disadvantage, especially when the add on is significantly sized.
In cash games, an ‘add on’ refers to new chips bought by a player to increase his cash game chip stack before he has busted out. Players will do this so that they have the most money behind them in a given hand, as opposed to trying to push their short stack to victory. Once a player goes broke, the purchase of new chips is called a ‘rebuy’ rather than an ‘add on,’ for obvious reasons.
