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 Home poker game, Brent, 3. Sep 2003 08:04 | ||
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| Ok Gents, I got invited into a homepoker tournament next weekend. This is the kind of game you dream of. Over 20 players at $100 a pop No Limit Texas Hold'em (thank you world poker tour). I have met most of the guys before through a friend. 97% of the guys have never played in a tournament before much less in a serious game and the other 3 are the guys I play with and beat reguarly. I'm not worried about structure or tournament rules since the organizor came to me and I supplied him with the whole set up. I'm just posting this to add some pressure to myself and not take the game lightly. I plan on playing conservative for the first hour then opening it up and buying pots. I will update this post with how I did. | ||
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| Re: Home poker game, shorn, 3. Sep 2003 08:11 | ||
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| Be careful on the buying pots plan. Since 7 of theseplayers don't know how to play, they may make what to you would seem very illogical calls thereby catching your bluffs and depleting your stack. I speak from experience in this from a home tournament that I participated in once. I would play normal strategy early until you can get a feel for how the newbie's are playing and then more likely than not play "trap" poker to build your stack. As long as the blind increments and timing are reasonable, this should be a good strategy to assure you of making the top 5 where you can begin to get more aggressive. Good luck. | ||
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| Re: Home poker game, stdioh, 3. Sep 2003 12:36 | ||
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| Good luck. It's great to find a game like that. Milk it for all that it is worth and remember the following: 1) Be nice when you take everybody's money. Make them have a good time and want to play again. 2) Along the same lines if you win against somebody acknowledge that you had some "great luck". 3) If you lose after flopping a tight and pushing all in because some dink made a backdoor straight flush against you without any kind of odds, be graceful about it. 4) If you can make this a weekly thing, you could do *very* well from it. Nurture it like a small child and don't invite any real poker players along with you to share in the spoils. If it's really that juicy they'll weasle into it on their own and eventually make it unprofitable. Keep it casual for as long as you can. | ||
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