Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: The Felt
Posts: 51
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Thanks for the responses Natural and everyone else.
A ring game sounds like it would be an interesting way to play. Especially on nights when people will be showing up at all different times. I do live in a small town and everyone I play with lives within 5-10 minutes so there would definately have to be a rule of only cashing out once.
However I could still see a problem with guys cashing out early after winning a big pot. That would be lame. One guy wins a huge pot and leaves with the majority of the money and the rest are left to fight over the scraps. A time limit on cashing out would work and I guess playing Limit would prevent that to some extent but we all agree that NL is much more exciting.
Another question to you ring game guys. On average, what kind of payouts are people leaving with in respect to the buy-ins? Do a couple guys double or triple their money and the rest leave with a few bucks? Is it rare for one guy to leave with a big wad of $$$?
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Originally Posted by TheNatural
A question for you.. When you have tourney games, what do people do once they are eliminated? I'm thinking of playing a tourney one night, but I figure it would be very boring for the people who get eliminated early. Do people just leave, or stick around and watch, or play a side game, or what?
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You're right Natural. Getting busted out early sucks. This is the beauty of playing tournament style in my eyes though. It forces you play your cards and chips very intelligently. You get involved in a big hand and your blood and adrenaline is just pumping because you know it could potentially be the end of your night. Which to me, seems like the way it should be. Its a survival game and your tolerance for risk starts low and goes up as the night wears on. Its very exciting. When someone goes all-in early it usually means something. Usually guys are hesitant about going all-in too early but some nights when a few guys get eliminated right away we just start a side game. Sometimes these side games can get a big pot going!
For chips I have a case of 650 11.5 grams chips for the main game and I have about 2000 plastic chips for all the side game losers 
Our tourneys are No Limit with a $10-$20 buy-in. No rebuys! Everyone starts with 800 in chips and the blinds increase every 10 hands. We have a little slider off of a fooseball table to keep track of which hand it is. The blinds go up much like PartyPoker tourneys 10/15, 15/30, 25/50, 50/100, 100/200, 150/300, 200/400, 250/500, 300/600, 400/800. Playing this way with 6-10 people the game will last anywhere from 3-5 hours. If we have 9 or 10 people we usually give 3rd their buy-in back, otherwise 2nd will double up and first place takes the rest. The pot for first is usually $50-$70 for a $10 buy-in. Or $80-$140 for a $20 buy-in game.
We've tried all kinds of different blind structures but this one seems to work well and is the most exciting.
Hope this helps.
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