While unlimited rebuys are part of the poker conversation, take a look at this!

[Shells]

Alex Foxen took advantage of the unlimited re-entry policy in the $10,400 buy-in WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio. On his fifth bullet, he won the prestigious tournament for $1,694,995 after dominating a tough final table.

Any thoughts?

Alex Foxen Fires Five $10K Bullets to Win WPT Five Diamond for $1.7M

 

[shanest]

Should be capped to one re entry to level out the playing field. It is not fair for somebody who satellites in to a game way outside their roll and can't just keep firing like the pros who have the roll for these events

 

[fundiver199]

Should be capped to one re entry to level out the playing field. It is not fair for somebody who satellites in to a game way outside their roll and can't just keep firing like the pros who have the roll for these events

For live tournaments that would make a lot of sense. For online tournaments and especially micro and low stakes buyins, it really does not matter. Even rec. players can just pay out of their pocket to reenter these as many times, as they like, and the next one is always right around the corner as well.

So online, where I play, I am actually for unlimited rebuys. I just dont see any reason to not allow people to rebuy, as long as late registration is open. Rather than limiting rebuys I would much rather see poker sites limit the time, where late registration is available. I like to play shootouts, but its not really a shootout, when new players can still enter.

 

[BelFish]

I don’t like online tournaments with rebuys and with additional inputs. I like tournaments with an average number of participants and with just one buy-in. Additional entry into the tournament can only be good if you get the number of chips close to the average stack. Probably it is possible for professional players in live tournaments to benefit from entering the game with just a third of the average stack...

 

[DS3]

I think one (initial) solution to the problems could be simple,so here is an idea.

Let the players decide themselves.

At registration when players pay their entry fee, simultaneously conduct a poll on a smartpad. Each player enters his/her name (for security/verification) then votes a preference -

Single entry...1 re-entry...2 re-entry...3 re-entry...unlimited re-entry.

This poling is made by the start of the tournament, with late registering players forgoing the right to participate (which effectively would go someways to dissuade people from late registration)

The majority preference of the players, their collective decision, decides the entries permitted and all the controversy evaporates.

Tours and casinos could opt in and out of such a system to test what was or wasn’t popular with the players, but the players themselves would drive the direction/solution regarding this debate.

As noted already, this is not splitting the atom.

(The above cut and pasted from my reply to the Matt Savage post on the same issue)

However, I think it's a bit OTT to pick on Foxen. The tournament was essentially a pros only event with the buy in at $10,400. And although in recent years the reentries have not been disclosed I know in the past reentries have been over 300 at the Five Diamonds.

I am for limiting reentries/rebuys in key/main events to a single or possibly one additional reentry. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. I have no issue with well-heeled pros going at it. And as above, tournaments and casinos could experiment with the players setting the agenda (not always) via an investment of one ipad and tracking the registered players preferences. I honestly do not see why this has to be regarded as a fraught issue (other than it suited some key players agenda for many years).