| Re: Partitioned Freeze-out as a re-buy alternative?
I put together a tournament where I wanted deep stacks and longer play,
but I didn't want players busting out in a few hands, so this is what I came up with:
Each player started with $5000 in chips and three bounties
if you were all in you placed one of your bounties in the pot
one of the two worth $5, or the other worth $10
if you used a $5 one and lost you would get $10,000 in chips
(sort of like your reserve)
if you used the $10 one and lost you'd get $20,000 in chips
So you could choose to use the $10 one early to get more chips but then you wouldn't have it to cash at the end of the game if you won.
It worked pretty well, with some players getting busted early, then mounting come backs with their other chances.
This was a championship game so we kept the buy-in $20, which covered all the bounties, for the prize pool we used funds that had been gathered over the course of the year for monte carlo jackpots. | 
