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Sorry. What do you mean by this?We also play three or four blinds usually, and even if you’re away from the table, you’re posted the entire time.
How does the buy in cap work to help you?We cap the buyin unlike you maniacs.
People that leave the table get blinded off/away.Sorry. What do you mean by this?
So we often play something like 5/10/25/50 or 10/25/50/100 or whatever. Sometimes we do three blinds, sometimes up to five…it’s all fluid based on game dynamic. We usually start 5/10/25 and grow from there.Sorry. What do you mean by this?
How does the buy in cap work to help you?
Don’t you allow unlimited add-ons?
This must be one hell of a game. I wish I could rail it.Yeah, we have a pretty strict four hour/five buy-in minimum rule…our game is bigger and we really discourage shot takers (guys who show up with only one or two buy ins). Most of our players (myself included) feel that if we’re going to risk a large amount, everyone in the game should be willing to risk a large amount as well. I realize this philosophy is not for everyone.
The rules basically are:
When you walk through the door, you have to have a minimum of five buy-ins on you, and you need to be prepared to put it in play. You also need to be prepared to play at least four hours. (If you’ve been there over four hours, you can leave when you want, but you’re still encouraged to give a 30-60 minute warning)…if you’ve been there less than four hours but have lost at least five buy-ins, you can leave whenever as well.
If you’re up (or at least down scraps) and trying to leave in under four hours, you won’t get invited back for a long while (unless it’s an emergency or something)…
We also play three or four blinds usually, and even if you’re away from the table, you’re posted the entire time.
All of this is to encourage action and to encourage people staying seated at the table. Most of the players love the game and the action. We haven’t had a hit and run issue in years. We also vet the players pretty well and are quick to not invite back those who don’t make the game better. We have a decent player pool, so we aren’t afraid to not invite someone for a while.
Lemme know if I can help further at all!! I’ve also successfully ran games as small as $5 buy-ins over the years and am happy to give any insight I can!![]()
Yes, people can buy-in for as many times as they want. Most will only lose 2-3 buy-ins before going home. At most, a single table 50NL, 100BB cash game in my house will have $500-600 in play. I've heard of capped 50NL games with over $1500 on the table and uncapped match the stack 50NL games with close to $10k on the table. It really is dependent on the group. I think if I ran it uncapped I'd personally buy-in for 200BB so that I could play more splashy, but it would definitely change the dynamic of the table.How does the buy in cap work to help you?
Don’t you allow unlimited add-ons?
What game(s) are you playing with these structures..?So we often play something like 5/10/25/50 or 10/25/50/100 or whatever. Sometimes we do three blinds, sometimes up to five…it’s all fluid based on game dynamic. We usually start 5/10/25 and grow from there.
This way more people have incentive to play in the hand, as well as to not stand up for prolonged periods of time.
This is how cash games at all stakes should be run IMO, otherwise go play tourneys.Yeah, we have a pretty strict four hour/five buy-in minimum rule…our game is bigger and we really discourage shot takers (guys who show up with only one or two buy ins). Most of our players (myself included) feel that if we’re going to risk a large amount, everyone in the game should be willing to risk a large amount as well. I realize this philosophy is not for everyone.
The rules basically are:
When you walk through the door, you have to have a minimum of five buy-ins on you, and you need to be prepared to put it in play. You also need to be prepared to play at least four hours. (If you’ve been there over four hours, you can leave when you want, but you’re still encouraged to give a 30-60 minute warning)…if you’ve been there less than four hours but have lost at least five buy-ins, you can leave whenever as well.
If you’re up (or at least down scraps) and trying to leave in under four hours, you won’t get invited back for a long while (unless it’s an emergency or something)…
We also play three or four blinds usually, and even if you’re away from the table, you’re posted the entire time.
All of this is to encourage action and to encourage people staying seated at the table. Most of the players love the game and the action. We haven’t had a hit and run issue in years. We also vet the players pretty well and are quick to not invite back those who don’t make the game better. We have a decent player pool, so we aren’t afraid to not invite someone for a while.
Lemme know if I can help further at all!! I’ve also successfully ran games as small as $5 buy-ins over the years and am happy to give any insight I can!![]()
How do you go about doing this? Just chatting people up in poker room?Personally I've given up trying to make poker players out of my best friends. Instead I just befriended other poker players. So much easier to get a good game going.
Is this NLHE or PLO? If the latter, sounds like fun!So we often play something like 5/10/25/50 or 10/25/50/100 or whatever. Sometimes we do three blinds, sometimes up to five…it’s all fluid based on game dynamic. We usually start 5/10/25 and grow from there.
