Have people ever utilized the buy-in feature in tournaments at the first intermission even if they had chips left? How do you feel about this concept? I feel that you should be able to buy back in if you fall out of the tournament up until a certain point, but the idea of buying in to gain extra chips on your opponents is ludicrous, because you then have a huge advantage when you were really doing poorly in the tourney. Thoughts?

Sometimes I add on if I am low stack and the prize pool is decent. I wont add on if I have a lot of chips. Rebuy structure is ok I play them sometimes. The advantages is it builds the prize pool. Disadvantage is that people tend to play more lose so you kind of have to outlast after the add on period, then everybody tightens up and you can play some poker. Also if there is a high enough garuantee then I will consider playing, eventhough the prize pool goes over the garauntee most of the time.

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I agree, Caught. Buy-ins are great up to a point. I don't think it should be used to surpass an opponent, just to keep one in the game. I do it on occassion because I'm just enjoying the table I'm playing and I'm not losing a lot of money. Kind of like feeding the slot machines....hehe.

Limited buy-ins are great. You can buy back in the game, but only at a low amount and then only twice. So if you buy-in twice and still go broke, you have to leave the table. It grows the pot, but helps speed up eliminations.

That's a good point though, it does help grow the pot. I can handle the re-buy ins when someone wants to keep going after a bad beat or some plausible situation, but when you are simply hoarding chips by buying back in then you are not a skill player and it shows. When you buy in for a higher chip stack, it really does defeat the purpose of the game if you can simply buy your way to the top and transform from a novice to a novice bully.

If one has chips left, then they shouldn't be allowed to buy more, in my opinion. Especially in tournament play. The chip count is the score! It would be similar to a football team buying downs instead of earning them. And even they are limited to only four attempts.

I think buy-ins should have a dollar limit and limited attempts. Two at the max. At that point, one should be eliminated - you shouldn't be at the table anyways.

Excellent anology,I simply could not agree more. Many times when I see a rebuy at a tourney I'll mentally "mark" that player and push them (unless they busted on a bad beat etc.) Usually, they are the weaker players and they are buying you some more chips.