Video 20 - Home Poker Tutorial - CASH GAME - Starting Stack and Break Down
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2024
- Finally a new video!
This time I look at the perfect starting stack and chip breakdown for hosting a cash game at home! But there's a lot more to think about for hosting a cash game than a tournament!
I spend a lot of time mulling over STAKES - how much should you play for? It's not easy to decide, ponder carefully!
If you're looking to get ahold of custom plaques for your mix games like I show in the video, check out smartsign.com and click on "Custom Plastic Signs". - my plaques are 2x4 inch plastic - and they weren't cheap!
Thanks so much for watching - be sure to comment, like and subscribe and let me know if I missed anything or made any mistakes, thanks!
happy to see a channel that advocates lower stakes and friendships over profits. also, sweet chips
I had a "higher stakes" game once and it turned out to be a disaster.. especially with "friends of friends" who wanted to play. Rude, obnoxious and just an overall bad time. I said to myself, that would be the last time. So now, $25 buy-in... buy back up to a certain time in the night and fun for everyone. You don't break the bank if you lose, but can win some beer (or whatever) money and be happy. Some people are way too competitive, especially when it comes to money... turns to anger and that is a no-no in my house.. ever.
after many years of doing $50 buyin.. we changed to a $60 buy-in because people tend to bring $20 bills.. made change easier when game is starting.
Great video Chris. Very nice to have your insight after many years of hosting.
Been looking for a detailed video like this forever! Thank you
Thanks so much for makig these videos Chris. It means alot to some people who want to start a legit game themsleves to see a guy who's done this for a long time.
Love your philosophy on the home game experience! friendship and fellowship!
just found your channel randomly. ive been going down this poker rabbit hole for a few months now and enjoy finding new opinions and visual content, so this is cool, good work friend
Great video, This is what I was planning to run at my game. Glad to hear it echoed from an experienced source.
Thanks for the video, helped a lot!! Glad I asked for this in your last video!!!
This is the most helpful video out there when buying cash game chips. I am ordering a custom set to cover all three of these stakes because different friends play for different amounts and I want to accommodate all. Thank you for this breakdown
This guy has excellent content. Make the stakes low enough that it's fun and the game is sustainable!
Nice videos man! Defiantly subscribed. Been hosting cash games for a few years starting to set up tournament style!
Used your starting stack breakdowns for my $60 buy-in cash game last night. Worked out very well! Highly recommend 💲😎
Great video. I run a 10c/20c $50 buy in home game with work colleagues. It's more about team building but still gets exciting. The level of skill is knowledgeable players to people that need a print out of the hands ranking so it's just all about fun and fellowship.
We recently bumped our home game after 5 years at $0.50-$1 blinds to $1-$2, and the action was a lot more lively. Everyone loved it. That, along with the $3 bomb pots over 20-30mins made for a really fun cash game. We recently called an end to our poker year due to the holidays, but we're all really looking forward to next year.
you are awesome. I've been looking for comprehensive explanation but your is an example!
As a legal alternative to raking, ask the guys for donations. If its between friends they understand that chips cost money and they are guests in your home. A honor system for the beer cooler with tip jar can also work out
I just make the guys buy beer, drinks, and food and I provide chips and the area to play. It’s great getting free food and beer every other weekend and I get to play some poker with friends
@@juanrivera6207exactly, "invest" in a poker table, chips and a couple of deck cards and every weekend you can expect free drinks and food with your friends.
Five card draw, seven card stud, good to see. Playing the same game all night I understand if it's a designated tournament, but in a "neighborhood game" it's good to mix it up. This game should never be boring. Well done.
Can you do a video on home game etiquette and/or how to introduce new players to the game?
Thank you for all of the awesome tips! I wish I could find a game like yours. Seems really professional yet fun. I am also a chip fanatic lol
I have two questions, what is a reload and how many time you can do the reload?
Hey. Your videos are great. Suggested video. Your poker tables, cost and what you recommend people do etc. And how you manage a 2+ table tournament i.e. moving people to a table with less people etc
Thank you so much, Chris. Your videos are informative and very well done... p.s. nice chips!
Love your videos. Learning a lot.
Do you take requests for reviewing poker chips. I have a entry level set but would love to hear your take on them.
Nice video, nice channel. You’ve got me hooked
Would love a video on how you manage your bounty rules in your various games. Interested in upping the interest in my hosted games.
Amazing video thank you. I’ve probably watched it 10 times lol.
