I run my game (25c/50c) with a 200BB initial cap, and rebuys to 200BB or half the big stack. I initially did match the stack and I will never do that again, it nearly broke the game and I had to do some serious rebuilding. I am on the fence about raising the stakes because initial raises are getting progressively larger, but everybody seems to bring about 600 BB to play with which is 3 buy ins, so I think we might be in a good spot. There is another larger game in town (1/2) that gets out of hand really fast because of 1-2 players, and it sounds like everybody else complains about them ruining the fun.
Now that my game has matured this is where we are at. A few players want to buy in for $120-150 instead of the $100 and it's no problem, rebuys are fine too, nobody has gone wild. If it gets out of hand, I'll be sure to address it asap after the debacle I had while building a new game.Right. That’s not my thing. But fortunately it’s not how my game plays. So like I said, if one guy gets down to $75 and wants to top off another $100 (in a .25/.50 game) sure, go for it. If it becomes a problem at some point, I’d stop it. But that’s not where we’re at.