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10-19-2005, 01:17 PM
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This week's topic was, Hosting a Homegame.
Here are the submissions:
Entry #1
Hosting a home game? I feel there are three basic tenets that you must adhere to in order to ensure a great time by all.
The first is to be organized: Be sure you have rules sent out in advance. Count your chips out prior to everyone's arrival. Determine your blind structure and timing and write it down. This allows you to be a great host and not be burdened down by counting, determining seating and guessing on rules.
The second is to be professional. The more realistic your games are in comparison to the casinos, the more your guests will enjoy their time. Consider investing in nice poker chips. Buy, or build, poker tables to seat everyone in a ring. Have someone knocked out in a tournament act as the dealer.
Lastly, make the event fun. Use tricks like naming your tournament.
("The Bowl of Poker"). Award a traveling trophy. (Engrave each person's name as the trophy makes its travels.) Track player rankings based on their placements (similar to Card Player's Player of the Year award) to create rivalries. Create a website to track all of the happenings and publicize. Best of all, make the event a fundraiser for your favorite charity. (Donate a percentage of the buy-in!)
Make it a spectacle and they'll keep coming back!
Spyke_Daddy
Entry #2
I don't host poker games because I don't like my recipe - and I only know of one. My very first poker experiences were in home games. My parents had home games, but I was always put to bed before they started. So, from what I learned from things I heard, I came up with my own recipe.
MINNESOTARON'S POKER HOME GAME RECIPE:
1 Friday night circa 1982
1 Wet basement in North Minneapolis
8 Twelve year old boys, each with a Folgers can of coins
1 Fourteen year old hateful sister
2 Parents out for the night
1 Jug of Grandmas cooking wine
1 California Bible of nudies circa 1940
3 Packs of Vantage Filters
1 Pack of Marlboro Reds for yourself
1 TV (tube style with vertical gain issues and missing a leg replaced by Sit-n-Spin)
1 Can of Lysol
1 Pack of Big Red Chewing gum
First meet 8 boys/classmates down at the bowling alley. When you’re sure parents are out for the night, light a cigarette and get everyone kicked out of the lanes for under-aged smoking. When outside, tell everyone that you have wine, smokes, and nudie cards at home. When everyone has gone home to get their allowances, run home and make sure parents are gone, and your sister’s idiot 18 year old boyfriend, Rick, has come over. Using Rick as leverage, tell sister who is supposed to be babysitting you that you’re going to have friends over for a poker party. Pay Rick for smokes, and wait for 3 of the 8 friends who don't have curfew or didn't get grounded, to show up. Proceed to basement as per threats from sister and commence with drinking, smoking, and poker home game.
As the deck of cards are yours and old, you should study the backs of them so as to know your opponents hands. Also, be prepared to always play Baseball, or Five Card Draw with up to 4 dealer choice wilds. Play will continue until someone gets mad, loses their money, gets caught cheating, throws up, or comments about how hot your sister is. Play will only pause for bathroom breaks, Friday Night Videos, and The Benny Hill Show. Parental arrival will be marked by sound of heavy and rapid footsteps on the ceiling. This is Rick running out the back door so as to avoid detection by your father. Calmly move your forewarned guests to the basement window and have them crawl out. Spray basement with Lysol and Chew a stick of Big Red. There will be plenty of time as parents will be grilling your sister about the evening’s activities.
Casually walkup stairs, inform parents that you were watching a Dukes of Hazard Marathon, back any other of your sister’s lies, and proceed to bed and dreaming about the invention of the internet.
So that’s my recipe. I was hoping to get Hollywood Poker’s recipe on hosting games, but like with most successful recipes, I doubt they will share.
~MinnesotaRon
Entry #3
Hey all!
As for home games, there are many ways to host them.
You need to decide what the prize is, for one. For example, is this a money tournament or a play money tournament with some sort of bragging rights? Maybe even extra privileges for winning in a fellow co-worker tournament.
As for the money tournaments, you need to establish an agreed upon entry fee, a time and place. In addition, you need to set up blinds and antes as well as the number of participants. Another important factor is deciding the starting chip amount.
Another important thing to remember while hosting is to provide snacks or drinks to your fellow peers. Also, you need to have quite a few card decks to shuffle.
I have personally played in low-level home games heads up. It makes you and your opponents more personable and allows you to get reads on each other.
That is all I have to say for now!
