Ok so the chips are on the table, the beers are in the fridge you have your finest pair of all black sunglasses on stand by… so, is that all the bases covered for your home poker game? Well no is the simple answer. Don’t worry though this article gives you all the info to help you on your way to having a fine night of poker.

 

What’s the Buy-In and what are the Stakes?

 

Ok this is the most important part of the whole evening. Get this wrong, and the night may turn sour very fast. Make sure you set your limits before you start and don’t change them. Keep it friendly; remember the idea is to have a good night not to make it so your mate Terry can’t pay the rent.

Set the blinds, amount of re-buys, and structure (limit, no-limit or pot limit) before you start. Make sure everyone is happy.

 

Equipment

 

This sounds easy but trust me something will be forgotten if you don’t double check everything. You will at least need all the items on this list to make sure you have a decent game.

 

Cards x 2 decks minimum (one always gets damaged)

Pastillion x1 this goes at the bottom of the deck so no one knows or can see the bottom card.

 

Dealer button x 1

 

Chips: Now people if you have 8 players and every one is getting 1000 in starting value stacks. Break it down to 5×100 6×50 8×25 = 19 chips each or 152 chips in total. Most sets you can buy have at least 200 chips as a minimum and usually 4-5 colours. If you are having a re-buy game mark one colour as the same value as the same total as your starting stack of a 1000. This will greatly reduce the number of chips you need to play a re-buy.

 

Keep your players happy – if you want to be seen as a good host, make sure that you keep the players happy with a few pizzas and a good stock of beer. As a host collect a small flat fee from each player at the start of the night to cover food and drinks and this is a good way to keep everyone happy while not shelling out too much of your own money. Remember that a happy poker player will often spend (lose hopefully) more money than an unhappy one.

 

Well I hope this help you host the perfect home game, until my next update take care of your selves and take care of you cash by having a look some of our trusted sites and win some money @ http://www.bethepokershark.com/where2play.html

 

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By: Be The Poker Shark

Welcome to the site for in-person free to enter poker tournaments in the Harrisburg area!

Do your really need an excuse to go to The Coliseum?  Now you have one.  Come on by and play Poker. . Directions click here

 

Your invited to to poker league tryouts every Tuesday & Wednesday at 8PM.

Points are based on the number of players entered in each weekly game, so come on in and make a name for yourself

 

717 Poker Tour runs a weekly poker game at Coliseum Camp Hill, every Tuesday night at 8PM.

Points can be earned each week and are posted on our leader board page. Points are based on the number of players entered in each weekly game, so come on in and make a name for yourself

 

The top 24 in points on Thursday will qualify to play in the Season 1 Championship Event.  Season 1 Championship Tournament will be Saturday 12/6/2008 game starts at 1PM.

 

 Coliseum tournament details:

 Starting stack:  700 chips

 Red    5 – 4 

 

Blue    10 – 3

 

Green  50 – 5

 

Black  100 -4

 http://717pokertour.com/

 

Welcome to the site for in-person free to enter poker tournaments in the Harrisburg area!

Do your really need an excuse to go to The Coliseum?  Now you have one.  Come on by and play Poker. . Directions click here

 

Your invited to to poker league tryouts every Tuesday & Wednesday at 8PM.

Points are based on the number of players entered in each weekly game, so come on in and make a name for yourself

By: 717 Poker Tour

Recently the designers of poker edge announced that their controversial tracking software of the same name now included support for tournaments. What this means is that when a player on their database plays in a tournament those statistics can now be analyzed separately as tournaments stats should be.

These are the kind of statistics that both Tournament Indicator and Poker Edge collect: VPIP%, PFR%, WSD%, and WSDW%. Tournament Indicator also adds a statistic called WIN% which means the percentage of hands won that may or may not have ended in a showdown.

Now what exactly do these statistics represent when you are playing somebody at a table and looking up their stats? Let’s say your opponent shows 35% VPIP and 35% PFR on Tournament indicator and poker edge which is generally quite loose and very aggressive for tournament play. Well the problem with that kind of general information is that it actually doesn’t relate to tournament play in the sense of it being valuable to you. For instance, that information was likely collected during a period when that player was short stacked, and ultra aggressive was his best strategy. In fact, general tournament statistics like that can range from questionable to downright misleading. The real value in tournament statistics is what has happened recently, unless you can qualify those actions with a players’ stack or mzone situation.

If you do happen see tournament statistics on Poker Edge, (that is a slim database as the software is mainly for ring games), you will find general data that is much the same as in the Tournament Indicator main stats window. However, Tournament Indicator goes much more in depth as you can simply click on the players name and get a history of that player’s stats divided into mzone categories that player was in when those stats were collected.

If we go back to this same example, we could find that the player with a 35PFR% actually raised only 10 hands altogether, 6 of which were from his red mzone (desperate stack) and that violently skewed his information. Omitting that, the rest of his stats indicate he is a very tight player. Now don’t you think that is more relevant? Not only is it relevant, it demands analysis that Poker-Edge simply cannot provide.

Since Tournament Indicator breaks down opponent statistics into mzones, you are able to rationalize your opponent’s strategies in one easy glance. Now it is true you won’t often run into the same player from tournament to tournament, but if you make it deep, chances are you will be seated at a table with several players you have already crossed paths with in the same tournament! You will also likely have information on them from different mzones as well.

There are some additional technical differences between the two that may help your decision making. The main difference being that Poker-edge is a screen scraper which means you don’t have ANY flexibility in resizing your poker table, nor can you take advantage of all the background options your poker site may offer. Screen scraping also means that if you cover your on-screen poker table, even partially with any other program you have open on your computer, Poker-edge will lose all reading capabilities.

Tournament Indicator uses the chat box on your poker screen and transcribes that information into a single window with much easier to read information. As we have determined before, that information is much more credible for tournament play. Keep in mind too that Tournament Indicator is a program that is allowed by all the major websites too, where sites like Poker Stars will freeze your account when they find out you are using Poker-Edge. (Check your PokerStars user agreement on this). Good luck in getting your money out if they do that.

While Poker-edge has made a decent attempt at offering tournament statistics, the value of which that software displays is virtually meaningless. Tournament Indicator is the only poker calculator on the market specifically designed for tournaments and can effectively serve up the critical information you need to make decisions in tournaments.

By: Marty Smith