I'm interested, and I might be able to get another person to play as well. Also, you might considering increasing the # of chips to start out with, 50 seems small to me but I'd be willing to play either way.
I'm in the Clear Lake area also and I might have 3 others interested as well. How many tickets will I get for winning again?
If I am hearing right, we are up to about 20 already. With response like that, we'll prolly get up to 24 easy.
Anyone have poker chips they are willing to bring? I can get dealer buttons, cut cards, and decks of cards, but the only chips I have are a few crappy plastic ones.
I have some good chips but not enough for 20+ players. We may have to invest in some more cheap chips to make this happen.
I have a friend who has enough chips for one table, but we will need 2 tables worth for up to 26 people and more if the game gets larger.
I have about 300 chips I can bring but that doesn't even cover 1 table. Plus you don't want anymore then 10 to a table tops. Another thing you might want to consider is laying down the rules before the game starts. You'd be surprised how many differences there are in house games. I would suggest a seven shufful rule. No mixed straights (Q,K,A,2,3) althought the A can be used as high or low. Also, another thing that gets me when people play out-of-order - just no a good idea.
300 should cover one table of 10 easily enough. I tend to agree with you, but will have to do some shuffling to set up three tables. One would probably have to go in the garage, which might not be that big a deal in October, but this is Houston, so who knows. I thought I had laid down most of them in the initial post, but if there are more rules that we need to clarify, we can do that in this thread. As in, no more than seven shuffles, or you MUST shuffle exactly seven times? I thought that one went without saying, but no, there will be no around the corner straights. We will play basically the same rules they play in the WSOP. Yeah, that gets me too. No out of order play will be a good rule. First offense is a warning, second offens you mus pay the big blind to the pot, third offense, match the pot.
To make the chips work out, since most chip sets are 300 chips, we will play with 5 $10 chips, 5 $5 chips, and 20 $1 chips, giving each player a stack of $95. That is based on a max table of ten, though it is technically possible to play with up to 13 at a table.
I agree with all these rules laid out so far. 10 to a table is best but if we have to have a couple more I can deal with it. Yeah and no playing out of turn. I also suggest if you leave the table you get dealt cards then when the play gets to you, you pay the big blind and your hand gets folded. I think that is how they do it in casino's although I was drinking heavily the time I played in a casino so I may be slightly off on the ruling.
The way it will work for us (just like in Vegas tourneys) is that if someone leaves the table, the blinds come out of their stack if they are in the blind, but if decision time comes and the player is not at the table, the hand gets folded. That way, if you take a break on the button, it will probably not cost anything at all. That is what Phil Helmuth does.