~pokerpro242
This week's topic was, Hosting a Homegame.
Here are the submissions:
Entry #1
Hosting a home game? I feel there are three basic tenets that you must adhere to in order to ensure a great time by all.
The first is to be organized: Be sure you have rules sent out in advance. Count your chips out prior to everyone's arrival. Determine your blind structure and timing and write it down. This allows you to be a great host and not be burdened down by counting, determining seating and guessing on rules.
The second is to be professional. The more realistic your games are in comparison to the casinos, the more your guests will enjoy their time. Consider investing in nice poker chips. Buy, or build, poker tables to seat everyone in a ring. Have someone knocked out in a tournament act as the dealer.
Lastly, make the event fun. Use tricks like naming your tournament.
("The Bowl of Poker"). Award a traveling trophy. (Engrave each person's name as the trophy makes its travels.) Track player rankings based on their placements (similar to Card Player's Player of the Year award) to create rivalries. Create a website to track all of the happenings and publicize. Best of all, make the event a fundraiser for your favorite charity. (Donate a percentage of the buy-in!)
Make it a spectacle and they'll keep coming back!
Spyke_Daddy
Entry #2
I don't host poker games because I don't like my recipe - and I only know of one. My very first poker experiences were in home games. My parents had home games, but I was always put to bed before they started. So, from what I learned from things I heard, I came up with my own recipe.
MINNESOTARON'S POKER HOME GAME RECIPE:
1 Friday night circa 1982
1 Wet basement in North Minneapolis
8 Twelve year old boys, each with a Folgers can of coins
1 Fourteen year old hateful sister
2 Parents out for the night
1 Jug of Grandmas cooking wine
1 California Bible of nudies circa 1940
3 Packs of Vantage Filters
1 Pack of Marlboro Reds for yourself
1 TV (tube style with vertical gain issues and missing a leg replaced by Sit-n-Spin)
1 Can of Lysol
1 Pack of Big Red Chewing gum
First meet 8 boys/classmates down at the bowling alley. When you’re sure parents are out for the night, light a cigarette and get everyone kicked out of the lanes for under-aged smoking. When outside, tell everyone that you have wine, smokes, and nudie cards at home. When everyone has gone home to get their allowances, run home and make sure parents are gone, and your sister’s idiot 18 year old boyfriend, Rick, has come over. Using Rick as leverage, tell sister who is supposed to be babysitting you that you’re going to have friends over for a poker party. Pay Rick for smokes, and wait for 3 of the 8 friends who don't have curfew or didn't get grounded, to show up. Proceed to basement as per threats from sister and commence with drinking, smoking, and poker home game.
As the deck of cards are yours and old, you should study the backs of them so as to know your opponents hands. Also, be prepared to always play Baseball, or Five Card Draw with up to 4 dealer choice wilds. Play will continue until someone gets mad, loses their money, gets caught cheating, throws up, or comments about how hot your sister is. Play will only pause for bathroom breaks, Friday Night Videos, and The Benny Hill Show. Parental arrival will be marked by sound of heavy and rapid footsteps on the ceiling. This is Rick running out the back door so as to avoid detection by your father. Calmly move your forewarned guests to the basement window and have them crawl out. Spray basement with Lysol and Chew a stick of Big Red. There will be plenty of time as parents will be grilling your sister about the evening’s activities.
Casually walkup stairs, inform parents that you were watching a Dukes of Hazard Marathon, back any other of your sister’s lies, and proceed to bed and dreaming about the invention of the internet.
So that’s my recipe. I was hoping to get Hollywood Poker’s recipe on hosting games, but like with most successful recipes, I doubt they will share.
~MinnesotaRon
Entry #3
Hey all!
As for home games, there are many ways to host them.
You need to decide what the prize is, for one. For example, is this a money tournament or a play money tournament with some sort of bragging rights? Maybe even extra privileges for winning in a fellow co-worker tournament.
As for the money tournaments, you need to establish an agreed upon entry fee, a time and place. In addition, you need to set up blinds and antes as well as the number of participants. Another important factor is deciding the starting chip amount.
Another important thing to remember while hosting is to provide snacks or drinks to your fellow peers. Also, you need to have quite a few card decks to shuffle.
I have personally played in low-level home games heads up. It makes you and your opponents more personable and allows you to get reads on each other.
That is all I have to say for now!
~pokerpro242