[OnTheButton]

When you have a dedicated "poker room" like the wife and I do (i.e. it is always set up and ready to go) people were calling us for games twice a week at least.

We used to play our ring games twice a week (Saturday and Tuesday) but brought that back to just Saturday night. With all the other house chores, we were lucky to get the room cleaned back up before the next game came around. Once a week is fine.

We also used to start at around 8pm, but those games would often last until 3am or so. So about 2 weeks ago we changed it to start at 5pm and now they end well before midnight. Much better for all involved including us.

Now that we are only having a game once a week, we need to have players call in advance to reserve one of the 8 remaining seats. When we were playing twice a week, if you missed the cut-off you would get first dibbs on Tuesday seating.

Once a week is fine for us now. Enough to scratch the itch and still make it something to look forward to on the weekend.