Home games format

[faireycakes]

Ok, well We have a small nlh poker game at home every couple of months, more sociable than proffessional.
About 8 people, one massive chinese meal and a few beers.
Basically its a tenner and then a few rebuys or whatever but i just dont think the way its set up is good, what would be a decent baseplan for a set up.
Buy ins are a tenner. Basically how many sizes of chips, how many of each and how long for the blinds to go up and what not.
The way we have been playing it hasnt really worked from what i can see as its way too easy to limp in and see all the flops while paying a pittance for the privelage.

Any suggestions ?

[Singheee]

2000 chips each would be a good start i think, blind starting at 25/50 and a 20 min clock, rebuys for two or levels, and maybe a add on for 4000 chips

[rex008]

I play in a home game where I'm the only one that plays regularly, so it's low stakes for a laugh. We use the format:
£5, rebuys for 2 hours, no addon
30min levels
3000 starting chips (4x500, 8x100, 8x25)
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200 (end of rebuys)
200/400
300/600
at this point, depending on how many people still in and what time it is, we might go up levels faster or slower by player agreement.

This structure seems to work ok for us. By the end of the rebuys, average stack is maybe 30 BB. So it's not push/fold too early, but expensive enough to see a flop. There's still a fair bit of early limping, but that's more the players than the structure . It's play money really - average is usually around 2.5 buyins each, but we have a laugh.

Edit: Woooooohoooo, that was my post #300 . Not that I'll be looking for staking, but nice to know I could

[kinboshi]

http://www.homepokertourney.com/

A good resource for this sort of thing.

[KarmaDope]

The Chezger home game is a £10 freezeout STT with this structure, and they get 2 games in a night with the chinese in the middle, starting at half 7ish.

7200 chips to start (8x25, 10x50, 20x100, 7x500, 1x1000)

1...  25 - 50 (15 Min)
2...  50 - 100 (15 Min)
3...  100 - 200 (15 Min)
4...  200 - 400 (15 Min)(1 hour)
5...  300 - 600 (15 Min)
6...  400 - 800 (15 Min)
7...  500 - 1000 (15 Min)
8...  600 - 1200 (15 Min)(2 Hours)
9...  800 - 1600 (15 Min)
10.  1000 - 2000 (15 Min)
11.. 1500 - 3000 (15 Min)
12.. 2000 - 4000 (to end)

Advantage of having 2x freezeout STTs is that people will play a bit better knowing they cant chuck chips about and just rebuy 50000 times, and even if you bust early in game 1, there's always game 2 to come!

[bolt pp]

2000 chips each, 1 bottle of brandy, 1 bottle of vodka, "other stuff"(miscillaneous, whatever you're into) , 1 jungle mania 96' CD play till about 9:30 when you're all mashed and kicking off and decide to go out for the night, gl

(oh, 15 min clock btw)

[Cf]

My home game is usually unlimited rebuys (at either £5 or £10).

I allow rebuys on a starting stack or less, so you can rebuy as soon as the tourney starts, and twice if you bust completely.

Buyin: £5 for 1000 chips
Rebuy: £5 for 1000 chips
Addon: £5 for 1500 chips

30 minutes
25/50
50/100
75/150
break - addon and end of rebuys
20 or 15 minutes from here (depending how long you've got)
100/200
150/300
etc


I find this structure works really well. It's a bit of a laugh in the early stages, and people are usually reasonbly well chipped up after the break for some "proper" poker.

[Longy]

I like putting all the beer cans in a pyramid type structure.