There are mixed opinions on rebuy tournaments amongst the poker community. If you ask super-aggressive players who don’t have any problem throwing money around, rebuy tourneys are the greatest thing ever to happen to poker. Of course there is such a thing as throwing too much money around in these tournaments so it’s definitely worth taking a look at how many times one should rebuy.
One school of thought is that players should rebuy as much as possible so they always have a big stack. And if you’ve got one of the biggest stacks, it becomes a lot easier to push other players around on the table. Unfortunately, multiple rebuys can cause players to be careless and move all-in frequently without much thought. This is when poker becomes gambling and all of those rebuys are wasted if you don’t make a huge cash in the end.
However, making too many rebuys has to be preferable to not making any rebuys at all which is what some people tend to do. The reason some players do this is because they like the favorable overlays that are offered in rebuy tournaments. But this is a huge waste of money because one is putting them self at a huge disadvantage against the other players by not rebuying.
So perhaps the best way to go in rebuy tournaments is somewhere in the middle where you plan on rebuying several times during the course of the tourney. Doing it this way allows you to keep pace with the other players in terms of chips as well as avoid the reckless trap that some players fall into by acting as if they have unlimited rebuys. Also, limiting yourself to a certain number of rebuys is a great way to avoid spending too much on a single tournament.
