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[PastaTKE]

Looking at doing a Friday night home poker game 6pm - mIdnight ish.

Was thinking of doing a tourney followed by a small stakes cash game. But I was also thinking I can do 2 tourneys maybe start with a turbo then do a longer tourney to end the night. or maybe do a cash game as players come to the game and then have a hard stop and start the tourney.

So

Turbo Tourney followed by Tourney?

Tourney then Cash?

Cash then tourney?

 

[BGinGA]

Single table, six-hour window? I'd do a two-hour-max turbo, followed by 4-hour main.

Perhaps even better would be to run two quick 1-hour events back-to-back (stopping each when heads-up with a percentage chop) then the main event. Keeps everybody pretty much occupied for the first four hours of the evening; players start leaving around 10-10:30 (probably wouldn't have enough player for a cash game until almost 11pm)..

Alternative is 3.5-4.0 hour tourney followed by cash game (which will start about 2.5 hours into the evening as players drop out of the tournament). Players leave the cash game whenever they want.

 

[PastaTKE]

I think I am leaning towards the 1hr turbo and then 3-4 hour main.

I like to play cash but My only concern is with the transition from an ongoing tourney to a cash game. I have a 2nd table and chips, but not sure if I want to let others set up the cash game if I am still in the tourney.

That's why I was thinking of starting with a cash game from like 6pm to 8pm with a hard stop and then doing a main at 8pm.

 

[BGinGA]

It has been my experience that trying to stop an ongoing cash game to start a tournament is a much harder endeavor than starting up a cash game as players drop out of a tourney.

When you stop a cash game in progress, nobody is happy. The losers don't like it, and neither do the winners. One group wants to get their money back, and the other wants to keep earning. Stopping it is usually a lose-lose situation.

 

[PastaTKE]

Good point I am still polling my group to figure out a good

It has been my experience that trying to stop an ongoing cash game to start a tournament is a much harder endeavor than starting up a cash game as players drop out of a tourney.



When you stop a cash game in progress, nobody is happy. The losers don't like it, and neither do the winners. One group wants to get their money back, and the other wants to keep earning. Stopping it is usually a lose-lose situation.

Good point I am still polling my group to figure out what to do so I will defenitly bring that point up.

 

[Poker Zombie]

Tournament followed by cash. Less downtime, and 1 hr turbos aren't really that much fun - and downright terrible if your cards are cold.

If you can get your players to buy-in in a standardized amount, you can set up the chips ahead of time in chip (coin) tubes (or ziplock bags if you're cheap). This minimizes the difficulties of cash game buy-ins.

 

[rjbf65]

If only enough players for one table show up I usually prefer just going straight to cash game.

If there is food planned as part of the evening we've done a cheap tourney ($5 or $10) and eat after the tourney and before the cash game. One night we had rib eyes to grill and had a rule that the first player who busts has to man the grill until others busted. Generally the final 2 or 3 players will chop the money because they want to eat and get the cash game going. I like the food aspect as it seems to keep it more of a social event. It also gave guys a reason to stick around vs leaving if they lost early which hurts the round 2 part of the evening.