rebuy strategy

[rchandra]

I've seen the following advice to rebuy:

1) Always take the starting rebuy.
2) When you bust out, take both rebuys.
3) Take the addon unless you're huge or tiny.

Since online there's always another tournament you could enter, wouldn't that be better than rebuying mid-tourney? You'll have more time at the early levels. I understand if playing live that's not really an option and you want to do well in "this tournament".

So my rebuy strategy has generally been to take the initial and addon, but not make rebuys mid-tournament. I am wondering that if my logic is good, should I be forgoing even those and just play with the smaller stack? I can after all play with the smaller stack twice.

The other consideration is that your rebuy / addon may not be raked like the initial buyin. But that seems like its still not worth it, and of course some (like PokerStars $2 / $3 satellites) have no juice anyway.

Thanks in advance for opinions.

Rahul Chandra