This way more people have incentive to play in the hand, as well as to not stand up for prolonged periods of time.
We have almost exclusively played PLO for the past decade or so.What game(s) are you playing with these structures..?
Is this NLHE or PLO? If the latter, sounds like fun!
What do you mean 30 hours in? There's no way that a 8 handed game is lasting that long unless you have to do a short of coke every time you win a pot.We have almost exclusively played PLO for the past decade or so.
It’s a blast!! We started with three blind NLHE like two decades ago, then rxr, and finally straight PLO. It’s really incredible and such a great game. 8 max, often times gets down to 4 handed deep stacked like 30 hours in, everyone has skin in every pot…I can’t fathom a better game![]()
The idea of forcing someone to stay just because they won a pot AFTER they announced they would be leaving at a certain point sounds awful. Like you are holding them hostage. If a player says they can only stay until 10p and win a pot at 9:45, I expect to see them counting up their chips in the next 10 minutes.I would suggest making sure all the players know what a HNR is (and that it's not Cool). What about implementing a house rule that if you win a "big" pot (over $X amount), you have to stay at least Y amount of time (or Z number of orbits) afterwards - even if you had already notified everyone of your quitting time at the beginning of the session (if you can't stay longer, then don't go in). Otherwise, you have to pay every player a certain amount to buy yourself out?
(fwiw, none of the regular hosts for our groups have a rule like that, fortunately ::knocking on my head:: we have never had a problem with HNRs - just throwing out something to possibly consider...) (ETA - if/when I happen to win a good sized pot or two before I have to leave, I will typically stay a couple of orbits more, as a personal rule)
@Windwalker this sounds like your kind of game.We have almost exclusively played PLO for the past decade or so.
It’s a blast!! We started with three blind NLHE like two decades ago, then rxr, and finally straight PLO. It’s really incredible and such a great game. 8 max, often times gets down to 4 handed deep stacked like 30 hours in, everyone has skin in every pot…I can’t fathom a better game![]()
Ha, no, no illegal drugs of any kind. It doesn’t happen every game, but every couple of months the stars align and the right people get stuck and the game just keeps going.What do you mean 30 hours in? There's no way that a 8 handed game is lasting that long unless you have to do a short of coke every time you win a pot.
That's just something I personally do - even when I've already told everyone when I plan to call it at the beginning of a session, it's not a rule/SOP for any of our games (although I don't think anybody in my group(s) would care if any of our regular hosts decided to make it a house rule, especially if it was announced during the invites, before people RSVPed). If it doesn't sound reasonable or feasible, no biggie...The idea of forcing someone to stay just because they won a pot AFTER they announced they would be leaving at a certain point sounds awful. Like you are holding them hostage. If a player says they can only stay until 10p and win a pot at 9:45, I expect to see them counting up their chips in the next 10 minutes.
Uhhh... He pretty much described how a tournament is usually played. I hate tourneys because you can't leave whenever you've had enough.This is how cash games at all stakes should be run IMO, otherwise go play tourneys.
Im mainly making reference to people trying to nit it up and trying to get a double up and lock up.Uhhh... He pretty much described how a tournament is usually played. I hate tourneys because you can't leave whenever you've had enough.
Personally I've given up trying to make poker players out of my best friends. Instead I just befriended other poker players. So much easier to get a good game going.
What stakes do you play that casino/card room regs are happy to play? Also, how do you go about vetting?So much this ^^
My game really took off once I started bringing in regs I knew from KC's local casino poker rooms. There's obviously a vetting process, but I know from playing with so many of the regs who would be a good fit. Now, it's not uncommon for most of them to text me to see if I'm hosting a game instead of me texting to check on their availability. Another thing I enjoyed about this group is most of us grew close in recent years to the point where we've either traveled together to poker tourneys, whether it's the WSOP, WSOP-C or RunGood events, or even spontaneous group trips to Vegas just to play poker.
One of the players said it best -- I'm paraphrasing -- when he described my game as most home games are among friends who occassionally play poker, but my home game is filled with poker players who eventually became good friends. We all looked around the table and nodded our heads. Such a fitting description.
But there was a flip side to this approach: Some in the original home game group felt left out because of the change of direction.
I see your point, I just don't necessarily agree with it.Im mainly making reference to people trying to nit it up and trying to get a double up and lock up.
Id prefer to play smaller stakes and have with everyone splashing around and having fun than play against rocks/nits.
At the end of the day we are talking about home games against people you know or someone who knows someone in the game.
I'm going to say some un-favorable things.
3) Capping the buy in
Matched stack games for your home game for 90% of this forum is a bad idea