Last night I hosted my first home cash game for 8 players (on my boat.) I was concerned whether everyone would have a good time, but after a bit of a slow start it ended up being a lot of fun. The stakes were .05/.10 since there were many rusty or inexperienced players. I used Jumer’s secondary $5s and Hollywood secondary $25s and $100s as nickels, quarters and dollars. This seemed to work well and the players loved the chips. My starting stacks were 15/17/5 with rebuys using more higher denoms. With 15 buy-ins, the total chips in play by the end were 140/160/103. This seemed to work well and everyone enjoyed raking pots and stacking chips. The cards were two decks of Modiano Elements and the table a folding Barrington.
I didn’t bother with nickels and dimes for cashing out and only used whole dollars. I had everyone count out their whole dollar amount and then I had a chip race with the remaining 5s to award the remaining two dollar bills.
I sprung for the pizza and had folks bring their own drinks. I’m hoping everyone had a good enough time to want to come back for more!
My thanks to everyone at PCF – I’ve learned a lot and spent far too much on chips.
I didn’t bother with nickels and dimes for cashing out and only used whole dollars. I had everyone count out their whole dollar amount and then I had a chip race with the remaining 5s to award the remaining two dollar bills.
I sprung for the pizza and had folks bring their own drinks. I’m hoping everyone had a good enough time to want to come back for more!
My thanks to everyone at PCF – I’ve learned a lot and spent far too much on chips.