Think I’m going to get a cash game set of the Milano chips as they’re well reviewed and in my budget. Unfortunately they don’t have a $20 in this set and the $25 is sold out. Would you recommend adding an extra rack or 2 of 5s or would 40 $50s + 60 $5s be better?
This was super helpful!!! Thank you!!
nice to find your channel!
Hey Chris, thanks for these videos love the channel. Modeled my first home game off them and it went perfect. Have since joined the PCF and have been eyeballing lots of new chips ! Hope you keep the videos coming
Thanks for all the videos.. I am a newbie and thinking about hosting a tournament at my place... I am excited but also very confused as to what chipset I should be looking for to start with.. I love your Aurora sets you have. So I would be bringing 8 friends to the game and only the one table.. Could you suggest some decent chips I could look at purchasing? Thanks again!
I've run home games on and off over 20 years and I absolutely LOVE $20 chips. Once I got some I noticed I didn't have to load my payout box with (real money) $1 & $5s like I did before. I'd suggest anyone starting a home game to make sure you get a set with those $20 chips.
Also it's interesting how we both use near similar game stakes and starting stacks even though I'm in small town Iowa. Great minds, ha ha
Hey can you make a video on what the starting stack should be for a high roller game that is 3m a hand. Also if you could include the 500,000k and 1m plaque part of the stack
Hey great video, I would like to get more infos on exactly how the reload works (limited to one time per player only or inifinite 100$ reload)
I do agree with running stakes one level lower than the casino to maintain a regular home game. My oldest poker crew was mostly casino players and we originally played a weekly $2/4 limit before NL was in casinos. When AC adopted NL they all demanded $1/2 NL. I warned them they wouldn’t want to show up every week and they disagreed. Well the game fell apart to the point we were playing once every other month at most. All the sudden people were “busy”. I took a few years off from poker and then started with a new group. They also play $1/2 at the casino but we do .50/1 at home. The game is very easy to get together on a regular basis and has been for a few years
those chips are sweet great video
Very nicely broken down
Can you make a video about how to keep track as a banker for a home game?
You should make a video on the difference between tournament poker and cash game.
Hi Chris! Thanks voor your video’s, they have really helped me so far! Some suggestions of things I’d love to see:
- Chip breakdown for a high roller tournament (5K, 25K, 100K, 500K, 1M denoms).
- best payout structure for a tournament
- your 10 biggest tips for organizing a home tournament. I’m interested in what is the best way to speed things up if you notice play is slow and you want the guests out of your garrage in time.
- Best ways to store your chips / plaques collection
Keep up the good work!! :)
These are great suggestions, thanks so much!
The highroller chip breakdown I do really want to do, but honestly I’ve never run a highroller tournament, and the structure is a bit vexing to me. As soon as this pandemic thing subsides, I’m definitely going to host a highroller tournament with the royal chips, and from there I might be able to do a breakdown/structure video for it.
Can’t you use the same structure he outlines for a 20k stack? Instead of 8 25s you get 8 25ks, instead of 8 100s you get 8 100ks, etc. everything would just be 1,000x what it should be. Idk what the point of that is, but it works.
@chrismanzoni3586 hey Chris don't know if you will see this but was wondering how you cash out using cash.....ex someone buys in for $50 and cashes out for $51.25 how do I deal with the cents. I May be over thinking it but I thought I'd ask a pro!
I do a $30 buy in $20 goes to the prize and $10 goes into buying drinks and snacks for everyone. I don't even play, I'm the dedicated dealer and everyone has a good time and it's winner takes all. If I have money left over from the snaks and drinks then I add that money to the prize pool. Every play group is different and this might not work for everyone but it works for us and loosing 20 doesn't feel so bad but winning more than 100 and getting food and drinks feels great.
Awesome video Chris, I aspire to have such a cool homegame like yours, those paulson chips are to die for🤤!! We have the same exact stakes in my home game - I have a question for you, when you play fixed limit mixed games, what stakes do you play when the no limit games are .25/.50? I always have a hard time deciding.
We do .50/$1 blinds with $1 small bet and a $2 big bet. For stud games every player posts a .25¢ ante and we have a.50¢ bring-in with a $1 small bet on the first two streets of betting and a $2 big bet thereafter.
@@chrismanzoni3586 I have since seen more of your videos and this is exactly the stakes we play now! We literally played it last night! Thanks man for the content - LA home games for the win!
You could cut out a rack of quarters and should still have plenty for $0.25/$0.50, especially if you have an extra roll of $20s or $25s. That is if you only usually have one table to play on. 200 quarters would be great for two or more tables. Having 200 for one table might seem a bit much, but understandable if it helps have players feel like high rollers having lots of chips in front of them.
