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hi all, hope everyone had great Xmas and even drunker New Year   ;letsparty;

I've entered a £20 FO at my local club, 32 players (ish)  and i've been asked to help out in setting it up, this was last night.

Now, approx 10 of these players play regular on Thurs night/Sat afternoon, but its £10 winner takes all (I've got an  Ad so i'm all in 1st hand).  They DO have a concept of the game, but they have no idea of multi-table, and one of these guys is running it.

I organised a few tournies there earlier this year and they went OK, but a few couldn't understand why i kept moving just as they were about to post BB, no idea of leveling tables, breaking a table etc. I knew what i was doing and they ran smoothly

What i would like is to print out a tourny structure, starting stack, chip distribution, blind structure (30 min levels - running for 6/8 hrs) paying down to 10th,  then i can give the organiser the printouts so when i sit down i am not constantly being asked to sort out trivialities. During one of my tournies in one hand the board read 9,K,2,2,A and 1 guy couldn't understand why i split it, he had A,Q against A,5  ;frustrated;   I think today wont run smoothly so me & her wanna sit and play whilst dodging any messy arguments

So if anyone has a link or a printout they could pm me then i would be very appreciated.

Will let you know how it went when i get out of hospital

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

Hope this helps  ;hattip;

http://www.homepokertourney.com/create-a-blind.htm

thanks Graham, i have emailed Colin

thanks Eck, dabbling with it now

just got back!!!!

28 runners, chips -  5 blue, 5 red, 5 black and 5 green, (100, 200,500 and 1000) we all collect chips from organiser, then sit at tables - 4 tables of 7 players

I ask org what blind structure and blinds start (no-one knew) ? he replies "starts 100/200 wiv 30 min blinds" so i ask if the structure should be changed i.e :- reduce chip value or drop starting levels - i did take up 3 examples of chip/blind structure from site advised by Eck.  He replies with "f*ck off tex, we do this every week, dont get involved" - see my 1st post

couple of more players question this so he changes it to 45 min blinds and the game begins :-

during the tourny my table was OK, but as players got knocked out on other tables it was a case of "smallest stack moved" - regardless of position  ;djinn;

After a while there was 4 players at my table, 7 players on another and 6 on the other. My GF tells org that tables should be levelled - to which everyone else in comp says "ye, there's only 4 players on that table"

solution in my eyes - move next BB from big table to my table so we have 6,6,5 - AM I WRONG ?

Believe this folks, this is what happened - he came over and dealt us one card each - 2 highest cards went to one table, 2 lowest cards went to the other table - i tried protesting to no avail, i'm sure this isn't right

Not a bad beat story but i eventually went out with  9,9  against A,J (J on river) but to be honest i had started playing very loose after seeing what ppl were calling on and in my opinion it was very poorly organised/run.

The landlord had asked me to help out with this as i had held tournys there before, and i posted on here for help and got much appreciated replies, but was fobbed off by the organiser because "they play every week"

lol. merry xmas Adam

sounds like a nightmare Tex, in fact it sounds like my 1 and only experience of pub poker. it's a shame that something that could be so good is ruined in some cases by having organisers who know nothing about tournament poker

with 17 players left there is no reason to be playing on 3 tables if the tables hold 8 players so splitting the table was the right thing to do

moving the short stack is an old way of doing it and AdamM swears it the right way to do it while most of us think it should be moving the guy with the biggest mouth to give everyone else a chance to get rid of there headache

dyscalculia anyone?

Pubs are good for beer and pub quizzes.  Poker in the pub isn't my cup of tea.

Especially if Iron's involved...

looks like your math is as good as your spelling iron  rotflmfao 2 x8 is 16 so with 17 left 3 tables are needed 6 6 5

typing error

who moved my 9

if the tables can hold 9 then play 9 handed

unusual for you to make a typing error mate  ;)

its cause its dark late and the spell check missed it

there is no way in the world that you have a spell checker

must be some spell checker if it could tell you meant to press 9 rather than 8 lol

all blonde posts have a spell checker but it ain't clever enough to work out numbers

for some reason, coz my table kept 7 players in (started 8 each) - other tables kept losing players so organiser kept moving players between other 3 tables (smallest stack moved) until eventually - after 1 particular hand - we  ended up with 4 players on my table, by then there was only 3 tables running, but it's the way we were distributed i am questioning.

After initial querie i resigned to the fact i gotta move BUT, i moved to cut-off on new table, even though i was due to pay BB - no questions asked (i just went and sat there)

I JUST WANNA KNOW - is this normal in pub games, dealing cards to decide who goes where ? It's certainly not the way i would have organised it but after being told to WIND MY NECK IN i just accepted it

yeah random seating for new table

high cards gets first seat etc etc

Could have been worse TEX, Ironhead could have been providing the "Karaoke" style "Entertainment" in pub while you were playing.

Truly, Christmas is a time of miracles.

yeah bainn, couldn't agree more - i just went with the flow

Good man.

Pub poker, with it's heady mix of alcohol, ignorance,and aggresion, has the potential for trouble. Coupling that with organizer,who don't know their arse from their elbow........steer clear Aspades

I agree if you are going to play poker in the pub then leave it to those who have been doing it for several years......sorry could not resist :)

Either don't play or go with the flow. Anything else will cause problems - even if you are right.

This is the reason that i dont play in MTT games at Pubs/Snooker clubs in Newport.

Badly organised, and too many  ;flushy;

Does my head in.