"Low Stakes Poker"

Lord_Strife · #1 06-25-2007, 07:34 PM

As a poker dealer you tend to mix yourself up with a lot of people that love poker as much as you. We're currently trying to setup our home game that is extremely friendly but also competitive enough for people not to get bored with the stakes. Obviously some of us find $10 and $20 sngs boring (irl anyways), so our solution? "Low Stakes Poker".

I'm having pokerchips.com make me a custom set of poker chips similar to the ones from the South Point hotel and casino and the ones that are used in High Stakes Poker season 3. We want to make our game a 1/1000th replica of the game and play with stacks that are equally deep.

So basically the game will play as a .30/.60 game with a .10 ante. Now that sounds pretty small and for someone that's used to playing 1/2nl and 2/5nl it is pretty small. But honestly it's all about the stack sizes... if each player has between 100-300 behind (or 1k if you want to be brad booth) so the game will play pretty deep.

However, my problem is, we want to incorporate mixed games into the fun. We all deal stud, stud8, omaha, omaha8... might as well get them in. I think .30/.60/.10 pot limit omaha is just dandy so we'll keep that. For the limit games though, we wnat to play something with like a $100-$300 stack so that's approximately somewhere between $2/$4 and $5/$10 and I think a solid compromise is $3/6 limit omaha8 and limit hold'em. With the stud/stud8 I am kinda thinking about playing spread limit because that's what we offer in our room... $2-$5 spread limit stud games...

How interesting do you think this mix could be? I'm looking for ideas as to how to keep up the rotation because I'm not sure on the best method for it. When do we change games? Blah...

Thoughts? Ideas? Comments?

FWIW, we're definitely going to have bricks of $1 bills on teh table.

Lottery Larry · #2 06-25-2007, 11:02 PM

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I'm having pokerchips.com make me a custom set of poker chips similar to the ones from the South Point hotel and casino and the ones that are used in High Stakes Poker season 3. We want to make our game a 1/1000th replica of the game and play with stacks that are equally deep.

So basically the game will play as a .30/.60 game with a .10 ante. Now that sounds pretty small and for someone that's used to playing 1/2nl and 2/5nl it is pretty small. But honestly it's all about the stack sizes... if each player has between 100-300 behind (or 1k if you want to be brad booth) so the game will play pretty deep.

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Why don't you just expand the chip values? Play a 10x game or 100x game. Buy in is $10, chip value is $100 or 1000. When you cash out, divide down to get the actual cash value. (make up a strict rule about how rounding is going to occur, so no arguments)

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However, my problem is, we want to incorporate mixed games into the fun. We all deal stud, stud8, omaha, omaha8... might as well get them in.
When do we change games? Blah...

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What's stopping you? Change the game after 2-3 rotations, per game. That gives you a chance to get into the flow of each game.
Have the dealer ante, rather than making everyone do it, during stud games.

If you have more than 8 players seated, deal out the players to either side of the button during the stud rotations. Get some cheap black lammers to denote this.

That's all I can think of right now

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FWIW, we're definitely going to have bricks of $1 bills on teh table.

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Even with the bricks, you could still do expanded chips. You'd have to label the bricks with the "fake" value and make sure no one breaks them up.

stevea · #3 06-26-2007, 10:04 AM

No suggestions for you...but this sounds fun. I REALLY like the idea of having the singles on the table [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] My friend did it for his league championship game: http://www.homepokertour.com/clubhome.php?clubid=116

d3gener4te · #4 06-26-2007, 12:52 PM

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Lord_Strife · #5 06-26-2007, 10:08 PM

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No suggestions for you...but this sounds fun. I REALLY like the idea of having the singles on the table [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] My friend did it for his league championship game: http://www.homepokertour.com/clubhome.php?clubid=116

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Yeah we're super excited about it... the chip set is going to cost a freaking fortune (more than $1/chip and we want to have huge chip stacks in play).

I would imagine the average player in our game is going to be sitting $300 behind with like $150 of it in single dollar bills and the rest in small denominations. If you look at any given time in HSP you'll see their stacks contain approximately 100-200 chips in front of them plus bricks.

Lord_Strife · #6 06-26-2007, 10:28 PM

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Why don't you just expand the chip values? Play a 10x game or 100x game. Buy in is $10, chip value is $100 or 1000. When you cash out, divide down to get the actual cash value. (make up a strict rule about how rounding is going to occur, so no arguments)

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I don't like this because I want each chip to hold a value... and the lower the value of each chip is the more likely each player is to put it in the pot. This game is going to have a ton of action and I expect it to be pretty juicy.

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What's stopping you? Change the game after 2-3 rotations, per game. That gives you a chance to get into the flow of each game.
Have the dealer ante, rather than making everyone do it, during stud games.

If you have more than 8 players seated, deal out the players to either side of the button during the stud rotations. Get some cheap black lammers to denote this.

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This is so/so in my opinion. For the most part I don't expect the games to have a huge turnout because there aren't too many of us... and if there are no more than eight of us then we won't have to force anyone to sit out. With the small denominations in play I prefer everyone to ante for themselves. Last time I checked, Stars $3/$6 limit stud games have a .25 ante... i'm not sure if I feel that's too small or just right. I think a .50 ante might be more accurate and appropriate. Thoughts?

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Even with the bricks, you could still do expanded chips. You'd have to label the bricks with the "fake" value and make sure no one breaks them up.

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I'm really not concerned about anyone breaking up the bricks. We're going to purchase them from the bank... "hi can I withdraw $1000 please... yes all singles if you don't mind. No ma'am I'm not going to the strip club... just balla"

Lottery Larry · #7 06-26-2007, 11:13 PM

I must have misinterpreted the goal of your OP- sorry.

Unless they are very aggressive, I think the limit game will play much bigger than the PL game. Not sure if they match up or not.

Are there going to be any bankroll problems? the $20 SNG comment threw me off originally

Lord_Strife · #8 06-26-2007, 11:47 PM

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I must have misinterpreted the goal of your OP- sorry.

Unless they are very aggressive, I think the limit game will play much bigger than the PL game. Not sure if they match up or not.

Are there going to be any bankroll problems? the $20 SNG comment threw me off originally

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Nah we're much more balla than $20 home games (not that there's anything wrong with that). Basically the table can't stomache playing less than 3/6 limit because less than that is like putting forks in our eyes boring... and I think the only reason the nl/pl game will be good is because it's exotic and the stacks will be super super super deep.

Lord_Strife · #9 06-29-2007, 03:12 AM

bump... bump bump bump it up... cuz i'm drunk and that's how I roll how ya like me now...

one of my friends thinks that 2-5 spread limit on the stud games is too high so I think we're going to make stud and stud8 2/4 with a .20 ante. That way the nits will play tooooo (freaking nits)