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Bill & Karen’s Home Poker Tourneys

Welcome to our home poker tourney page. This is where you’ll find all the information about the home games we run. If you’re a friend who’s already played in our group, then you probably already know most of this stuff- this is mainly for the newbies.

We host these primarily to have fun and socialize with our friends. We’ve averaged about one a month over the past year, and the largest we’ve had so far has been 24 people. I think I better finish up that next table! J

We allow (and encourage) social drinking at our tourneys but you must be 21 to drink (and 18 to play). Please do not get too sloshed to behave properly. And we will not let you drive away intoxicated. We have plenty of floor space (if you’re drunk you won’t care if you’re sleeping on the floor), or we can call you a cab. (You CAB!) Oh, and no swimming drunk. We have a non-smoking house, but you are welcome to fire up your smokes out on the porch with Tammy. All we ask is that folks bring their fair share of munchies, drinks, etc.

We don’t have a ton of rules, but what we do use is pretty much standard etiquette in casinos and poker tourneys.

Since the tourneys have gotten larger, we usually only play one in a given night. Often, we will have a cash ring game (such as 50¢/$1.00 limit) start up as people drop out of the tourney. The tourneys typically run around 4 ½- 5 hours.

New- Check out the info on our Poker League!

We have several tourney configurations which we play. Our standard starting chip count is 185 (T185) in the following denominations:

$1 (white) – 10

$5 (red) – 10

$25 (green) – 5

Single Add-on Tournament

$15 buy-in (T185)

This is the most common structure that we run and is the format we use for sanctioned league events. One $15 re-buy (T185) available, any time up to the start of level 5, regardless of chip count.

From each buy-in, $12 is allocated to the prize pool, $1 goes to the high hand pot, and $2 goes towards the championship prize pool. The re-buy fees are allocated the same way.

Multiple Re-buy Tournament

$12 buy-in (T185)

Unlimited $5 re-buys (T185) available, any time up to the start of level 5, if you are at zero chips. One $5 add-on (T185) available at the break between level 4 & 5, regardless of chip count.

The prize pool is comprised of all add-on & re-buy money, plus $10 of each player’s buy-in. The other $2/player goes into the high hand pot.

No Re-buy Tournament

$15 buy-in (T185)

No re-buys. Prize pool is $10 per player. The other $5 per player is to purchase a ‘knockout token’. If a player is all in, they also put one KO token into the pot. Tokens are cashed in for $5 each after the tourney.

Whack-a-Mole nite

Occasionally we’ll designate a tourney to be Whack-a-Mole nite. We set aside $1 or $2 from each buy-in to make up the “Mole Money”. Each player will draw from a bag of chips at the start of the tourney. All the chips are identical except for one. Whichever player draws that chip is the Mole, and whoever knocks out the Mole wins the Mole money. No one knows what chip anyone draws- ie, you hide your chip when you draw it, so the only person who knows who the Mole is, is the Mole himself. As each player is knocked out, they reveal their secret chip to show if they were the Mole. If the Mole wins the tourney, he/she wins the Mole Money.

Prize pool: based on # of entries as follows:

		# of entries in tournament
		9-10	11-15	16-20	21-25	26-30
Finish	1st	65%	55%	50%	47%	46%
	2nd	35%	30%	25%	23%	22%
	3rd	x	15%	14%	13%	12%
	4th	x	x	11%	10%	9%
	5th	x	x	x	7%	6%
	6th	x	x	x	x	5%

The blinds schedule was tweaked for 2006, to make it slightly less aggressive.

2006						Elapsed
Level	Small	Big	Time	bb incr	incr rate	minutes	hours
L1	1	2	25			25	0.42
L2	2	4	25	2		50	0.83
L3	4	8	25	4	2	75	1.25
L4	7	14	25	6	2	100	1.67
break			10			110	1.83
L5	10	20	20	6	0	130	2.17
L6	15	30	20	10	4	150	2.50
L7	25	50	20	20	10	170	2.83
L8	40	80	20	30	10	190	3.17
L9	60	120	15	40	10	205	3.42
L10	90	180	15	60	20	220	3.67
L11	125	250	15	70	10	235	3.92
L12	175	350	15	100	30	250	4.17
L13	250	500	10	150	50	260	4.33
L14	350	700	10	200	50	270	4.50
L15	500	1000	10	300	100	280	4.67
L16	700	1400	10	400	100	290	4.83
L17	1000	2000	10	600	200	300	5.00
L18	1500	3000	10	1000	400	310	5.17

2005 Blinds:

1 – 2 (20mins)

2 – 4 (20mins)

4 – 8 (20mins)

7 – 15 (20mins)

Break (color up whites)

10 – 20 (15mins)

20 – 40 (15mins)

40 – 80 (15mins)

75 – 150 (15mins) (color up reds)

100 – 200 (10mins)

200 – 400 (10mins)

300 – 600 (10mins)

500 – 1000 (10mins)

Doubles every 10 minutes after level 12

We use The Tournament Director software to run our tournaments. I highly recommend it.

Is this illegal?

No. Our home tourneys are not raked, and we do not ask for nor accept ‘donations’ (although we do ask everyone to byob and some food to share). Unraked home poker games are not a violation of the Ohio gambling laws (ORC §2915), according to the Ohio Attorney General.

Upcoming Tourneys

Date: Nov 11^th

Championship Event

Location:

Bill & Karen’s

Time:

7:00pm

Previous Results

2006 Results

Event 10

September 16^th

1^st Pat D

2^nd Kurt M

3^rd Jason T

4^th Jeannie G

Event 9

August 26^th

1^st Tammy C

2^nd Karen W

3^rd Kim Y

4^th Jeff D

Event 8

August 5^th

1^st Bill W

2^nd Matt H

3^rd Karen W

4^th Jeannie G

5^th Kim Y

6^th Deb D

Event 7

July 15^th

1^st Eric D

2^nd Jeannie G

3^rd Charlie L

4^th Matt H

5^th Gerry G

Event 6

June 10^th

1^st Don P

2^nd Deb D

3^rd Pat D

4^th John C

5^th James D

Event 5

May 27^th

1^st Charlie L

2^nd Jeannie G

3^rd Gerry G

4^th Gary C

Event 4

May 6^th

1^st Kim Y

2^nd Karen W

3^rd Jenny K

4^th Kurt M

Event 3

April 22^nd

1^st Jeff D

2^nd Kurt M

3^rd Charlie L

4^th Pat D

5^th Gary C

Event 2

March 25^th

1^st James D

2^nd Matt D

3^rd Bill W

4^th Pat D

5^th Cat E

Event 1

March 4^th

1^st Bill W

2^nd Jeff D

3^rd Gerry G

4^th Kim Y

5^th Deb D

Complete Results

2005 Results

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