[OnTheButton]

Originally Posted by Captn_All_In

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This is a great point!! I luckily had a bag of change and two guys had singles to make up for the others!!

We've actually talked about buying a cheap cash register to keep in the game room with like $100.00 in bills and coins JUST for this situation.

It really stinks when you have a 10 player 25/50 cent ring game and EVERYONE brings a $20 bill to start with.



WTF are they thinking? We are a real casino?

[SpeakEasy]

Some random thoughts:

To solve the "everyone brings a $20 bill" problem, collect $1-bills yourself between games, then buy in with $20 in $1-bills. Problem solved. When I occasionally play cash games (in a casino), I save up the $20-bills and change them into $100-bills, and save the smaller bills for to help with the "everyone brings a $20-bill" problem at the home game.

If you really want to play a hold 'em tournament, where everone wants action for the longest possible time, but have a strict time limit try some variations:

--early levels progress slowly, do doubling of blinds; this leads to plenty of play for the first hour or hour and a half

--allow one rebuy when a player craps out

--escalate the blinds faster in the later stage of the game -- double up each time

--at the appointed hour, all play ends and the pot is chopped among the remaining players based on current chip count, and players get the hell out.

This results in more skill early, and more luck later, but thems the breaks if everyone wants to play a tournament yet stick to a strict ending time. Its unavoidable that some players will bust out early and have to watch the action or entertain themselves.

[Dwight87]

What are you guys using for blinds on the limit 0.25/0.50 cash game? Is it bad form to just use 0.25 for both the small and big blind? You can just use one denom for that format.

[vrecksler]

You can use whatever blinds you want really, but they should not be too high in relation to the min/max buy-in. We have a min/max of $10/$20 and use the $0.25/$0.50 for blinds and it works out well. Having blinds the same works well for earlier stages in tournament play, but I have never tried it in cash game play.

[OnTheButton]

Originally Posted by Dwight87

What are you guys using for blinds on the limit 0.25/0.50 cash game? Is it bad form to just use 0.25 for both the small and big blind? You can just use one denom for that format.

I have a set of 1000 "Jackpot Casino Coin Inlay" chips.

500 25 cent denominated (pink)
400 50 cent denominated (gray)
100 $1 denominated (purple)

We use a 25/50 cent blind. Post two "pinks" or a gray.

This amount of chips and denoms works very well for a $20 minimum buy-in, re-buy all you want format for one 10 player table. Even when one guy was down almost $80 last time, the chip leaders were more than happy to change their smaller denoms for a stack of the illustrious "purples" to sit infront of their piles.

But if you only have one denom (25 cents, which is the way it usually is when I am at other players houses for these levels) you just post two chips for the BB.

[seymour]

Originally Posted by schmag

You can use whatever blinds you want really, but they should not be too high in relation to the min/max buy-in. We have a min/max of $10/$20 and use the $0.25/$0.50 for blinds and it works out well. Having blinds the same works well for earlier stages in tournament play, but I have never tried it in cash game play.

Wouldn't $10 be a little low for 25¢/50¢? I think I'd feel like I was short stacked with that amount at those blinds. I'd probably go with a $20 min for that level. And $5-10 for a 5¢/10¢ game.

My friends are getting comfortable playing 5¢/10¢ games before and after our regular (2-2.5 hour) tournaments, need to see if they'd play 25¢/50¢ occasionally instead, skipping tournament play for that night

[gmunny]

Originally Posted by Dwight87

What are you guys using for blinds on the limit 0.25/0.50 cash game? Is it bad form to just use 0.25 for both the small and big blind? You can just use one denom for that format.

If you are going to play a fixed cash game like 1/2 Hold Em or 2/4 Omaha all night long, its fine to have blinds that rotate as the blind amounts will stay the same all night (unless you play with a kill or 1/2 kill).

We play dealers choice at our home game, and people deal all sorts of games and all sorts of bet amounts. Examples would be 1/2 to 3/6 omaha, hold em, or 7 stud, plus other non-poker games like 7/27 or guts. It wouldnt be fair to folks if blinds change, so we just have the dealer ante the lowest chip value, usually $.25 or $1.

The blind structure is to ensure there is action/money in the pot, hence a blind bet (small blind) and a blind raise (big blind), but our home game is for fun and smack talking, so there is always plenty of action. Have fun.
G$

[vrecksler]

Originally Posted by seymour

Wouldn't $10 be a little low for 25¢/50¢? I think I'd feel like I was short stacked with that amount at those blinds. I'd probably go with a $20 min for that level. And $5-10 for a 5¢/10¢ game.

My friends are getting comfortable playing 5¢/10¢ games before and after our regular (2-2.5 hour) tournaments, need to see if they'd play 25¢/50¢ occasionally instead, skipping tournament play for that night

Most of the guys buy-in for $20, but it does fluctuate because we are all students so we have to be a little flexible and accomodate smaller amounts. And surprisingly enough, guys like the shortstacked feeling to start with, it creates action and makes every pot worth fighting for.

When we have T1000 tourneys they want them over in around 1.5 hours so we start with 25/50 and blinds basically double every 15 minutes. A bit of a gong show but everyone has a riot and it seems to keep everyone coming back each month.

[seymour]

Originally Posted by schmag

Most of the guys buy-in for $20, but it does fluctuate because we are all students so we have to be a little flexible and accomodate smaller amounts. And surprisingly enough, guys like the shortstacked feeling to start with, it creates action and makes every pot worth fighting for.

When we have T1000 tourneys they want them over in around 1.5 hours so we start with 25/50 and blinds basically double every 15 minutes. A bit of a gong show but everyone has a riot and it seems to keep everyone coming back each month.

I'll have to give that a try sometime. A lot of the time, we'll just buyin to 5¢/10¢ games for maybe $3, or whatever change is in our pockets. Not quite as short stacked as $10 in the higher limit game, but still a bit, I guess. And it works out well enough.

We usually play T10000 tournaments, starting at 25/50 and blinds going up every 10 minutes. Not doubling each time, but it generally lasts 2-2.5 hours. Last game with just 4 players (probably should have just kept playing the ring game we had going), 2 guys got knocked out on the same hand after about 1.5 hours - not by me, unfortunately - and then I was heads up with him for another hour before I got outdrawn on the river

I should tweak the blinds/stacks a little more, see if I can get the game down to 1.5-2 hours. And have a longer ring game, or a second tournament game.

[Captn_All_In]

HHEEEYYYY!!!! G$!!!!

I need you to refresh my memory on 7/27!!!! It has been awhile since I played that but I can't wait to try it next time!!

Thanks!!