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marctg
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04-18-2005, 02:11 PM
Post subject: Making home games more interesting...
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 18
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I play in a weekly home game. We play tournement style Texas Hold'em. Right now we usually have 8-11 guys with a $20 buy-in. Last week we were talking about changing it to $20+$2 and having a "Player of the Quarter" prize. We would give out points based on your finishing position. We would run this for 3 months (13 weeks).
Another thing I was think was to make it a $20+4 and have $2 go to the Player of the Quarter and $2 go to a Bad Beat Jackpot. To win the pot you would need Aces full or better, using both of your hole cards.
Do any of you guys have anything like this in your games? If so do you have any advice you would give on this.
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Gumbo
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: MA - Go Patriots!!!
Posts: 8
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Another idea is having a bounty. We do $50 tourneys with an extra $5 bounty. If you knock somebody out of the tourney, you get their $5 bounty.
Gumbo
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,855
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We've done a bad beat pot in the past at some of my home tournaments. The best hand of the night to lose wins the pot. Doesn't matter if the best hand of the night to lose is trip 2's, flush king-high, quads, or whatever. And it doesn't matter if you use one or two of your hole cards.
I like the bounty thing.
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TenPercenter
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas TX
Posts: 16
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I agree with the bounty, it adds spice. We did a bounty in our game Saturday, it was a real hit. $2 gets you a unique bounty chip, and when you knock someone out you get their chip. When you're out of the tourney, you redeem them for $2 each.
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TenPercenter
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TN_POKER_MAN
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 19
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bad beat jackpots are cool, although bounties are more fun IMHO
If you run a 13 week league, make sure you don't penalize folks too much for missing 1 or 2 games. If you ran it 13 weeks, you might want to only take each player's best 10 or 11 finishes. This doesn't penalize folks if they can't make it every week and also allows for a bad performance or two.
The cream always seems to rise to the top anyway, but it would suck to lead the league for 9 weeks only to be called out of town or get the flu and miss a night of poker....thus destroying all that hard work.
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BadBeat17
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: California
Posts: 6
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What we've been doing lately is having a side pot - say $1 from each person - for the highest hand of the night. It must be a shown hand played all the way after the river. It adds some extra fun for the night.
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mgobluefb
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Straight
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 172
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How about this. Around 12-16 people, $20+$3 tournaments once a week for about 4 months. The money that each player wins in the tournaments is added up. The top 6-8 (pick a number) money winners during the "tour" are invited back to a "tournament of champions" - with the fees in the pot.
For example, you have 12 tournaments, 14 people in each one. The fees add up to $3 x 14 x 12 = $504. If you have a $25 buy in "tournament of champions" with 8 people, the pot is $200 plus the $504 from the tournament fees - a very nice prize pool.
It doesn't seem like it would hurt a player too much to miss a tournament or two either.
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