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[Rhodeman77]

Well it’s been 3 weeks since I hosted a game and I need a fix!! Family life has been very busy and the new (soft) game I found have been hoarding my time. But I need to get MY chips into play.

Had a few regulars text me the last few days asking about a game so after a few more texts I was able to fill the table up pretty easy for Thursday Night Poker after a long hiatus of trying other nights.

Getting the recently expanded Casino Cancun’s into play. Plan on getting all 10 racks of $5’s on the table before breaking out the $25’s. It may look more like a limit game than a PLO game!

 

[davin]

Well it’s been 3 weeks since I hosted a game and I need a fix!! Family life has been very busy and the new (soft) game I found have been hoarding my time. But I need to get MY chips into play.

Had a few regulars text me the last few days asking about a game so after a few more texts I was able to fill the table up pretty easy for Thursday Night Poker after a long hiatus of trying other nights.

Getting the recently expanded Casino Cancun’s into play. Plan on getting all 10 racks of $5’s on the table before breaking out the $25’s. It may look more like a limit game than a PLO game!

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this is going to be so epic wish i could play in a game like that

 

[BigToeMike]

Wow. I am jealous of your guests. Best of luck in the inaugural Casino Cancun game.

 

[detroitdad]

Getting the recently expanded Casino Cancun’s into play. Plan on getting all 10 racks of $5’s on the table before breaking out the $25’s

In my limited experience at your place this should happen within two hours of the game starting?

 

[Rhodeman77]

The game was slow to start, 3 handed for the first 45 minutes. But it was good for me going up $200 in that time.

We got up to 8 players and are currently at 6 players.

In for $300 sitting on a stack a dollars short of $1k

 

[Highli99]

Love those Cancun’s

 

[Rhodeman77]

Lots of Redbirds in play!

 

[Rhodeman77]

The big winners final stack. We played 5 handed until 4 am. I booked a win, but gave back a lot of what I was up in the last few hours as big stack seemed to make a full house every hand, even on boards where it wasn’t possible lol!

 

[Rhodeman77]

It’s game night!!! I have 8 players confirmed with a few possible later in the night.

My wife is making a big pot of sloppy Joes and there will be hot dogs on the roller as well.

Getting the PCA’s in play tonight.

 

[Emlemleml]

Lots of Redbirds in play!

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Question, what's the rack for?

 

[detroitdad]

Question, what's the rack for?

He rakes "x" amount of money out of every pot over 30 bucks? I believe the loot goes to pay for food, drinks, and the HH of the night?

 

[Rhodeman77]

Question, what's the rack for?

As @detroitdad said, any pot that hits $30 I take $3 out of. $2 of it goes towards the high hand and $1 to cover the food and drinks provided. We stop collecting at midnight when the high hand is paid out.

 

[detroitdad]

As @detroitdad said, any pot that hits $30 I take $3 out of. $2 of it goes towards the high hand and $1 to cover the food and drinks provided. We stop collecting at midnight when the high hand is paid out.

I had most of it right lol.

If anyone on PCF that is close to Adam and wants to be challenged at the poker table you should hit him up. I've played at his game twice and it is a blast. Its tough as shit, but a ton of fun.

 

[detroitdad]

My wife and son is heading to the Strongsville area next month. It just happens to be on the same day that I'm hosting the ME for my meet up.

 

[Rhodeman77]

My wife and son is heading to the Strongsville area next month. It just happens to be on the same day that I'm hosting the ME for my meet up.

And I’ll be driving back from your house at the same time as them lol.

 

[Emlemleml]

As @detroitdad said, any pot that hits $30 I take $3 out of. $2 of it goes towards the high hand and $1 to cover the food and drinks provided. We stop collecting at midnight when the high hand is paid out.

Cool, what stakes are you playing?

 

[Rhodeman77]

Cool, what stakes are you playing?

We play $1/2, $200-$300 starting buy in. Game is Hold’em and PLO round by round.

 

[detroitdad]

We play $1/2, $200-$300 starting buy in. Game is Hold’em and PLO round by round.

It's not really 1/2 though. Let's be honest lol

 

[Coyote]

We play $1/2, $200-$300 starting buy in. Game is Hold’em and PLO round by round.

Max $300 hard or half the big stack?

 

[Rhodeman77]

It's not really 1/2 though. Let's be honest lol

Any game with PLO is going to play much bigger than the equivalent Hold’em game.

