OK, so I'm just venting (feel free to ignore if you aren't interested).
I'm playing at a neighbors house tonight, and he's a regular to my game. He's a real nice guy, plays fairly solid poker, and I enjoy him coming over.
A while back (before I knew him well), I heard about his game being fun, and I scored an invite. He has an amazing game room and bar, and the people that played his game were a ton of fun. However, it was also one of the worst run tournaments I've ever seen. He had very little organization, and even had asked for my advice prior to the tournament (but didn't follow it). During the tournament, I had to pull an audible (at the hosts request) and started running the tournament anyways (once we had one table with 9 players and one with 5 players). I handled table rebalancing and acted as the TD when people had rule debates ensue. In the end, I was there for the company, the food, and the cash game.
I posted about this game a while back, and many other people that play both our games have agreed with me that the structure and organization suck! However, he only hosts once every 6 months, and they just like getting together with this particular group of guys, so they suck it up. I suppose I'm in that camp too...
When I discussed this with several of the players attending, they suggested I casually offer up to help with some of the logistics, payout sheets (mass confusion at his last game, where he deducted costs of food and drink from the prize pool, but wasn't sure how many players had actually played or how much the food cost, and had no idea what to give for payouts); and I offered tourney and cash chips all organized, (in lieu of his horrible starting stacks of dice chips-and no separate cash set).
....He "casually" declined my offer to help with tonight's game. Hrmmph!
When I play certain bar games, I'll bring the chips and help run the game (when I attend) and people really appreciate it. Why is he being so damn stubborn?
It's only a $35 tourney, and food and beverage costs are being deducted from that, so I'm coping by telling myself it's a $35 donation for food/hosting, and I'll just do like I did last time, the second the cash game is about to start, I'll donk off my dice chips to my favorite table-mate and go run the cash game (I'm bringing my damn cash chips anyway)!
end rant
#lovetheguysandsetupbutnotthepokerz
I'm playing at a neighbors house tonight, and he's a regular to my game. He's a real nice guy, plays fairly solid poker, and I enjoy him coming over.
A while back (before I knew him well), I heard about his game being fun, and I scored an invite. He has an amazing game room and bar, and the people that played his game were a ton of fun. However, it was also one of the worst run tournaments I've ever seen. He had very little organization, and even had asked for my advice prior to the tournament (but didn't follow it). During the tournament, I had to pull an audible (at the hosts request) and started running the tournament anyways (once we had one table with 9 players and one with 5 players). I handled table rebalancing and acted as the TD when people had rule debates ensue. In the end, I was there for the company, the food, and the cash game.
I posted about this game a while back, and many other people that play both our games have agreed with me that the structure and organization suck! However, he only hosts once every 6 months, and they just like getting together with this particular group of guys, so they suck it up. I suppose I'm in that camp too...
When I discussed this with several of the players attending, they suggested I casually offer up to help with some of the logistics, payout sheets (mass confusion at his last game, where he deducted costs of food and drink from the prize pool, but wasn't sure how many players had actually played or how much the food cost, and had no idea what to give for payouts); and I offered tourney and cash chips all organized, (in lieu of his horrible starting stacks of dice chips-and no separate cash set).
....He "casually" declined my offer to help with tonight's game. Hrmmph!
When I play certain bar games, I'll bring the chips and help run the game (when I attend) and people really appreciate it. Why is he being so damn stubborn?
It's only a $35 tourney, and food and beverage costs are being deducted from that, so I'm coping by telling myself it's a $35 donation for food/hosting, and I'll just do like I did last time, the second the cash game is about to start, I'll donk off my dice chips to my favorite table-mate and go run the cash game (I'm bringing my damn cash chips anyway)!
end rant
#lovetheguysandsetupbutnotthepokerz