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I accidentally bought into one just now. It seems crazy to have a game where success is just dependent on how much money you're willing to throw at it. Don't you think people should always start on equal footing? Right at the start there are people with 6x my chips.Rant over.

bleh

Totally agree. I never play rebuys. People go all in with nothing trying to double up. then when they lose they just buy back in, but meanwhile they doubled up another lucky player. there is much less skill and strategy involved in these. The skilled players will be knocked out by bad beats while the Fish throw a bunch of money at the table. Stay away from rebuys

The purpose of re-buy tournaments is to loosen up the action at the start. In regular tournaments, most people play very tight at the beginning and nothing happens for several blind levels unless two huge hands collide. With the safety net of re-buys, more players will get involved in pots with a greater variety of hands.The problem is probably that a.) you don't know proper strategy for playing re-buys (and yes, it's different than standard tournaments) and b.) you're playing at very low buy-in tournaments. Try a $50 re-buy tournament, and you'll find very few people pushing with junk hands just trying to get lucky and double up.