wan.7
High Hand
Hi guys, looking for a bit of wisdom from you more experienced home game players.
I host a once a month game, tournament style with some friends. All very casual and friendly with a low buy in, it's about having fun more than trying to win (but it's still fun to win).
Anyway, it's usually better 4-8 players, each player starts with 2000 worth of chips. Then blinds progress as follows:
5/10
10/25
25/50
50/100
100/200
200/500 (cap)
Blinds go up every hour.
The trouble is, at the start of the game money moves back and forth, people go up and down but the money always tends to move around pretty evenly so that by the time blinds get to 500 all players are still in and everyone is still sitting on around their 2000 buy in. So then the last 30 mins or so of the games decides the winner moreso than the 4 or 5 hours preceding it. Once the blinds are 1/4 of your buy in, seeing 4 flops that go nowhere sees you out of the game, and it's rarely in spectacular fashion, it's quite often boring, going all-in pre-flop just because you have to and it's all just luck.
Am I doing something wrong with the blinds? Should I have more/less chips?? Should a change the times of blinds?
Trying to make it a bit more exciting, what can I do?
Thanks, Matthew.
I host a once a month game, tournament style with some friends. All very casual and friendly with a low buy in, it's about having fun more than trying to win (but it's still fun to win).
Anyway, it's usually better 4-8 players, each player starts with 2000 worth of chips. Then blinds progress as follows:
5/10
10/25
25/50
50/100
100/200
200/500 (cap)
Blinds go up every hour.
The trouble is, at the start of the game money moves back and forth, people go up and down but the money always tends to move around pretty evenly so that by the time blinds get to 500 all players are still in and everyone is still sitting on around their 2000 buy in. So then the last 30 mins or so of the games decides the winner moreso than the 4 or 5 hours preceding it. Once the blinds are 1/4 of your buy in, seeing 4 flops that go nowhere sees you out of the game, and it's rarely in spectacular fashion, it's quite often boring, going all-in pre-flop just because you have to and it's all just luck.
Am I doing something wrong with the blinds? Should I have more/less chips?? Should a change the times of blinds?
Trying to make it a bit more exciting, what can I do?
Thanks, Matthew.