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Help me improve my home game
My friends and I play once a week. It's a SNG style game with a 10-20$ buy-in. I want to have some proper guidelines to use, because EVERY single week there's an argument about blinds, prize payout, etc.
Ok, so we're usually 6-10 people. The blinds start from 10/20 and move up every 20-30 mins. How many chips should we start with? What should the prize structure be? I'm just sick of arguing with these guys every week. I mean, there's one that always wants "only first place prize", another wants the blinds to go up every 10 mins, etc. Help me out fellow 2+2ers. |
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Re: Help me improve my home game
Sounds like my home game. my suggestion is to always use the same pay structure unless the number of players change. Personally i think under 10 players pays 2, 10-19 players pays 3. the blinds should be 20 minutes apart in my opinion. print out the prizes and blind schedule and have it tacked up for all to see before arriving.
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Re: Help me improve my home game
What should be the starting chip count? I usually give out around 2500 in chips.
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Re: Help me improve my home game
whoa! 2500 chips blinds start at `10-20 and go up every thirty minutes--this must take forever right?
Homepokertourney.com has everything you need. |
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Re: Help me improve my home game
1000 chips
10/20 15/30 25/50 50/100 75/150 100/200/25 150/300/25 200/400/50 250/500/50 300/600/100 etc... 4-5 hours, enough blinds to let people play payout 50/30/20 |
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Re: Help me improve my home game
ever thought of playing a cash game.
blinds $.1 and $.2 min buy-in=$5 max=size of top stack. if you want to quit and go home.........fine if you want to rebuy................fine How lame is it to have you KK get cracked by AX on the third hand in and have to go home or worse wait an hour for a hand. just my .02 |
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Re: Help me improve my home game
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I'm just sick of arguing with these guys every week. I mean, there's one that always wants "only first place prize", another wants the blinds to go up every 10 mins, etc. Help me out fellow 2+2ers. [/ QUOTE ] Who's hosting the game? If you're hosting, set the game up however you want. That's your right. In the game I host, I've never heard anyone complain that the blinds weren't going up fast enough. I fully admit that I bias my game slightly in favor of those who are above average for the group. However, I also try to make sure that those who are well below average have a good time before they're busted. The only people who don't like how I run things are the mediocre "all-or-nothing" high variance type of regulars, and I ignore their criticism with good humor. If I followed their wishes, I (and a couple other players) would win more money, but we'd have a real shortage of new players who felt comfortable in returning. |
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Re: Help me improve my home game
Oh how I'd love to play cash games, or maybe 50$ tourneys, but alas, my friends are cheapos.
"The only people who don't like how I run things are the mediocre "all-or-nothing" high variance type of regulars" Bingo. Unfortunately, most of my friends fall under this category. I especially hate them sucking out on me, winning the tourney and then saying things like "I'm gonna play smarter like this from now on", or "I always end up in the money"... arrrgh! Also, I suggested starting out with 1000 in chips since the start, but God knows why, they think somehow the game suffers with this "few" amount of chips. Thanks guys, I like the structure Socrates suggested, perhaps without the antes though, cause they'd probably mutiny and run away with the chips and cards... grrr... |
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Re: Help me improve my home game
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Also, I suggested starting out with 1000 in chips since the start, but God knows why, they think somehow the game suffers with this "few" amount of chips. Thanks guys, I like the structure Socrates suggested, perhaps without the antes though, cause they'd probably mutiny and run away with the chips and cards... grrr... [/ QUOTE ] If they have an issue with so few chips, just add a 0 to all the figures I gave you. Then they can start with 10K in chips - GL my friend. They'll come around as they learn the game more. You could possibly try to explain to them that 10K in chips works the same as 1K in chips. If they have 1K and the blinds are 10 / 20, a 3x raise is 60. If they were to have 10K, the 3x rasie would be 600 - hopefully they could see your logic. |
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Re: Help me improve my home game
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Oh how I'd love to play cash games, ... , but alas, my friends are cheapos. [/ QUOTE ] I don't really see the connection. Couldn't you just play smaller cash games? My friends are mostly winning $2/$4 or $5/$10 online, but on wednesdays we play $0.20/$0.40 LIMIT. (We decided we didn't need to win money from friends. Besides, gradStudents are ALL 'cheapos'. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ) It doesn't get much cheaper, but we have a great game. -Sam |
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