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  1. Karnage Karnage is offline

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    Nov 19th, 2006 (11/19/2006 10:04pm)

    Hello, I am planning on setting up a decent sized game at a friends house in a few weeks. The total buy-ins for the whole evening would be $25-$75 and there are likely to be only 6-10 people around the single table. The game will be no-limit holdem (because no one else is willing to learn PLO8).

    I want a game that will require some poker skill to win, so be deep stacked and 'non-turbo'? But I dont want a game that will take 5 hours to finish.

    I also want this game to become regular, every 8 weeks or so, so I want the guys to WANT to play again even if they lose. (They arent degenerate gamblers, so I cannot rely on addiction unfortunately.) So another option is $10 turbo SNGs, with 10 min blinds.

    I have zero experience in live poker so am wondering if anyone here has a suggestion for the set-up, or even examples of their own home game, and features they like.
  2. Platypus22 Platypus22 is offline

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    Nov 19th, 2006 (11/19/2006 11:10pm) in reply to Karnage

    Here's a decent home-game single table setup:

    keep in mind that there is a big time difference depending on the number of players. If you want to speed the game up, you can always shorten up the blind levels from 20 minutes, down to 15 minutes for the first few levels. You can also add in ante's in the later rounds (but that'll change the chip-up requirement since you'll need those $25 chips

    $1250 in starting chips (1) $500, (4) $100, (8) $25, (10) $10, (10) $5

    This will start everyone with 33 chips so they won't feel like they're broke from the start.

    Blinds at 20min. for the entire tourney

    Rounds:
    10-20
    15-30
    20-40
    chip-up (get rid of $5 and $10 chips)
    25-50
    50-100
    75-150
    100-200
    150-300
    chip-up (get rid of $25 chips)
    200-400
    300-600
    400-800
    500-1000
    600-1200
    800-1600
    1000-2000

    I've hosted a lot of different home tourneys. There's a million different ways you can do it - most of which are just fine. The key is making sure that you have a good timing system (not just one dude watching his Timex), the blinds posted (even if that means they're just written on post-it notes), and make sure you have enough chips!!!

    There's a decent website: www.homepokertourney.com that has a lot of good information.

    I use the program The Tournament Director (you can read about it on the above website) to run our weekly tourneys. (It was cheap and I absolutely LOVE it. We've had single table, multi table, mixed games, rebuys, etc. And this program ROCKS! It makes it a lot easier to manage the event ESPECIALLY if you plan on playing in the event.

    People will take the game a lot more seriously if it is organized well....and they will return.

    Good luck,

    worldseriesofdonkeypoker.com
  3. Karnage Karnage is offline

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    Nov 20th, 2006 (11/20/2006 12:11am) in reply to Platypus22

    Excellent, thanks man.
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