jasonxrowland
New Member
Hi, I'm Jason.
I've spent hours and hours on this forum trying to figure out "the perfect" tournament structure, and "the perfect" poker chip set. Ha! This is my first post even though i've been a reader for about a year.
About 20 years ago, My wife and I hosted free/no-cash poker tournaments as a way to get to know our neighbors while our children were very young. This was during the party poker craze where it was on TV all the time. We did this every month for several years. At our peak, we had 3 tables going inside our small duplex. Playing without money is quite a different experience than playing with cash but such a fun way to to host a party. Life happened, we moved, and stopped hosting poker games. When we moved again we sold our 3,000 dice poker chips.
Fast forward and my children were much older and our family enjoyed playing games together. They would sometimes bring their friends, but there really aren't many games that can handle more than 6 people and are also fun. I suggested we try poker. I used white/red/blue lego bricks as poker chips for that first game and I taught them how to play. It was a huge success. After that night, I bought a small set of maybe 600 poker chips. Poker became the game my family usually wanted to play. We have been regularly playing with my adult children and their friends for a few years now. This last weekend we hosted a free-poker party for people in our church and i was asked if we could do this every month.
Thanks for reading!
I've spent hours and hours on this forum trying to figure out "the perfect" tournament structure, and "the perfect" poker chip set. Ha! This is my first post even though i've been a reader for about a year.
About 20 years ago, My wife and I hosted free/no-cash poker tournaments as a way to get to know our neighbors while our children were very young. This was during the party poker craze where it was on TV all the time. We did this every month for several years. At our peak, we had 3 tables going inside our small duplex. Playing without money is quite a different experience than playing with cash but such a fun way to to host a party. Life happened, we moved, and stopped hosting poker games. When we moved again we sold our 3,000 dice poker chips.
Fast forward and my children were much older and our family enjoyed playing games together. They would sometimes bring their friends, but there really aren't many games that can handle more than 6 people and are also fun. I suggested we try poker. I used white/red/blue lego bricks as poker chips for that first game and I taught them how to play. It was a huge success. After that night, I bought a small set of maybe 600 poker chips. Poker became the game my family usually wanted to play. We have been regularly playing with my adult children and their friends for a few years now. This last weekend we hosted a free-poker party for people in our church and i was asked if we could do this every month.
Thanks for reading!
