| I'm just not getting the quality of play argument. In online tournaments, yeah, I can see how it gets reckless and people are just trying to double up and all that crazy play. I don't see that in my home game though. Play is definitely a little looser, but I don't see how that decreases the "quality" of play. You have to be able to adapt to all sorts of games. If play is loose and wild and everyone is gambling it up, and you want to play it safe, play tight, lay back, and pounce when you've got a big hand. The other option is to go ahead and loosen up yourself and try to flop a monster with your speculative starting hands. You're going to get paid off while the game is wild. How is that a bad thing?
The bottom line is, it's all legitimate poker. It's not of poor quality just because the play is loose. For me, I like the first hour during rebuy time. The blinds are low so you can be more involved. It gets boring fast to play fold, fold, fold, tight poker all the time. And in case you do flop a monster, but then get sucked out on, you've got the rebuy to fall back on. Again, long term, skill will win out. In this case, your skill is getting a second chance to get back in the money after a short term luck out just knocked you out.  | 
