CrunchK
New Member
Hello fellow PCFers!
After much anticipation I finally hosted my first cash game at home. My group consisted of 8 guys, of varying experience all between 30 and 40. We played NLHE .25/.50. Game started at 6 and went until about 1130.
A few of us play recreationally at our local casino, but the game was a little slow, which is okay as my goal is to have fun and grow my poker group.
First issue I had was with the blinds, I wanted to keep them at .25/.25 but the group decided to raise them to .25/.50 which I was good with, as everyone was buying in for $40.
I tried to introduce using two decks and shuffling behind, but everyone seemed confused, so we used one deck. Over time I’d like to get into two deck use, and get our shuffling more uniform. However I was pleased to have a group play together for over 5 hours and I was not going to become a stickler for shuffling on night one.
Hands played through without any out of the ordinary issues, pizza was ordered and beers were deleted !
We had a few top off during the game and rebuy, we had about $500 in play at the end of the night. Our biggest loser was out $100 and biggest winner cashing out with $175.
All in all it was a great first night using chips I bought from discountpoker… wish I took some more pictures but the Coors lights and Dr. McGillicuddys caught up with me. Everyone is looking for the next get together. Guess free beer and pumping the pot when holding Seven deuce is the secret
Your table looks great! As far as how your game played out, I'd let it grow organically. As the weaker players get better, initiate some of those other protocols. The real question, did everyone have fun?