Posted Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:33 pm GMT by Irish
Hey guys, I have a few questions concerning my home game. We're all pretty much a bunch of casual players (all high school). All of our games have turned into 10 hour marathons mainly because we aren't raising the blinds fast enough and perhaps that I'm allowing re-buys. For a $5 cash game, how often should I raise the blinds to get the same around 3-4 hours? Also, should there be re-buys in a game like that? Or should I just nix them?
Another problem has been chip distribution. We've been doing the chips as such:
Seven .25 cent chips ($1.75)
Twenty .10 cent chips ($2.00)
Twenty .5 cent chips ($1.00)
Twenty-five .1 cent chips ($.25)
Are these any good? It seems to us like the .1 cent chips get annoying once there's about 4 people left and the blinds are raised so high that it makes no sense to use .1 cent chips. What would be the ideal chip distribution for a $5 game with about 12 players?
Any help would be very appreciated. Or, if you have any suggestions/examples of what you guys do at your own personal home games, that'd be awesome. Thanks.
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Posted Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:12 pm GMT by Sean_in_NJ
This sounds like a tournament, not a cash game. Blinds don't go up in a cash game, because there shouldn't be a logical end to it except when agreed upon.
If it were me, I'd assign different values to the chips and use one of the blind structures at http://www.homepokertourney.com. It sounds like you have enough chips available to do that. Keep the buy-in the same, issue $1000 in tournament chips and have at it. You should finish in 3-5 hours.
Posted Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:50 pm GMT by Iron Butt
What he said, or if you want to learn to do it yourself here are some tips.
One thing is that in a tournament you don't have to tie the chip values to the buyin. You can say your $5 buyin gets you 1000 chips ("T1000") or 100 or 2500, whatever gives you the format you want.
Also to maximize your chips you should have each chip value usually 4-5 times the last, like 1-5-25-100. And people often load up on the lower values despite that as you've noted they get in the way.
You can and should "color up", meaning introducing the higher chip values when they become useful and changing out the low values at that time. It would depend on your blind schedule, you might want to get the 1s off the table at 5-10 if you're going to go in 5s after that, or if that's too fast you might wait til 10-20.
An easy format I've used is each player gets 100 chips, blinds start at 1 and 2. You might want to give each player 10 1s, 10 5s, and 2 25s, or maybe 15 or 20 1s if you want to minimize change-making. Raise the blinds as needed, we usually started out slow (1-2, 2-4, 3-6, etc. every 20 min.) and accelerated later (10-20, 20-40, etc. every 15 min.). A useful rule of thumb is that you can expect the tourney to end around if not a little before the BB is 1/10th of the chips in play. We allowed up to 2 rebuys and it made for a 4-5 hour game, if you don't allow rebuys you might want to start with maybe another 100 in 25s.
So with this info you should be able to run your home tourney however it suits you. Hope it helps, have fun.
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