[Lori]

Interesting that William disagrees, although he's a monster with a big stack, and I'm probably better short stacked.

In the long run, you should be able to do okay without the rebuy, each rebuy is an extra tourney you could have played.

Therefore the extra rebuy implies you have to win twice as much as you would if you didn't rebuy.
This is tough.

Taking the extreme case, if you were allowed 100 rebuys and nobody else had one in a 10 player tourney, you would actually need to win more than first prize to get your money back.

Clearly this is extreme, and there are some merits in having it early on, but personally I find that having to do twice as well is just too much to overcome.

If you lose your chips, it is usually worth having a rebuy, although with online play offering games every hour, this might not be as clear cut as it was in the days when I played live and would have to make my wages at one tourney per day.

Lori