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Yes, this is in fact a photo of one of my non-poker friend raking in a large pot after hitting his straight on the river. The chips are semi-custom “King of the River” chips by @BR Pro Poker in which I received compliments on how nice they were. I will post some better pics of them at the end of the post.
I’ve seen some threads about this topic floating around so I figured I’d offer up my experience. As a disclaimer, my friends are hobbyists by nature. We all play video games and have prior experience playing competitive Pokemon and Magic the Gathering. We will typically participate in each others competitive hobbies if made accessible to the group. The guys have known about my involvement with Poker since I started a couple years ago. They often would ask how things were going in the poker streets and I've even shared some hand histories with them over drinks.
The door opened when my friend played some wacky multideck, wild card, 7 of spades takes all variant of family game night poker with his mom and dad. When the boys converged to go on a beach weekend, he actually brought the decks with him and suggested we all play. I obliged and played the suggested variant but introduced score keeping with some cheap poker chips I had laying around the house (pre-poker/chipping days). Before you knew it, I had all four guys playing hold'em with one deck and keeping track of "re-buys". Believe it or not, you can play poker competitively without money being involved! We would just keep track of how many times someone would have to refresh their stack after busting, mixed in some drinking, and before you knew it I was enjoying pretty ridiculous poker with my non-poker friends! We also made it so the person with the most re-buys would get the first round of drinks at the bar and the one with the least would get the master bedroom at the air bnb. Introducing some friendly stakes that is not money makes it a lot more fun for your non-gambling friends. I had them playing Pineapple, Omaha, and Hold'em.
A couple other things I noticed is that they will love taking hands off of the "pro" at the table. They also wont fold and showdown with awful hands. There is lots of bluffing and ball busting, slow rolling for sure. I actually love poker so much that I enjoyed this format a lot. Its a great game and is just often gate kept by money. You hear lots of stories about how families used to play 5 card stud for pennies and stuff, so it makes you remember its a game first. As a side note, I also taught my 10 year old daughter 5 card stud and Omaha with the same re-buy score keeping system and she loved it!
If you've made it this far, you deserve some chip Pr0n, so here is my new set of semi-customs from BRPro Poker!
Yes, this is in fact a photo of one of my non-poker friend raking in a large pot after hitting his straight on the river. The chips are semi-custom “King of the River” chips by @BR Pro Poker in which I received compliments on how nice they were. I will post some better pics of them at the end of the post.
I’ve seen some threads about this topic floating around so I figured I’d offer up my experience. As a disclaimer, my friends are hobbyists by nature. We all play video games and have prior experience playing competitive Pokemon and Magic the Gathering. We will typically participate in each others competitive hobbies if made accessible to the group. The guys have known about my involvement with Poker since I started a couple years ago. They often would ask how things were going in the poker streets and I've even shared some hand histories with them over drinks.
The door opened when my friend played some wacky multideck, wild card, 7 of spades takes all variant of family game night poker with his mom and dad. When the boys converged to go on a beach weekend, he actually brought the decks with him and suggested we all play. I obliged and played the suggested variant but introduced score keeping with some cheap poker chips I had laying around the house (pre-poker/chipping days). Before you knew it, I had all four guys playing hold'em with one deck and keeping track of "re-buys". Believe it or not, you can play poker competitively without money being involved! We would just keep track of how many times someone would have to refresh their stack after busting, mixed in some drinking, and before you knew it I was enjoying pretty ridiculous poker with my non-poker friends! We also made it so the person with the most re-buys would get the first round of drinks at the bar and the one with the least would get the master bedroom at the air bnb. Introducing some friendly stakes that is not money makes it a lot more fun for your non-gambling friends. I had them playing Pineapple, Omaha, and Hold'em.
A couple other things I noticed is that they will love taking hands off of the "pro" at the table. They also wont fold and showdown with awful hands. There is lots of bluffing and ball busting, slow rolling for sure. I actually love poker so much that I enjoyed this format a lot. Its a great game and is just often gate kept by money. You hear lots of stories about how families used to play 5 card stud for pennies and stuff, so it makes you remember its a game first. As a side note, I also taught my 10 year old daughter 5 card stud and Omaha with the same re-buy score keeping system and she loved it!
If you've made it this far, you deserve some chip Pr0n, so here is my new set of semi-customs from BRPro Poker!
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