Online "Home Game"

dnhll · #1 08-24-2006, 08:58 PM

I have a bunch of college friends all over the country and we want to start a online "homegame". Most of them don't have online accounts (read juicy) and they don't want to deal with neteller, etc. We don't want to deal with a rake either. Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to do this? Can you get free private tables anywhere, do they support multiple games (dealer choice)? Does Poker Academy or similar software support this? Thanks in advance..

tufat23 · #2 08-24-2006, 10:03 PM

very unlikely. tell them to get neteller accounts and all sit at wpex.

party has private games but its gonna cost some rake

Emperor · #3 08-25-2006, 01:48 AM

Back in the day. Izmet Fekali and Abdul Jalib used to sit at a play money table and play headsup, and then settle up after the session

zerosum · #4 08-25-2006, 02:01 AM

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Does Poker Academy or similar software support this?

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You should be able to hold online *home games* with Poker Academy Pro. Of course, each player will have to purchase a copy.

21times20 · #5 08-25-2006, 03:37 AM

can't you just play on yahoo games?

edfurlong · #6 08-25-2006, 03:53 AM

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can't you just play on yahoo games?

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LOL, everyone knows Yahoo! is rigged.

gasoltub · #7 08-25-2006, 01:07 PM

If you happen to have a windows server with Microsoft SQL Server on it you can try OpenPoker. It's an opensource poker server and client. http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpoker

AntonHeat · #8 08-25-2006, 01:32 PM

WPEX sounds pretty good, but that would require neteller..

Benholio · #9 08-25-2006, 01:52 PM

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Back in the day. Izmet Fekali and Abdul Jalib used to sit at a play money table and play headsup, and then settle up after the session

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I think play money games would be great, if you are good enough friends to trust each other to pay-up, etc. On Pokerroom network you can create your own table or tournament and make it password protected etc.

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Can you get free private tables anywhere, do they support multiple games (dealer choice)?

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I checked pokerroom real quick, and you can create private play-money tables, and you can choose different games (holdem/7stud/5draw/omaha), but not dealer's choice. You can do this tournament style or ring game style.

$Robbed$ · #10 08-25-2006, 01:59 PM

The only way to go is play on XBOX Live. They have awesome tourneys...No I don't know...but those games look pretty sweet [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]