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Private games hosted outside casinos, typically in a host's residence. Table rules, stakes, and pay quality will vary wildly. Questions may involve hosting, blind structures, game styles, amateur tourney moderation.

Private games hosted outside casinos, typically in a host's residence. Table rules, stakes, and pay quality will vary wildly. Questions may involve hosting, blind structures, game styles, amateur tourney moderation.

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How to deal with a table that always calls?

In my no-limit Texas hold'em home games, players are allotted approximately $2500 worth of chips. The starting blinds are $5/$10, and are increased everytime the button has moved around the whole table. The increment scheme is first go from $5/$10…
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Does a bounty chop?

In a poker tournament with a bounty on a player, the all in player was against two others at the table. The two remaining players chopped the hand and beat the all in. We split the side pot and the main pot, but weren't sure how to credit 'who' got…
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Are There Good Points-Based Ways To Handicap Home Poker Tournaments?

Currently I am keeping points for my home tourney by assigning the following points: 1 point for play 1 point for each player knocked out before you 1 point for cashing 1 point for heads up 1 point for win. So a 6 player, 2 payout game would be:…
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Burning cards in home games

Do you burn cards in home/friendly games? As far as I am concerned, it's pretty much just a complication with no merits to us. There's no risk for the cards to be marked and the stacks we play with are minimal anyway.
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Talking during a hand

I am a newbie and would like clarification on something if that is possible. It relates to a "house SNG". There were 3 players left and since the first 2 would get paid, it meant we were on the bubble. I was the short stack on the button with less…
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At what point does poor etiquette turn into cheating?

Similar to How do you deal with severe violations of table etiquette, I ran into a situation at a recent game that threw me. A player I was not familiar with kept doing really odd things. For example: He mucked his cards, with his chips, then…
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Is there an optimum formula for deciding chip denominations?

I play in a $1-2 NL game where they use chips in values of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50. I feel like it's tedious to try to keep track of the values of 6 different colors of chips. If you have a 5 and a 20 chip, the 10 really seems quite pointless. I'd…
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Teach poker in a home game

I am a huge poker fan. I played on the Internet for a long time, before my free time completely ran out, however my love for poker didn't and I still enjoy playing the game, and I feel that the best bet to keep playing is in a home game. However,…
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Risky home game hand, right or wrong move?

I played a home game with some friends tournament-style, and I made a risky all-in move I am thinking twice about. effective stack is ~500, my opponent covers me by 40. blinds are 2/5. Preflop action folds to me on the small blind and I look down…
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Is there an app for managing invitations to a home poker game?

I would like to automate the following process: I send out invitations to our regular players for a poker tournament with a fixed time and place, along with an RSVP deadline. A player either: declines the invitation; or conditionally (*) accepts…
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Handling "running it twice" situations

When players agree to "run it twice" (or more times), should any additional cards be burned before each replayed step? Also, shouldn't the cards turned in the first run be shuffled back into the deck before flipping the next one? I understand it…
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Tough spot with Aces against regular, NLHE-6max

6max Nlhe, home-game, blinds are 0.5/1, deepstack (everyone approximately ~350 stack) Villain is a very experienced and regular winning player, very tricky, capable of unorthodox plays as well. We have played around 100 hands during the night. We…
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How can I gain an advantage in a weak no-limit Omaha Hi-Lo game?

I know that Omaha Hi-Lo is normally played for limit or pot-limit stakes and I think I remember there being specific reasons, but I play in a home game that occasionally plays Omaha Hi-Lo at no-limit stakes. The people in the game are not very…
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Best method to mark the numbers onto poker chips?

My personal set of poker chips is a typical cheap plastic set with solid colours. I would like to mark numbers on them instead of memorising their values. What is the best method of writing the numbers? Has anyone tried this before? Some options I…
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Tank on river when last to act and all bets in

I have this happen in my home game. The guy is a weak so I don't want to kick him out. Guy gets called on the river and opponent has shown his cards. The guy will tank showing or mucking his cards just to slow down the game. How long do you give…
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