I do admit having a roll of quarters is great to not having to count out chips for a starting stack, but it would be great to cut out a rack of quarters to use for either more $1's, $5's, and/or $20's/$25's. Especially since, as you said, in most games people would raise close to or right on $1 and just throw a $1 chip. Plus allocating that 2nd rack of quarters for any other higher denomination, such as $5s or $20s/$25s, would help future proof one's set once their group gets comfortable enough to play higher stakes up to 1/1, or even 1/2.
Andy Smith I agree with you. One of our games is at these stakes. I’m the chip guy in the group. The best stack is $2 in quarters, $18 in $1, and 6x$5. Reloads with $1s and $5s. I have 280x$1s, but 200 is perfect. I would get 300 5s. I wouldn’t introduce a 4th denom w a $25.
Also depends on how the game plays. Lots of PF limping and calls? I could see how 2 racks of fracs could work. Personally think that more than 1 rack of fracs for a single table is a waste. Better to focus on your workhorse chips, which are $5s for our games
Great philosophy. F and F. My dad said you don't work for friends or relatives.
Love it!
Thanks for a great breakdown! So you have $750 in chips. 10-handed buy-in takes $500. Is $250 enough to support top-ups and rebuys in your game?
Really helpful video
So I have a home game it’s a 30 buy in lots of new players can you make chips simple with just generic colors and how would you make the starting stack
Very well done, informative, easy-to-follow cash game poker chip tutorial. The .25/.50 blind structure with $50 max buy in and $100 rebuy is a great way to structure a friendly home game. Those poker chips are awesome but all your excellent advice begs the question, why use poker chips at all in a friendly, low limit cash game? The blinds are a quarter and fifty cents so all you really need are rolls of quarters, 1 dollar bills, 5 dollar bills and some larger denomination paper money. I understand chips will make it easy for side pots, split pots and quickly determining how much a player has in front of him but cash worked just fine in the Old West and would also work in your garage.
Thanks for your kind words - but have you seen my channel? Ha ha! If you hadn't noticed I'm a bit obsessed with poker chips!!! I'm sure cash would work fine, but for me it's all about the aesthetics and the feel! Nothing for me beats poker chips!
Coins are very difficult to handle. It would drastically slow down the game, you can’t stack or count them as easily
Great videos Chris 👍🏻 Now let’s see a review of the Scrub Donkey chips 🤣
Tony Parris LMAO and the Hard Candy Holdem chips
I missed out on the scrub donkey chips group buy, initially they struck me as not really my thing, but I have to admit they are so insane as to be pretty spectacular in a giant piles or in stacks. I think if I did own a set I would want to own every single denomination and also use every single denomination in play, so I would have like eight different chips in a cash game, seems only right!
I like a lot of your signs! where did you get the "No One Cares What You Folded" sign?
Thanks so much, I ordered the signs off of smartsign.com, which is just a spectacular site. All of my big metal traffic signs are custom, the big yellow metal sign was not cheap, but everyone in the garage loves it.
Man those chips are awesome
Question why give them a stack of $5 when they reload, wont that be a problem when the blinds are 25 and 50cents, sorry new to poker
There are already plenty of quarters on the table, if you're using my starting stacks and are 10 handed there's 200 of them out there! It's better to have other players make change for the reloads, so you're not drowning in smaller chips.
Nice video. What's a link I can get those chips?
Damn you really do care about friends if you are playing with those beautiful Paulsons!
He has said before that his home game has been going for over 10 years.
Why own them if you're not going to play with them! Generally you don't buy super nice chips for your friends, you buy them for yourself. 9/10 they don't care about the chips and may say oh they are nice in a passing thought. However, I find that having nice components makes for a more enjoyable game that keeps people coming back, whether they recognise that or not :D
This is exactly the video I was looking for. I was looking for 25-50 cent games and everything else was $25-50 blinds and that’s just ridiculous for me and my friends lol
I don’t know where you were looking but $25/$50 is very rare. That’s closer to mid-high stakes, most casinos would’ve even offer this game
i would do 25c/25c and cap it at 50 so still the same but feels like u have more of a stack
Also, just awesome chips!
Just to confirm, buy in for $50, top up to $50 anytime, if felted they can reload for $100.
Is there a max loss? Like they can only reload once, or do you let them continue to reload multiple times?
