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🎲 Extra tournament entry 🎲 To re-enter game 🔁 To buy again
rebuy

rebuy

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An extra purchase of chips to re-enter a tournament
  • noun
  • Jargon
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  • She decided not to use her rebuy option and left the game early.

Examples

  • The poker event allows one rebuy per player during the first hour.

  • After losing all his chips, he made a rebuy to continue playing in the tournament.

  • I need to rebuy.

  • He decided to rebuy his chips after losing.

  • In the poker tournament, each player had the option to make a rebuy if they lost all their chips.

  • The rules stated that only one rebuy was allowed for each participant during the event.

  • After being eliminated, he decided to pay for a rebuy to re-enter the competitive round.

Surface Forms

rebuy singular
rebuying plural
rebuyes plural

Morphology

rebuy = buy (semi-transparent) = re + buy

The word is built transparently from 're-' + 'buy', but the gambling-specific sense is a specialized extension of the basic idea of buying again.

Etymology

Rebuy comes from the prefix re- ('again') and the word buy ('purchase'). As a noun it names an 'additional purchase', so in poker a rebuy is the extra chips or fee you pay to re-enter the tournament.