I am having a poker game on Saturday, June 25th at my house in Clear Lake and have a couple of seats open. $0.25/0.50 blind, pot limit Texas Hold'em
Mannn, if you're gonna have a poker game, you need to make it no limit. C'mon man up (no offense). I'm a big Hold 'Em player. I usually play least twice a week and try to play a home game everyday. Always no limit.
I work for a community college which means that I do not have the money to play no-limit unless it is a tourney.
Anyone in the SW have tourneys or games? Clear Lake is like a continent away for me. Lately, I've noticed that I'm a lot more uptight about poker. It really irritates me now when people don't follow universal table rules. Thus letting it affect my game.
What do you buy in for usually? I didn't mean no limit with hundreds of dollars. My friends and I play no limit with 5, 10, 20 dollars max.
Annoying violations... Playing out of turn. Even if you are folding. String betting. Discussing a hand in progress. Big NO NO. Touching others chips. Saying "I put you all in." Wrong. Only I can put myself all in. Either ask me how much I have an then make that bet ot better yet if it's just two players, just go all in your self. Reaching back into the muck pile after you folded pre-flop to grab your cards so that you can show another player that is also out of the hand that you hit the board. Here's a hint. We ALL know you hit the board then, giving all those still in the hand free information about what cards are now out of play AND if also shows us that if there is no paint on the board that you play tight. Why would you want to give your opponents info for free? Taking forever to bet. There are no cameras here bud. EXCEPTION: If you are heads up and about to put all your chips in or call an all in, take your time. Touching another persons cards at any time. If someone calls your all in, flip your GD cards immediately, don't ask "What you got?" or "Did you have the Ace?" Just flip and find out.
I hate that. People act like the deck has 52,000,000 cards in it, and now you have to make a point to tell everyone during the hand that the 4 9 you folded pre-flop would have turned into a full house once the 4 9 9 came out on the flop. So if I have the last 9, I'm screwed, because nobody will put any money into the pot, and if I don't, I'm scared sh!tless and will probably fold even if I had two pair or something at that point.
I agree. Those things but the hell out of me. Wish I could play Andy but I have a big Crawfish boil to go to in Galveston that weekend.
Generally, we all buy in for $20 (or more) and we allow re-buys for as little as $5. However, we play table stakes so you cannot rebuy until you are between hands. This keeps people from being able to whip out a c-note and say "I raise $100."
We enforce all of these, particularly string betting, discussing folded cards before the hand is folded, and playing out of turn. My personal pet peeve is splashing the pot. When you bet, the chips go in front of you and once everyone has called or folded, the chips go in the pot.
All those rules are great table rules. Whenever I play, we play with those rules...except for the whole reaching in the muck pile for our cards. No one seems to mind about that.
Andy why don't you just do like a 20 buy in and play the game tournament style where the top three make money. Then you can do it no limit that way. Those games are going to have a bit more action. If you want also we are holding a regional no limit tournament here for the poker company we are with this saturday starting at 12. Basically if you win this tournament you go against against 5 other regional tournament winners and the winner of that gets a seat at the WSOP. If anyone is interested. It's a free tournament by the way.
Wow, who knew that a game where you get drunk and talk about your wives behind their backs had such strict ettiquette? OK, I got all of the rules but those two....
String betting - when you put some money in front of you to place the bet then go back to your stack to put more money down for your bet cause you wanted to put more. You have to place your bet all at once. Or if you are going to raise. At lease say RAISE then it will buy you some time to get your bet ready. Discussing your hand - If your out of the hand you shouoldn't be discussing what you had or what you threw away etc etc. That will effect the people playing. if a player is trying to bluff a hand and the guys are saying oh i had the King and threw it away...the other players can then read the other guy and and it will mess up his game....
String betting: "I call and raise you 20." Just say raise, put the amount out there in front of you and announce it. The reason casinos and poker tourneys don't allow string betting is it allows you to see a reaction when you do it and more importantly is confusing and interrupts the flow of play. Discussing a hand in progress. This is a big problem online. LoudmouthJerk mucks his hand (J4o) pre-flop. Board comes JJ4. He writes "LOL would have flopped a J hi boat..." That just give everyone in the hand a ton off information. There is a fundamental difference between this and strategic discussion of a hand against an opponent. Let's say I am playing against another person. I hold Ac3c in the BB and of course I don't know what he has. Flop comes Jc 10d 9c. I check, he bets about a 1/4 off the pot. I have at least hi card and more importantly 4 to the nut flush. I call. Next card is 8s. He lights up. Bets about the size of the pot. I have him covered big time so I call, even though I'm pretty sure he just completed his straight. 10c comes on the river. He looks quickly at the card and looks right at me. I say "You didn't want to see that club, huh..." He looks away. I'm betting he made his straight on 4th street. I bet the pot. He folds. That kind of discussion is gathering information in a way that is conducive to studying your opponent and is not frowned upon as you are discussing a pot you are in.
Ya know, I've never played a serious hand of Texas Hold 'Em in my life, and I understood every word of that...Either I watch way too much ESPN, or I'm in the wrong business...