I want to use monte Carlo chips, yet they only have 50c as the lowest denomination (on the closest online shop to my country and it is in my country) So can i use the exact breakdown with the 25c replaced by 50c so its a $55 buy in with $110 max reload with 50c/ $1 blinds? Also can I use $10 dollar cuz there is no $20 dollar chips available in my country. So instead of a barrel of $20’s I will have 2 Barrel’s of $10’s
A while ago I used to host poker games where limits were $200 buy in and $1/$2 blinds. After a few months of hosting, a few shady people started to show up invited by my friends. They were anglers, card markers and colluders. I began to lay down house rules and of course the shady guys didn't like it. They began being verbally abusive and hostile. Little did they know that i had 3 fully grown pit bulls that I then introduced to them. I told them they could either leave with their stacks or stay and see what my pits had to say. Unsurprisingly they left and never came back.
Its always the people trying to scam you that get the most aggressive when you call them out on it
Would you do the same total chips if you used 25 c, 50 c, and 1 instead?
I received my Majestic 5/25/100 chips the other day. I have them stored in the aluminum case. should I remove the plastic from the "barrels"? Thank you.
I don’t think the plastic will harm them, but I’m not an expert. I know it will keep the dust off, I would not leave the plastic on indefinitely just out of caution, cause you never know after an extended period of time what might happen.
Wow, that is a significantly larger starting stack than I use. I have a $20 buy in and I only give out 25 chips. (12-.25, 12-$1, and 1-$5). I did this because the older WSOP Main Event stack was 25 chips. However, after watching this video, I may start my initial stacks higher.
I have tiki kings 200 standard denom except the $.25 chips which I customed to $15 blue for a grand total of 1400 set. Can you ballpark me for good starting on all the stacks. Also buy ins and everything else u covered. Never tried hosting but I wanna try. Also will have plaques 10/5000 10/25000 should I buy more and if so how many?
Good vid
Hi Chris!
If you don't rake your game how do you manage all the expenses?
I want to host my first game with players that are not necessarily my friends (yet), but good people haha... this are the things I have in my mind that I think I need to take care of but I don't know if I can keep the game over time if I'm paying for all... consider this will be a standard 9 handed cash game or tournament.
- Dealer (Do your players deal themselves? Do you pay for a professional dealer?)
- Drinks (Is it ok if I sell drinks (Beer, Soda, Water) to the same price I bought it? Does your players go get there with their own drinks?
- Food (I was just thinking in some snacks but I don't know if thats ok or if I need to consider a full dinner meal)
- The place itself. Do you clean everything yourself?
Thank you very much for your videos, you are awesome!
Greetings from Mexico!
Poker for me is a hobby - a hobby that I love - but just a hobby. In that way, poker is like a lot of things I love - movies, board games, food and so on. If I have guests in my house over to watch a movie, or play a board game, or sit down to a meal - I would never dream of charging them to offset the expense of the evening's activities.
I look at poker the same way I look at hosting a party, or a dinner or a movie or any gathering.. I'm not playing the poker to make money necessarily (beyond what I may win as a way of keeping score), and I'm not hosting to make money or even to break even. I'm hosting because I love playing with my friends in my home.
I would be very careful about charging people in your house to play poker. I don't know what the laws are in Mexico, but in California it's illegal.
To answer your other questions -
We self deal. We are all friends and keep it casual.
I don't serve alcohol in my home as I don't drink at all. People are welcome to bring their own beer or other alcoholic beverages. Most of my friends are pretty focused on playing poker, so it's a pretty sober game.
I have snacks for poker time, and they're always pretty basic - a bag of chips, maybe some cookies, mixed nuts and that's about it.
Since my game is in my garage I routinely set up and break down all the tables and chairs, as we park our cars in the garage when we're not playing. I use a leaf blower to clean out the dirt every other week or so.
I host the games for my friends. Each game one of the players brings pizzas, snacks and soft drinks (for those driving). Everyone gives that player £5 to cover the cost.
Players bring their own beer, whisky etc.
We’ve been doing this for years and it works well. Like Chris says the idea is to have a good laugh with friends and to keep them wanting to come back to the next game. Visit Poker Chip Forum and you’ll find lots of great advice on hosting games there.
I do venmo bank so there is no cash involved at the table, nothing to rob and people don't have to worry about hitting up an ATM. It's been a huge success since I switched over to in 2019
This is the majority of our home games as well, most people use Venmo. Easy to pay back as well, don’t have to give out change
Why the bigger denoms for rebuys? I’m new to this so I don’t get how they’ll be able to play with the rebuy when the denom is so much bigger than the blinds? Do they trade them with other players for smaller denoms?
