JMGill12
Sitting Out
Have a situation that is new to me, want to make sure that I am reasoning how to do this appropriately.
I'm hosting a no-limit hold'em game tonight, 6 confirmed with 2 maybes. Stakes are $1/1 (1), dead big blind ante with a max initial buy-in of $200 and match the stack add-ons at any time. I have more than enough whites ($1), reds ($5), greens ($25), and blacks ($100) to faciliate that game. It runs largely cashless, and we settle up on venmo/zelle afterwards without any issue. I don't think we'll have more than $2,000 on the table at any point tonight, and almost certainly less than $3,000. My set will cover this without issue, and I'm not concerned about hosting in any aspect for this game.
My buddy has been asked by his internship to learn how to play seven card stud. Since I have played a little bit of stud, I offered to help him learn by playing side-game stud. I have a number of both wide and bridge-sized Kems, so the idea is that my poker-sized Arrows will be the double-deck for the main game, and I'll just use a single-deck of bridge (Golf V II, Kem, it doesn't look a thing like Arrows) to deal 0.25/0.50 stud with a 0.10 ante and 0.10 bring in.
This is where my concerns start.
First of all, I only have two other denoms that could work for this game. I have 9x purple chips that I think are going to have to function as $0.10 chips, and about 60 or so blues that I think can work as $0.25 chips. Theoretically, since this figures to be a two-player side game, 9x chips is exactly enough that the two of can make change with the $0.25 chips. Obviously, this constraint is partly why the ante and the bring-in are the same, but also I don't want to split too much of my attention away from hosting and playing in the much larger game for this smaller, heads-up stud game. I don't really see a way around this, unless somebody has thoughts.
Second, I don't know if I need to do anything special for running book/stacks for stud. My friend and I both usually cover the rest of the game by about the 2-hour mark, so I don't know if it would be appropriate enough to be worth the hassel for us to buy in for $20 on the side for 40 big bets and keep that entirely seperate from the hold-em game. If there is any downside to playing such a tiny limit game on the side off our main stacks (outside of the neglibable ammounts of going north/south), please let me know. My buddy and I are the two big winners in the game, I don't have any sort of expectations of us going 300 bets on the uncapped river, if we go more than 6 bets before the person who is board-locked by the other just calls I'll be stunned.
Third, if anybody has done this before, I think that my set-up is going to be for us to sit next to each other on the corner of a rectangular table and play in the corner. If not this, then I'll grab a very small table and play behind us with both of us sitting on the same side of the table and spinning around to play our seperate hands. Since we're heads up, I can deal out the up-cards in an L-shape and solitaire-style with one card on top of the others and the top 1/3rd of each showing to be as space-efficient as possible. Obviously if we're playing with dedicated stacks
Any other thoughts or ideas would be appreciated, thank you!
I'm hosting a no-limit hold'em game tonight, 6 confirmed with 2 maybes. Stakes are $1/1 (1), dead big blind ante with a max initial buy-in of $200 and match the stack add-ons at any time. I have more than enough whites ($1), reds ($5), greens ($25), and blacks ($100) to faciliate that game. It runs largely cashless, and we settle up on venmo/zelle afterwards without any issue. I don't think we'll have more than $2,000 on the table at any point tonight, and almost certainly less than $3,000. My set will cover this without issue, and I'm not concerned about hosting in any aspect for this game.
My buddy has been asked by his internship to learn how to play seven card stud. Since I have played a little bit of stud, I offered to help him learn by playing side-game stud. I have a number of both wide and bridge-sized Kems, so the idea is that my poker-sized Arrows will be the double-deck for the main game, and I'll just use a single-deck of bridge (Golf V II, Kem, it doesn't look a thing like Arrows) to deal 0.25/0.50 stud with a 0.10 ante and 0.10 bring in.
This is where my concerns start.
First of all, I only have two other denoms that could work for this game. I have 9x purple chips that I think are going to have to function as $0.10 chips, and about 60 or so blues that I think can work as $0.25 chips. Theoretically, since this figures to be a two-player side game, 9x chips is exactly enough that the two of can make change with the $0.25 chips. Obviously, this constraint is partly why the ante and the bring-in are the same, but also I don't want to split too much of my attention away from hosting and playing in the much larger game for this smaller, heads-up stud game. I don't really see a way around this, unless somebody has thoughts.
Second, I don't know if I need to do anything special for running book/stacks for stud. My friend and I both usually cover the rest of the game by about the 2-hour mark, so I don't know if it would be appropriate enough to be worth the hassel for us to buy in for $20 on the side for 40 big bets and keep that entirely seperate from the hold-em game. If there is any downside to playing such a tiny limit game on the side off our main stacks (outside of the neglibable ammounts of going north/south), please let me know. My buddy and I are the two big winners in the game, I don't have any sort of expectations of us going 300 bets on the uncapped river, if we go more than 6 bets before the person who is board-locked by the other just calls I'll be stunned.
Third, if anybody has done this before, I think that my set-up is going to be for us to sit next to each other on the corner of a rectangular table and play in the corner. If not this, then I'll grab a very small table and play behind us with both of us sitting on the same side of the table and spinning around to play our seperate hands. Since we're heads up, I can deal out the up-cards in an L-shape and solitaire-style with one card on top of the others and the top 1/3rd of each showing to be as space-efficient as possible. Obviously if we're playing with dedicated stacks
Any other thoughts or ideas would be appreciated, thank you!
