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Whoa.. blast from the past! I ended up dumping a high hand all together. Got sick of managing a separate pot all the time and it just didn't really seem to be a draw for anyone. I initially did it to keep people coming back. But by stepping up my chips, table, chairs, food, and all the other...

Major social fail on the friends part. That's just kind of a dick move all around. I would definitely feel used and pretty pissed. You have to decided if the relationship is worth the effort of confrontation and resolution. If it is, then a conversation about his actions and how they impact...

I did two decks with a dedicated player dealer last night and it was AWESOME! So many more hands when you're not waiting for shuffling. Thanks for the idea!

Nice chips! Now.... do you have a hot dog roller?

This is a great idea. I might try to the two deck rotation. It also removes some of the potential feeling of "is this guy juicing the deck?"

I've never had a dedicated non-playing dealer. However, there are 2 guys in my core group that actually ENJOY being the dedicated dealer when they play. So usually I have one of them be the dedicated dealer and they deal AND play all night. There's a couple of reasons this is good: 1. These guys...

I think however you want to set up your chips is all personal preference and totally dependent on the number of chips you have to put out, etc. etc. As far as play goes, your setup will be fine. When I was doing .25/.50 cash games I always did the following: 16 x 25c 16 x $1 Total = $20 (min...

Yeah this is a good point. That rule is a little bastardized. It used to say just to give a heads up 30 minutes or so beforehand - then everyone just started measuring it in orbits - so now it's a weird hybrid rule that has both and doesn't make much sense. I agree - I like to have players see...

I just made a website that details our rules. Most of which I cobbled together from other posts on this forum - some we made up in the past year or so and added. Ours is a cash game only - as I hate tournaments, and once you're out of the tournament I don't have anything else for people to do in...

Just 2x the BB

I'm hosting a pretty solid home game and lately there have been a lot of straddle bets. It's a straight forward .25/.50 cash game and there is one player in particular who basically straddles every time he's in position to. This clearly bugs the person who's big blind. Some shake their heads and...

I really like this structure. You get the immediate satisfaction, but maintain a rollover. I do think a rake every flop might make more sense than the way we have been doing it. However I have been devilishly waiting for someone to NOT contribute to the HH kitty one night and then win it and get...

Love the pic! That's a great idea. I guess I was overthinking how to keep/organize the rake.

Wow.. I LOVE this idea. How do you rake the chips for it? Do you just set them aside? have a rake box? cigar box that follows the cards around?

So that one we have already resolved with my crew. We decided you have to use at least one of your hole cards and there has to be a clear single winner. I need to add that clarification to the rules as well. The split pots is a good question. I think we figured that was such an edge case we...

I need input from this amazing think-tank of enthusiasts. I run a small cash game of .25/.50 blinds. We like to run a High Hand Kitty for 5 bucks each at the beginning of the night. If no one wins it - then we roll it over to the next night. Here's the current rules we have for this: High Hand...

Those look awesome. Just what I needed to see - this is the route I'm going. Thanks for posting the pic!

Just tested this on my sample set of Milanos and you're right. Super easy. Now if gearlabels would just get their site back up and functioning I could get some custom labels made. :D

Obviously.. I can't count. Apache offers the same 7 colors.

I'm noticing it's nearly impossible to find all available milano colors for blank chips that I could label myself. Apache only offers 6 of the 12 possible colors in the Milano set line. I'm wondering if anyone knows how or where I can find the other colors available in just blanks. Or if I'm...