Whoever rebuys/reloads with the bigger chips can make change the table from other players, then the other players can have them in their stack.
Good GRAVY...250 BAR TAB....!!!. I'd never make it in Cali.
Yeah that’s wild. Call me stingy but I wouldn’t want to spend more than $20-$30 at a bar, max
I know that my question has nothing to do about this video but, about the ¢25 Chips, are beige?
What I do; The winner who takes it all buys for the all drinks at the end (with limitations ofc) . It's a great way because if you lost you atleast had some "free drinks". And it's funny because we are starting to say mid-game; yo stop drinking it's my money you're using there xD it's fun.
Hey Chris,
For micro game set up how do we cash out the player? Do I need to carry nickels ? Or how does that work?
I'd think having a roll of nickels and quarters on hand would work well enough, in addition to possibly having a few $1s.
How do you cash people out when your playing 5/10 cents or 25/50 cents if everyone is buying in with bills ? Does the host need to have lots of change ?
I don't have quarters or any coins in my cash box. If the payout amount involves quarters, as we do play with quarters/fracs on the table, I typically round down and keep the change in the cash box, which means I do technically "rake" the leftover quarters in the form of a dollar bill or two.
I don't keep this extra money for myself, it always goes back to players in one way or another. Dollar bills are handy to make change and break larger bills. If I have accumulated five or more of them I use them to buy bottled water and/or snacks. I'm always very up front with my players about this - I say "and the bank is keeping your 50 cents to make change later or buy water later" and they are cool with it.
If your players are not okay with this micro-rake for making change in the future or purchasing water/snacks, then it would be good to have a big jar of change (including whatever denoms you are using if you are playing micro-stakes, such as nickels, dimes and quarters) so you can make your change exact.
After a huge amount of argument and discussion and after years at least, Victoria Coren's home game stakes were raised from 20p to 25p! 😊
Thank you. Hard to find a good game since moving to Ohio.
Recommendations for $.25/.$25, $25 buy-in, $50 reload?
Hey, I’m going to do a chipset that can range from 25/50c to 50c/$1
I’ve decided on 625 chips
200 25c
200 $1
150 $5
50 $25
25 $100
What do you think of the breakdown? Would that also give me a bit of wiggle room to range at difference stakes (maybe even a bit at 1-2 some random days ?). I’m stumped on this one
Please let me know if you’d recommend reallocating to other chips like the 5s .
Ps, I’m aware I don’t need the $100 but I love the style of them so I wanted to have a barrel to complete my set
Good
Also, you could recommend having $0.25/$0.25 blind games if players don't want to have as high of a buy in as $0.25/$0.50 but have a hard time getting $0.05 chips for their set. Buy ins can be $25 max, just $5 more than a $0.10/$0.20 game, and save their money on higher counts of larger denominated chips. Especially since in the $0.05/$0.10 & $0.10/$0.20 games the nickel chips would be used mostly for the blind bets.
If you were doing 0.25/0.25, would 20x0.25 20x1.00 and 1x5.00 be okay for a starting stack?
@@JohnDoe-on1xb If that's your preference, or you players like having a lot of chips, sure. It would work fine for having 5-6 players and get all of the quarters and $1s on the felt.
Personally I, and everyone else I play with, prefer to have starting stacks instead of full barrel (20ct.). I like to have my starting stacks as the following:
12x 25c
17x $1
Xx $5.
I played in a random 0.50/1 game years ago that gave everyone a barrel (20ct.) of quarters, and later had so many quarters it felt like it was unnecessary, especially for the blinds at that time; even though there were many chips, they're not entirely valuable compared to the $1 and $5 chips, which are the real workhorse chips for .25/.25 & .25/.50 ($1s and $1s & $5s respectively).
Where can you buy the Aurora set? Those are pretty chips!
They are not available via retail, stalk the classifieds on PokerChipForum.com and you may see them once in awhile. They are considerably more expensive now than they were when I purchased them several years ago.
Can someone tell me the chip values and how many chips each for a $5 tournament game with one rebuy (for a table of 9)?
I was wondering if i play like 10 dollar for 300€ stack how do you do it with payout if im like just playing with 6 friends
That seems a bit tricky math wise. My game is built for $100 stack, So theoretically you could just triple my breakdown and be fine
For cash games, how do you end it? Do you set a certain time that everyone counts up their chips and cashes out?
Can people cash out at any time? If someone wins a big pot can they just get up and cash out?
