[Lumpy]

What sort of different things do you do to add enjoyment to your leagues or home games.

Here are some of the things we have done:

Pineapple tournament - we have a rubber pineapple for a dealer button, use lei's for bounty chips and encourage Hawiian shirt wear.

H.O.P.S tournament - holdem, omaha, pineapple, stud

We do not do rebuys, but we allow bounties to be cashed in for bonus chips if you knock someone out in the first 4 rounds.

We have a Mendoza line - First person knocked out becomes the line for the following week. If you finish below the line you lose 1 league point. Above +1. If the line wins they get one bonus point for every person in the tournament.

What do you do?

[omar]

Bounty chips ($5) each - just turned in for cash

T of C - $3 contribution by each player for each tourney. Best 9 finishes out of 14 count. 1 point for each position you finish (i.e. 1 pt for last, 2 pts. for next-to-last, etc) plus bonus points for finishing in the money). If your best 9 finishes sum to say, 76 points, then you start the T of C with T7600 chips. WSOP blind struture in the T of C.

That's about it. You are ahead of us in your new ideas......

[PocketRocket]

Not really new, but it might enjoy some sort of renewal when this TV stuff passes. I learned it from my dad and his friends about 45 years ago.

Dealers choice, table stakes (you guys call it NL), cash. Rebuys with whatever money you've got in your pocket for as many times as you need to. Host provides booze, refreshments, and snacks (and don't you dare ask people to chip in, you're the host), guests are welcome to bring additional snacks if desired but never required, venue changes so that everyone gets to play host. Couples welcomed.

For more info, your folks or grandparents (depending upon your age) can probably provide more details ... if they can remember .

[FreckleDaddy]

Well we only play low buyin nl holdem tourneys. I've tried to get a cash game going, but everyone seems intimidated by them. Tried getting an omaha tourney together, but that proved fruitless as well. I really need to find some other people that are willing to play different games and what not.

Fd

[jmda]

We play a lot of SHOE, but have recently added 2 to 7 triple draw into the mix for dealer's choice. One friend used to run a PLO NLHE 30 minute rotation cash game with $1 and $2 blinds, they switched it to Dealers Choice a couple months ago.

In June I held a series of tournaments while the wife and kids were on vacation for ten days. Started with SHOE, Pot Limit Hold'em, 7 card stud, PLO, Limit Hold'em, 7 card stud Hi/Lo, Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo and the main event NLHE. I also had $6 to $10 one table NLHE "Satellites" all week so someone could win a buy-in to the main event which was $60. Had a point system for best overall player, I came in second on that; it was down to the last tournament and I came in 4th out of 35 while the person that won the best overall best player came in 3rd.

[BigKyle]

Try this one, it's a lot of fun. Put the names of x number of famous poker pros on small slips of paper and put them in a hat. Have every player from your game draw a slip. The next game they have to dress/act like that player (they don't have to play like that player but they could if they wanted to) they drew. You will get some good laughs.

[Wooderson]

Originally Posted by Lumpy

We have a Mendoze line - First person knocked out becomes the line for the following week. If you finish below the line you lose 1 league point. Above +1. If the line wins they get one bonus point for every person in the tournament.

That is a very cool idea.

[omar]

I forgot one other thing. I did host a head's up championship a few months back. * players, T1000, double elimination, we drew numbers for the initial pairings, then played it out. It was OK, the biggest problems is one match , may last 5 minutes, another may last 40 minutes. So some guys end up sitting around with nothing to do for a while.

[Tatdave]

Pants optional night?

[Matthew]

hire a topless female dealer