Rebuy tourneys

I'm used to playing no limit hold em with no rebuys. I recently found a game in my area that does rebuys for the first 3 levels of blinds. I find that it invites a lot of terrible players and play. Is this universal or is it just me?

I think it's natural that people will be encouraged to play more loosely when they know they can rebuy - sometimes this is a good thing, sometimes it's not.

Our local casino runs a rebuy tournament once a week - $25 buy-in, $25 rebuys for the first hour, but you're allowed to rebuy (for either $1000 or $2000 in chips) any time you got below your starting stack of $1000. So you could pay your blinds for a round, or lose a minimum bet in a hand, then throw fifty bucks at the dealer and be up to almost $3000 in chips.

It's clearly a strategy for the casino to make money from all the rebuys, and it works. The solid / tighter players have the potential to make a lot of chips from all the donk shoves though.

I deal a bar game that has rebuys and tends to work a bit better because people have to get felted before they can buy back in (at the starting stack). It still encourages donk shoves to a degree, but they've got to do it with the knowledge that they'll be starting back with a less competitive stack. And the solid players still have an opportunity to accumulate chips from the "I'll just rebuy if this doesn't work" players

Live rebuys at the casino are mainly just for house profit; I would never really consider playing one. Online is a different story, though.

I played a $2 rebuy on line with 400 players. You can rebuy for the first hour. After 40 min they were down to 395 players and had 730 rebuys. I dumped my chips and don't play rebuys anymore.

when i've played in rebuy tourneys online for low dollar amounts, people just play insane. it's not really poker so much as all in every hand and hope.

yea i've found out that a lot of times i try rebuys i get busted early on someone just pushing all in when i actually have something. however, in a few i've done well doubling up a few times and once you can make it past the first hour the play changes of