I'm trying to get a stable monthly game going.
We kicked off right before the pandemic and I learned a lot from that night...the biggest lesson being, a nice table is the biggest upgrade you can make! Sorry, but chips are a distant 2nd place. So over the pandemic months I bought a solid table. I've gotten compliments on it, so I think it's working out good.
The chipset is tougher. I'm hesitant to pull the trigger on anything because my monthly game seems unstable. The first game, once the SARS-CoV-2 numbers got low, I had to reschedule due to not being able to get enough people. The rescheduled game was good, got a full table (9 for my table...8 + me). Second game I was looking at 8-handed and had a guy bail in the last hour, looking at 7, but my neighbor ended up being around so he jumped in bringing it back to 8. This third upcoming game I got to 9 but it was a bit depressing. I invited something like 18 people and it took a long time to get 8 others to respond. We'll see how it goes this Friday.
The problem with a chipset is it locks you in! We have been doing freeze-out tournaments which is what I currently prefer to play. We are doing T100s so there isn't as many chip-ups and it seems to be working OK. But will I go over to cash and drop tournies? Will I want to incorporate re-buys? Will I want to go back to the old T25s? Spending big bucks on a nice chipset locks me in, and seeing how the game isn't stable yet, I'm not sure when I should go for that upgrade.
Thoughts?
We kicked off right before the pandemic and I learned a lot from that night...the biggest lesson being, a nice table is the biggest upgrade you can make! Sorry, but chips are a distant 2nd place. So over the pandemic months I bought a solid table. I've gotten compliments on it, so I think it's working out good.
The chipset is tougher. I'm hesitant to pull the trigger on anything because my monthly game seems unstable. The first game, once the SARS-CoV-2 numbers got low, I had to reschedule due to not being able to get enough people. The rescheduled game was good, got a full table (9 for my table...8 + me). Second game I was looking at 8-handed and had a guy bail in the last hour, looking at 7, but my neighbor ended up being around so he jumped in bringing it back to 8. This third upcoming game I got to 9 but it was a bit depressing. I invited something like 18 people and it took a long time to get 8 others to respond. We'll see how it goes this Friday.
The problem with a chipset is it locks you in! We have been doing freeze-out tournaments which is what I currently prefer to play. We are doing T100s so there isn't as many chip-ups and it seems to be working OK. But will I go over to cash and drop tournies? Will I want to incorporate re-buys? Will I want to go back to the old T25s? Spending big bucks on a nice chipset locks me in, and seeing how the game isn't stable yet, I'm not sure when I should go for that upgrade.
Thoughts?