Alternate Social Tourney Format Ideas?

[EStreet20]

Scrap the "couples tourney" and just have regular poker nights with people who want to play, inviting others to come and sit and chat if they want.

[EStreet20]

P.S. I hate replying to my own posts but I'd just like to state (since I', hungover and cranky) that if any of my friends ever invited my girlfriend and me to a "couples tourney" I'd want to puke for being friends with such a sackless guy. No offense, it's the hangover talking.

Good luck,
Matt

Couples, haha what is this a roller skating rink??

[BigRedAce]

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P.S. I hate replying to my own posts but I'd just like to state (since I', hungover and cranky) that if any of my friends ever invited my girlfriend and me to a "couples tourney" I'd want to puke for being friends with such a sackless guy. No offense, it's the hangover talking.

Good luck,
Matt

Couples, haha what is this a roller skating rink??

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God help your girlfriend for dating such a jackass.

Are you so much of a magoo you fear getting beaten by the girls?

[EStreet20]

Haha, once again that was mostly hangover surliness. But no, my friends and I have a few girls who play in our home games. One of them has actually gotten quite good, because she comes wanting to play, not just to hang out and see everyone. The point I will make, which I really made no effort to get across before is that if you have these "social tourney" setups as you called them, you will always have to deal with a lot of sitting around talking. My suggestion would be to treat your home games as an event where people who actually want to play a poker tourney can play and if the wives/husbands/significant others or whoever else wants to come along but aren't that into poker they can just relax on some couches and talk, have a few drinks etc. so that everyone enjoys their night as much as possible. This is meant with no offense whatsoever but I don't see the point of trying to integrate ones significant other into everything he/she does, especially if that person isn't particularly interested and from your situation it sounds like you have a lot of people who would be more interested in mingling at a coktail party or just hanging out at someone's house talking than playing poker and it's slowing up your game.

Good luck,
Matt

P.S. I've never been called a magoo before, that's pretty cool.

[MrBrightside]

Frankly, my home game took a vote when someone's girlfriend wanted to play: No women allowed. We're mostly old married guys with kids who are there to smoke cigars and have a "boys Nite". I didn't really care that much, as long as someone didn't start whining about the smoke.

Our bigger tourneys (up to 24), where we widen the invite list have had some whiners about the cigar smoke (we're in a garage with the door open and a fan for **** sake). We made it clear he was welcome to host a tourney and have it no smoking. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[BigRedAce]

In case it wasn't clear to those of you making idiotic comments about inviting women to the game (gasp) this is a *social* tournament. We (the men of the neighborhood) started it not to supplant our regular competitive games, but to allow other folks (including some our wives, girlfriends) to play who had expressed interest in playing a game we are all fanatical about.

Kind of like bridge in the 60's.

We still play for much higher stakes (that we lie about to our wives) drink our tequila, smoke our cigars and chug Spaten at the lodge *without the girls*.

Now if anyone has anything friggin USEFUL to say about SOCIAL TOURNAMENT FORMATS instead of playing at being some Soprano's poker wannabe, please respond.

[EStreet20]

Here's the point, you won't be able to have a "social torunament" that'll run any smoother than the one you already do. I thought that's what the original post was for. you'll always have soccer moms and PTA activist blabbing away instead of moving expeditiously from table to table. You'll always have people gabbing it up instead of paying attention to the action. What the [censored] were you asking in your original post again????? for ideas of an easier way to get through a social tourney. My response is, there is no easier way, except to redraw tables by stack size, every hour (I.E big and small stacks sit together and so on like the seedings in the NCAAs until everyone has a seat). Then you'll deal with a lot of talking and BS like I already stated. My best advice is still, have some other kind of social engagement besides a poker game at your house.

Honestly, you know you can't tell me straight that you don't think half of these guys' wives aren't complaining about getting "dragged" to go play poker again.

Good luck chief,
Matt