Help needed for Home game, blinds and chips(suggestions please)

beach2002

Hi, wondering if anyone can help me, I am running a casual home game for between 5 and 7 players this weekend and wondering if someone could help me with some ideas for how to run the game smoothly.

I am hoping the game will last for around 2 - 2 1/2 hours and will be freeze out format of NL hold em.

Can anyone help with
a) starting amount of chips and chip values (i have two standard 300 peice chip sets)
b) blind schedule.

thanks
labeach

Rivaflush

Hey man...check out www.homepokertoruney.com. It's got everything you'll need to run a great game including a blind schedual and ..really everything!
Have a good time!

Zithal

My favorite exercise! What's the colour breakdown of the chips you have? We'll hook you up with something good.

beach2002

Okay, thanks for the help, I have 2 sets, both the same

1 set equals

100 white
50 blue
50 green
50 red
50 black

Zithal wrote:

My favorite exercise! What's the colour breakdown of the chips you have? We'll hook you up with something good.

Zithal

Here are three suggestions depending on how many chips you want players to start with, or what you want the blinds to look like. Note you have enough chips so that all of these will accomdate up to 8 players. In each case, I'm spelling out 8 levels of 20 mintues each, though I'm expecting the end to come at level 7. (which is about 2-2.5 hours) The estimate end level is marked with an **, though it'll change depending on how tight/loose your game is.

A) 100 points in chips to begin

Starting chips:
20 x white(1)
10 x red(5)
3 x blue(10)

Schedule (raise blinds every 20 minutes)
1/2, 2/3, 2/4, 3/6, 5/10, 10/15, 10/20, 15/30**, 20/40

Notes: Lots of starting chips, players are sometimes put off by the little numbers (i.e I raise you "6", doesn't sounds as fun as "I raise you 1,000")

1,000 in chips to begin

Starting Chips:
10 x red(5)
10 x blue(10)
10 x green(25)
6 x black(100)

Blinds (raise every 20 minutes)
10/20, 15/30, 20/40, 40/60, 50/100, 100/200, 150/300**, 200/400

Notes: lots of chips, and good numbers to bet

C) 2,500 points in starting chips

12 x green(25)
12 x black(100)
2 x blue(500)

Blinds: (raise every 20 minutes)
25/50, 50/100, 75/150, 100/200, 200/400, 300/600, 500/1000**, 1000/2000

Notes: Note as many physical number of chips, but a lot of people like the "numbers" that you get to bet here.

Pick on, give it a try.. if you find the game ending too soon, then add a bunch of chips to everyone and give it a try again. Keep playing around with it and eventually you'll find a structure that you and your players enjoy. Make sure to report back on what you used and how it went. Good luck!

beach2002

Thanks Zithal, I very much appreciate your help, now as I start confirming players for my game it appears instead of running my own game, I may be looking for a Saturday night game for myself and 2 friends. LOL.

Best wishes

IM-ON-TILT

wow Zithal,

thanks, i've been looking for help in this area 2...i have a thread somewhere!

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