Broski
Pair
Be gentle, I'm fragile. (Not really, but it sounded good)
I've been helping/running a cash game at a friend's place for over a year now, and after coming here, I've learned that we have been doing it all wrong. Now I need to try to fix it without losing the game.
We started with 1 table running .25/.50 with $20 buy-ins. The chip set we had to work with, of course, didn't have fracs, so someone decided we would just call every chip .25 and run with it. I know now, BAD idea. In the beginning though it worked because we only had 6-8 players. The last game we played, we had 18 or 19 guys play on 2 tables and we didn't have enough chips. I was late getting there, and they decided to just short stack everyone, and go with it. Whatever.
Now I need to make some changes but don't want to lose the group we have. Myself and a few others really enjoy playing poker, unfortunately, many just play to play, and because $20 doesn't hurt the pocket, they just play dumb. It's your money, play how you want, but c'mon. I would hate to raise the stakes and lose some of the beginners that are trying to learn. At the same time, how do we get it to be taken a bit more seriously? What would you change to make it better?
Also, I am going down the rabbit hole of getting a "good" set of chips to play with. What would you do as far as chip stacks, and qtys with your suggestion. Thanks for the help in advance.
I've been helping/running a cash game at a friend's place for over a year now, and after coming here, I've learned that we have been doing it all wrong. Now I need to try to fix it without losing the game.
We started with 1 table running .25/.50 with $20 buy-ins. The chip set we had to work with, of course, didn't have fracs, so someone decided we would just call every chip .25 and run with it. I know now, BAD idea. In the beginning though it worked because we only had 6-8 players. The last game we played, we had 18 or 19 guys play on 2 tables and we didn't have enough chips. I was late getting there, and they decided to just short stack everyone, and go with it. Whatever.
Now I need to make some changes but don't want to lose the group we have. Myself and a few others really enjoy playing poker, unfortunately, many just play to play, and because $20 doesn't hurt the pocket, they just play dumb. It's your money, play how you want, but c'mon. I would hate to raise the stakes and lose some of the beginners that are trying to learn. At the same time, how do we get it to be taken a bit more seriously? What would you change to make it better?
Also, I am going down the rabbit hole of getting a "good" set of chips to play with. What would you do as far as chip stacks, and qtys with your suggestion. Thanks for the help in advance.