It plays about the size a normal $2/5 Hold’em only game.

 

[Rhodeman77]

Max $300 hard or half the big stack?

1/2 the big stack is allowed too
But only a few of us ever use it. Most stick with $300 rebuys.

 

[Coyote]

1/2 the big stack is allowed too

Thx!

 

[Emlemleml]

Cool, it's nice to see how others have their game done

How did you approach your players with the 2+1 rake thing?
It seems like an good idea, but over here I'm not allowed to demand rake.
But maby I can ask for "tips" (but then I will feel like I'm begging), or settle with the group that all players "tips" an certain amount to cover food/drinks, the HH concept is cool too I guess
I'm not sure how to approach my guests with this subject.

Back in the day, we mostly played STT in a doll house (small cabin in the backyard) at my friends house, and everyone brought their own snacks and club soda and such, and we were under age, so we didn't make any real money.
But now I'm trying to create a group/playerpool to attend my home game.
And since I got a house and a tiny family I'd like to serve my poker guests some food, snacks and beverages, you know, because that's nice. But if I'd do this every time without charging/getting anything back from them, I would go bust..

 

[Rhodeman77]

Cool, it's nice to see how others have their game done

How did you approach your players with the 2+1 rake thing?
It seems like an good idea, but over here I'm not allowed to demand rake.
But maby I can ask for "tips" (but then I will feel like I'm begging), or settle with the group that all players "tips" an certain amount to cover food/drinks, the HH concept is cool too I guess
I'm not sure how to approach my guests with this subject.

Back in the day, we mostly played STT in a doll house (small cabin in the backyard) at my friends house, and everyone brought their own snacks and club soda and such, and we were under age, so we didn't make any real money.
But now I'm trying to create a group/playerpool to attend my home game.
And since I got a house and a tiny family I'd like to serve my poker guests some food, snacks and beverages, you know, because that's nice. But if I'd do this every time without charging/getting anything back from them, I would go bust..

Most of the players have played in other games that are really raked, like $3-$4 per hand or a $20 fee when you buy in. So $1 per hand for 5 hours is nothing to them especially with all that I provide for it. I have opened a bottle of JW Blue on occasion.

When I tell the new player about the game I’m up front about the $3 and how $2 of it goes right back to the players that night. I’ve never had a player say they won’t play because of it.

Technically my game could be considered illegal because of the $1 but I’m not concerned about it. I have a bunch of cops that play in it and those guys are degenerate gamblers lol!

 

[Coyote]

@Emlemleml if you 're hosting regularly (more so if you 're the only one ever hosting), you can ask for the cost of the food and soft drinks, divided by the number of players. That's acceptable even by ultra-hospitable Christian Orthodox standards
If you' re not hosting really regularly, you could ask for the individual cost only from winners in the end, and swallow the cost for the losers yourself, as the host.
Alcohol can be perceived as a gift anyway, either from the host (you should provide some) or from the invitees (the should bring as much as they feel they need).

@Rhodeman77 I understand you 're an ultra-fine PLO player, but wouldn't it be more ballanced to play 1/2 the NLHE orbits and 1/1 the PLO orbits?

 

[Rhodeman77]

@Rhodeman77 I understand you 're an ultra-fine PLO player, but wouldn't it be more ballanced to play 1/2 the NLHE orbits and 1/1 the PLO orbits?

I have thought that and even posed the question here a while back and the general consensus was it wasn’t a good idea.

 

[Rhodeman77]

An hour in and we are out of $5’s.

 

[Rhodeman77]

In for $500. Never went broke but had to add on twice. Just rivered the nut flush with two pair vs. the turned straight for a very nice pot.

 

[Rhodeman77]

Rivered the nut flush against two short stacks that went all in on the flop. Out of $25’s now too. Using the primary $100’s because I only have 10 of the secondary $100’s.

 

[Rhodeman77]

We just just had back to back straight flushes!

First hand flopped nut flush gets it all in with tilting semi drunk guy that flopped flush with open ended straight flush redraw and hits it in the river.

Very next hand guy flops the steel wheel and the other guy that made the straight flush the previous hand turns a set of 6’s and rivers 6’s full of 5’s and only calls the river bet. Mostly because he is scared of the guy and didn’t think about how strong his hand was. Normally he would yell out POT in that spot.