Casino Night at wife's co-workers party and...

[frisbee]

...I am running the poker table. They will give out some sort of tokens at the door, and I am planning to have folks sign up for single table tourneys for a certain amount of tokens. Then give them chips and have the blinds elevate like online single-table tourneys. Winner buys into "final" table if there is interest.

Anybody have comments/experience with something like this? I suspect many of the people who play will be pretty clueless, and then others may be more experienced.

I'm thinking no-limit hold-em (as seen on TV! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]) to keep it simple. I can imagine all sorts of problems, but I guess I should relax, the folks will be there to have fun with what is essentially play money.

Any comments? Suggestions? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[StevieG]

Sounds like a lot of fun. You may want to consider:

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[*]Print out a list of rules and make them available[*]Post the starting time for your tournament. for a short period before then, offer a series of "training games" for those interested
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Keep it light and friendly. Tell us how it went.

[frisbee]

I will let you know--thanks!

[bygmesterf]

Anybody have comments/experience with something like this? I suspect many of the people who play will be pretty clueless, and then others may be more experienced.

I'm thinking no-limit hold-em (as seen on TV! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img])

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Why don't you do Limit Five Card Draw instead. Everyone grasp's how to play that. Unlike us, not everyone knows about hold'em. NL Hold'em would be both confusing, and might generate bad feelings if someone loses their stack early on.

For Draw try to have a 5-1 Ante Ratio. So at the start. Play it pass and out.

1 5/10
2 10/20
3 15/30
5 25/50
6 30/60
8 40/80
10 50/100

[frisbee]

Thanks for the feedback, byg

Draw, eh? You are probably right. I got more than a week to decide on this. Funny, I never even thought of another game. I mean hold em is all there is, right? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] I also thought most everyone these days has seen a bit of the TV poker--though, you're right, confused more than anything.

Ah, shucks, now I gotta think some more. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Thanks again!

[frisbee]

As promised, here's the report.

Not very exciting. I had prepared for both hold em and draw, saw that draw would be best and forget about the tourny. People bought in for $400 of their ($1000) play dollars and got chips. Ended up that people called their own games, very informal, cashed in and out as they pleased. There was really only two tables of blackjack as other options. About half the people didn't really bother with the "gambling". Everyone seemed to have a fine time--just wasn't anything more than a penny game when the cousins are around.

Very fun. I overplanned my role. Oh well...

Cheers

[PokerSlut]

I think that most people who would be interested in signing up for a poker tourney have probably seen people playing Holdem on TV. Pretty much everyone I know watches WPT, even though they aren't poker players at all, and can follow the game enough to be able to at least understand the mechanics involved with NL Holdem.

Of course that being said, 5-card draw is the poker game that most Americans learn first.