Poker Zombie
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...that said, I do partake in 1-2 hot dogs a year, and think a hot dog roller adds an extra level to any game. Below "Kegerator" but above "Chips and Dip".
Blinds Are Up! is my go-to app when I'm not hosting at my place. Easily the best Android one out there.
it can live without hot dogs.
Another word for workhorse, or high frequency usage.Sorry, I don't understand your question. Wtf is a "slave chip"?
You got guts saying that at a time like this, I'll give you that.
+1. While it's missing a few things (eg. a 1 minute warning before the end of a level would be nice), it has all of the basic features and works well.
Try writing to the dev.
I hope that's not the devilWrote to the dev and within a few months the feature was added
Someone peeing first may get a raw hot dog after it was reloaded, thinking it has been warming for the last hour.
Wow. Thanks everyone for the responses! I’ve learned a lot from all this and am looking forward to hosting my first tourney soon. I will post the outcome and lessons learned. Thanks again.
Also, unless Minnesota is much different from Upstate New York, there are almost surely inexpensive tournaments which occur at some social halls (VFW, American Legion, firehouses, etc.) near you. These are useful for getting a feel for what to do... and not to do.
Another tip to avoid stragglers: bonus chips for arriving early! This has become standard practice around here and it helps tremendously. For instance, the players must arrive 15-30 minutes before the scheduled start to get about 10% more chips as a bonus. Then start exactly on time. Basically everybody gets there early and gets the bonus, so everyone still has an equal starting stack and the game magically starts on time.
So what is the cuttoff? When they park their car? When they walk through the door? When they hand you their cash?The reason to be inflexible about the cutoff time for the bonus is otherwise you get a ton of pleading and the time just slips and slips...
“But it’s 7:33, I only missed by 3 minutes!” they’ll say... So what do you tell the next guy at 7:34, and 7:37, and so on? “But I’m only 3 minutes later than Bill and you gave it to him!”
So what is the cuttoff? When they park their car? When they walk through the door? When they hand you their cash?
I like that idea might use thatBasic Guidelines:
1. Optimal BB is 100-200
2. Consistent bind level transitions, for beginner-to-intermediates I suggest blind levels like 25/50 then 25/75 then 50/100 and so on
3. Optimal number of chips per player, 30 to 50
4. Colour-up armaments should be using the chip that will be available all the time and become your slaves toward the endgame, not gradually as it reduces set versatility and you would end up buying more chips than you actually really need.
We don’t do rebuys—yet another option, one I dislike as it encourages BINGO play and also creates some unfairness for the lesser-rolled players. But we do now allow a player who busts before the break to take the add-on as a “short” rebuy in effect. Again, this seems to help keep the group happy.
1 player finished first, but only cashed for less than third place money.
His multiple re-buys cut into his overall winnings.Am I missing something? How does that happen?