Re: Setting up a game...
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I'm heading back to school here soon and really want to set up a game--problem is i am not sure who will want to play. Just looking for suggestions on how to set up a weekly game...
rjb1889
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To have 5-7 players each week, we needed about 10-14 people on our list. With fewer than that, the game usually wouldn't go. Pick the same night every week for your game, and send out a mass email about two days before that asking who wants to play. If you don't get enough people from that, try asking around, or ask your players to bring someone. For a social game, it's usually best to play limit poker rather than NL or PL. You might make the game dealer's choice, or you could make it something like HORSE (because in dealer's choice games people only call games with dealer advantages and you never get to play stud-type games). If you have high-low games with "declare" or games with lots of wild cards, make sure you agree on the rules beforehand - in a wild card game does five of a kind beat a straight flush, or what happens in a high/low declare game if someone declares "both" and wins one side and ties for the other side?
If blinds are too confusing for your players, you can play holdem with an ante, and play starts to the left of the dealer on every round. Omaha-8 may be too confusing also - stud, razz, draw, lowball, and triple draw lowball are all easy for beginning players to learn.
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