[pj_blind]

Do most of you guys do tourney style home games? T1000/T1500 or Cash style games like T100. I ask because for the most part you can run any Tourney style game, with a well put together 500 chip set. But if you plan on doing cash style games, then you either need to expand your set, or buy a secondary set, to accomadate the lower denominations...

I guess you could remedy this by using non denomination chips, but ... you know how confused people can get, when they are trying to remember which chip is .25, and which chip is $1... yadda yadda... i know when i see a red chip, i think 5$ and when i see a black chip, i think $100... and purple... $500 ... ect ...

Whats your opinions/comments?

[smoore]

we play mainly cash, but I'm going to be starting a tournament soon, as most of the donks are sick of losing thier stacks to the rest of us. No more scheduled cash game at my house. I say do both... you can start a cash game when you color up the first time. I plan on eventually having two sets of chips, desert sands ceramics for tournaments and some custom TRKings for cash. I will use the desert sands for cash at 1/100 value for now until I can justify buying custom chips.

[hachkc]

We typically play both Tournaments and Cash games (1/month for each type) and we use a different set of chips for each.

I think you really should have 2 chip sets (denom or otherwise); 1 for cash games ($1/$5) and 1 for tourneys ($25/$100/$500/$1000). Also, cash games typically need 2 or 3 chip types while tournaments need 3 or 4 chip types.

This way you have a second set of chips for those folks to use when they bust out of a tournament and you don't have to worry about tournament chips "making their way" into cash games.

Obviously, this would require more chips but that's a good thing, right

[SpeakEasy]

We start with seven-player $10 NLHE tournament, T1500, one $10 rebuy. Usually last 90 minutes to 2 hours. Then switch to cash game.

I have a 500 chip set, denominations from 25cent to $1000. Works just fine for both games. Cash game buy-in range is usually $20-$40 or so, nothing too big. A 500 chip set with the full range of chip denoms should work fine.

Everyone is having more fun with the tournaments, though. Losses are limited to buy-in, excitement of building up to a champion (or deal between final 2 players). Sometimes we just run 2 tournaments and skip the cash game.

[SpaceMonkey]

I get between 6-9 ppl at my games, every other week. We typically have 3 $20 T2000 tournaments. A few times we've had pot limit dealers choice cash games which were met with indifference to resistance. And actually to outright hosility whenever I'd call Omaha/8.

As speakeasy mentions, everyone prefers tournaments due to the set buy-in and eliminating players/crowning a champion. Plus it's what's on TV. I also keep track of everyone's standings, so that added competition level exites people too.

I'm trying again to start having some cash games as well though. Just yesterday we had a 1-2 limit HE kill game that was pretty fun. I'm going to try a 25¢/50¢ or 50¢/$1 NL cash game next. Everyone said they had a good time, but they all still prefer the tournaments. I like both.

[redelite]

we can never play cash games here because everyone we know that plays are cheap bastards and they dont want to spend over $10 on a cash game... so we talk them into $20 tourneys =/

[zerolux]

Originally Posted by redelite

we can never play cash games here because everyone we know that plays are cheap bastards and they dont want to spend over $10 on a cash game... so we talk them into $20 tourneys =/

hell i get stuck playing $5 buyins, no rebuys. T1500 to start. i wish i could talk the cheap asses into 10 bucks. most of them are BIG fish, so the games end quick and we end up playing 3-5 games a night.

i can't ***** too much though, out of the 10-12 people who play in these games, only me and 3 other people are any good, so we end up with most of the money.


the games are VERY informal though, which sucks. when i first started playing with this group, it took me 3 games to talk the "host" into using a blind structure. they would always just ante up. then it took another 3 games to teach people how to post the blinds and bet correctly. blinds are 50-100, "duh, ok, i raise 20" arrghhh.

and forget about a re-raise, have you ever actually "seen" a dead brain cell? i have.

[Captn_All_In]

My game is alot like the rest of you guys. 2 tourney a night, either $5 and $10, or $10, and $20. Nothing more....nothing less. We do start a table of dealers choice for the losers, but that is played with change, not chips.

[unclepat]

I usually play tournaments (T1500) until there are enough people that have been nocked out to start a small cash game .....I have 600 hundred chips for my tournaments and then 400 to START my cash games and then add another 200 after we color up some of the low denominations in the tourney game

[hayaku]

tourney style with no rebuy, everyone seems to like that set up.