Your Home Poker Tournament Set Up?

[FyrFytr998]

I myself use a 400 chip set from Poker Chip Mart .
200- $25
150- $100
50- $500
One day I hope to get a personalized set of chips.

I use two decks of the KEM Arrow large index poker cards.

My tourneys are usually NLHE with $2000 in starting chips. And I run my blinds in multiples of $25 at 20 minutes each. (Just seems easier.)

And for all the early busters. $5.00 Cash Yahtzee!!! Which seems to get more competitive each time we play.

So what's your set up?

[Karsk]

i got 600 chips, 200 white, 200 red, 100 green, 100 black.
whites = 10
red = 25
green = 100
black = 500

$20 buy in, 1500 chips to start. rebuy once up to the end of the second hour. can use your rebuy at end of second hour if you are under 500 chips. first hour blinds are at 10-20. after first hour, blinds change every 30 minutes. last tourney we ran lasted from 8pm to about 2 am. side games occur if enough people are around still to play.. usually run two tables of 7 or 8 with several rebuys. money for the top 4. 1st = 40% 2nd = 25% 3rd = 10% 4th = 5% finally ran out the cheapo casino cards included in the chipsets and bought 2 decks of kem cards for the next time.

[johnnyawe]

How many players do you guys have? What do you think the minimum number of players would be for a fun home tourney?

[FyrFytr998]

I ususally run between 6 and 8 players including myself. Haven't really done it lately because of all the local tourney's popping up. Now that the Atty. Gen. has put the kabosh on the local tourney's though, I'll be back to playing home games again or going to Foxwoods.

To answer your question though Natural. It really depends on you. From everything I've read about home games. It seems the bigger you go the more potential for problems as the host. I know I couldn't concentrate enough to play with over 10 people mingling about my home. So I keep my max. at 10. Which is just enough to fit my dining room table (With the leaf extensions put in.)

Just as an aside. Any questions I might have about hosting a game, or tourney rules and regulations. I check the place below out. It really is helpful.

Home Poker Tourney.com

[Humphrind]

My set-up
500 clay chips in 5 colors
Usually start out ith $1000 chips
$10 buy in
1 or 2 decks of my Kem cards, depending on how many people are there.
blinds start at 5 / 10 and go up in close to doubling increments every 20 min.

Losers are welcome to critisize everyone who is playing, go home, smoke, drink, chat, start a side game, or torture baby seals if they want. (they would have to provide the seals as mine is now a glutton for punishment.)

[codemachine]

500 Chip Set
200 singles
150 fives
100 twenty fives
50 hundreds

Everyone starts with 800 in chips.
Round BB SB Time
1 1 2 30
2 2 4 30
3 5 10 20
4 10 20 20
5 25 50 20

Thereafter it doubles every 20 minutes. At round 3 I buy back all the singles and at 5 I buy back the fives. I bought a 10 pack of Bicycle playing card at Costco so when the cards start to get warped or if one gets bent I just pull out a new pack. I'll probably get KEM Cards at some point in the not too distant future.

[Manomanman]

For ring games, it's best to say, "Game ends at 8:00pm, if you want to leave before then, you have to pay all your blinds up to that point." So if you're playing like 2/4, then person has to pay $3 for each time around the table he would have been sitting there and folding. The blinds can either be posted to upcoming pots, or it can be paid to players at the table.

This entices people to stay and play longer, and if they do want to leave with a big stack, it will cost them. It's "better value" to just sit there and look at your hands then leave, and thus they're more likely to give play to the table and might lose some money back.

[FyrFytr998]

That's why I only play tourney style. This way the hit and runners have no choice but to stay. So if you can't hang. Don't show up. And if you bust. Roll them bones. I never knew Yahtzee could be so cut throat.

[Karsk]

first tourney i had 10 because i wanted only 1 table being the first. since then its been about 14-16 so two tables running. istn really a problem having that many people in the house since I know all of them. I'm hoping to hit 3 tables at some point. 1 in garage, 1 in side room and 1 in the kitchen.