Tips on Hosting Home Games (Looooong!)

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Yeah, good post, tho' some things are different here:
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Without a set stop time, the losers will beg to keep on playing indefinitely. The winners will want to quit, the losers will call them wimps, and it is kind of a messy scene.[ QUOTE ]


I wish the losing players for the week would want to keep playing forever. It usually ends up that four or five of us go 'til the wee hours, and we're rarely stuck by that time, having sent everybody else packing.

Agree that you have to be a hardass about attendance. I have a weekly cash game and a monthly tournament. The cash game is strong enough now that I just send out a reminder every week (some weeks no game) and the rotating cast is enough to sustain a game. For tournaments I use evite, and I find two weeks notice is short enough so that people don't RSVP and then forget, but long enough for substantial warning. It's also almost always the same Thursday every month, so that helps.