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Official Horse Race Game Thread (6 Viewers)

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Super rainy day in the DMV. My son was the big winner. My daughter just ahead. Despite winning early, I had a run of bad luck and had to buy-in again. Even winning this race and another didn’t help, and I still ended down.
 
swana said:
I've got a little bit of a dilemma...

I've aquired the chips for a new custom relabel set with a $0.50 being the smallest denom. I did this to help nudge my game into higher stakes beyond the $.25/.$50 game we play today (granted the game plays bigger with 200x bb buy in). However recently also introduced the horse race game which has been a huge hit and by popular demand will now be a fixture in my game moving forward. The dilemma is that using $.50 as the base bet for the horse race game AND a move up in stakes might be a little rich for my game.

I have not actually relabeled my chips yet so am contemplating 1) just changing what was going to be the $.50 to a $.25 and stick with a $.25/.50 game 2) keeping the $.50 chip which would cause a raise in poker stakes AND in horse race game stakes (which might turn off a few players). 3) keep the $ .50 denom and use $.25 chips from another set for the horse race game ONLY. My concern with this approach would be guys just reverting to $.25 / $.50 blinds given the chips are already on the table.

Thoughts?
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My $0.02 is, keep the stakes low. Reads like there might be some resistance from at least a few of your players of moving up. In the current environment, it's hard enough to keep people, never mind find new people. But if all your guys are fully onboard to moving up in stakes, then yeah, why wouldn't they move up on HRG too? It's all luck. I'd be more reluctant to move up in a poker because I'm a punter, LOL.
 
legonick said:
My $0.02 is, keep the stakes low. Reads like there might be some resistance from at least a few of your players of moving up. In the current environment, it's hard enough to keep people, never mind find new people. But if all your guys are fully onboard to moving up in stakes, then yeah, why wouldn't they move up on HRG too? It's all luck. I'd be more reluctant to move up in a poker because I'm a punter, LOL.
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You are right that I would prefer to keep my roster of players and the stakes low than up the stakes and have some leave!
 
Damn, I’m late to this party but I want one. The one that @WedgeRock has has the best holes pattern as far as odds are concerned, right? A buddy of mine is going to get a laser machine in a couple of months but then he has to learn how to use it. I want to have him make a personalized one but I don’t know if I can wait that long, haaa….
 
legonick said:
So to throw in my experience, and ask for suggestions on how to integrate this game....

This past Friday was a poker night for me. I picked up the game and figured we could play before the tournament, a round or 2, maybe 3. Doors opened at 7, game at 8. It's been rough getting people lately, so I had only 6, then got a 7th at the last minute, confirmed to play in the tournament.

Anyways, 1 guy got there right at 7, another a few minutes later. Then a big gap, and a few others came in later. I had set up for the horse game, so I was explaining it a bit, but didn't really want to play too short handed.

Anyways, as this is not really a group of heavy gamblers, we decided we'd play a round without money so people could get used to it. So we played with 5, just to get a feel for how many chips would be swinging around. It was a lot of fun, and people were getting the hang of it, and when the last 2 guys showed up right before start time at 8, they asked what all the hooting and hollering was about. But then it was time to clean up the horses and get to the "main event", and so we did.

The winning horse was a 4-way chop, I was the biggest loser as I was the 1 guy without a stake in him, another guy was 2nd biggest loser because he was scratching like crazy, but at least he'd get paid out his 1/4 pot.

So based on that, I'm thinking I might need to run a "horse night" or something like that. With this group, I don't think I could ask them to buy-in for more than the $20 buy-in that's already there for poker, or well, I should say, at least a few of them would balk at that.

Anyways, can one make an entire night of horse racing? A good amount of my guys are in the "friends" category and don't really like sweating the poker action anyways. Maybe they'd be more willing to get off their asses for a game night if there was no poker. But I'm not sure horses could sustain an entire night...maybe it should be paired with some other awesome game? Or maybe just variance in stakes would make it fun for a longer time? Like play 3 really small games, like $0.05/$0.10/$0.15/$0.20, then 3 medium games, $0.25/$0.50/$0.75/$1.00, then 1 big game for anyone who really wants to gamble it up, $1/$2/$3/$4?

Thoughts? Thanks for any input you guys have. This is a
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LeGold said:
Hmmmmm....

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Haaa!! I was eyeballing my kids old legos thinking, “ I can make one out of these…”
 
I suspect someone at FINENI is looking at recent sales data and all like… “We’ve done it! We’ve gone viral! 10x production now! Give it everything we have! We’re gonnna sell these by the millions!”
 
warma said:
I suspect someone at FINENI is looking at recent sales data and all like… “We’ve done it! We’ve gone viral! 10x production now! Give it everything we have! We’re gonnna sell these by the millions!”
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I alone counted for 3 sales (although 2 got returned, so they probably barely broke even on me, LOL). First 2 pine boards were warped. 3rd "deluxe" guy - cherry, I think - flat as my...abs? I wish.
 
WedgeRock said:
We left the aces and kings in per @Moxie Mike's suggestion (aces cancel a scratch penalty and are discarded, kings pass the scratch penalty to the left and are discarded). We found that it reduced the pots (because the 3x or 4x penalty was always skipped).
  • We changed the rules so that kings passed the fine to the left (as before), but aces pass the fine to the right.
  • We also made the fines double each time it was passed, so a 4x fine became 8x if passed once and 16x if passed a second time. This can get out of control quickly (I had to pay a 128x fine -- $32 in a base 25¢ game), so for a more tame game, try an incremental increase (1x-->2x-->3x-->4x-->5x, etc. instead of 1x-->2x-->4x-->8x-->16x) Either way, it's fun as a $1 fine becomes $4 or $8 or more and it adds a decision of when to play an A or K and when to hold on to them; it also builds the pot.
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Further tweak: The A or K of spades cancels further passing of the that fine (but future fines may still be passed).
 

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