I use Evite for inviting people and keeping track of who’s coming, and I always put an end time. For our game it is 1 AM, I always let people know a half hour before hand, at one you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here, always with a smile of course!
To answer your question about cashing out, I put in the Evite the standard cash game etiquette for our game - “A minimum of two buy-ins or three hours of play is expected and always appreciated.
I ask players to give 30 min notice before they plan to leave. We usually have people play between 2 and 5 hours. When it’s down to 3 or 4 players we agree to let the button go one or two more times around and call it a night.
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If I am playing a micro game with .25/.25 with a $20 buy-in what should my denominations be ? And what is my starting stack?
20 quarters, 15 dollars; it's what he said for having nickels in the game without losing the two quarters for nickels
How do you cash people out? What if you just have a roll of 20's? Do you ask people to pay with smaller bills?
I always buy myself in with at least $40 of one dollar bills. I never rely on my players to bring change
What would u recomend to play with friends cash game or tournament
Both are great in their own way. Tournaments will always be more popular and get more players, so if you are interested in building a game I would highly recommend having a regularly scheduled tournament. Cash games are a lot easier to set up and run, but harder to recruit players as folks are always concerned about going broke. For sure I get the most joy out of playing cash with my best friends in my game, so less players is not that big a deal. As long as we can get at least six players it’s game on!
@@chrismanzoni3586 yeah i will be mostly playing with 6 people max and good friends so regular people who come im thinking about getting a 500 case and get 8-25 8-100 6-500 6-1000 2-5000 i will get enough chips to play 8 people and fill the rest of the 500 case with 1 and 5 so i can also play low stakes
Best thing for security regarding having large sums of money is to remove the money all together. Have everyone create a Venmo or equivalent money payment app account, and have people pay you that way. No physical money on site, and it's super easy to cash people out at the end of the night.
You make a good point, and I do agree. If you are concerned at all about security in a home game, especially if you are playing mid or high steaks, Venmo is for sure the way to go.
It is much easier to pay people out with Venmo, especially at smaller/micro stakes. you don’t want the hassle of keeping up with coins to pay people their change with
ya we play 25 cent 50 cent cash game
How many chips for about 4 players would you recommend?
Wanna play a cash game, tournament or both?
Why only give 5's for reload? Do they exchange them for smaller denominations with players who are deep stacked?
Yep, otherwise you’ll end up with stacks and stacks of low value chips at the table
Yeah and do it the same way in a rebuy tournament. No need to add in more small value chips, just buy them up from the table.
Yes, at these stakes I only give 5's for reloads - they then get change from other players at the table. Eventually if I run out of 5s I give $20s for reloads.
What are the folding chairs there in the back?
Not sure if these are them but I really like the padded folding chairs from costco, very affordable and comfortable.
Yes, Costco specials!
What would a chip breakdown look like for $0.25/$0.25 blinds?
Exactly what's in the video - 200 each of .25 fracs (though you could get by with half) $1s and $5s. At these stakes $20s are fun to have but not required.
What do you recommend for a minimum buy in for a .25/.50 game I was thinking of running a cash game in the future but wasn’t sure how much I was thinking either $20 or $25
I would recommend that 100 big blinds be your buy in, so if you want a $25 buy in you would have .25/.25 blinds. A $50 buy in could play with .25/.50
Christopher M. So pretty much the minimum and max amount for a .25/.50 game is $50
Rob2143Rocko Gaming As an initial buy-in I would recommend 100 big blinds, and allow players to top off to that amount at any time. Once a player loses all their chips I would allow them to reload for up to 200 big blinds, so in the case of a .25/.50 game that would be $100. Some home games have different guidelines, but that’s the method that I use and it helps to keep the stakes lower.
@@chrismanzoni3586 So if a person is felted you would let them buy in for an additional $100?
@@archerscherer44 Yes, if they are down to the felt they may reload for up to $100. This is my max buy in for the stakes I host. Some hosts allow a buy-in up to half the biggest stack or as big as the biggest stack, these methods make for a bigger game.
Where is Chris
Milano poker player photos?
How many quarters do you have on hand for cashing out?
I have 300 on hand, more than I actually need, I could likely get by with 100, my video recommends 200, so everybody can get a full barrel (20) but everyone getting 10 quarters would likely be sufficient.
@@chrismanzoni3586 I mean actually physical quarters not poker chips. If everyone buys in for $50, people surely cash out with fractions not whole dollars.
@@Unam469 if there are 9 people playing, the most quarters you would need for cashing out is about 20-25.
what kind of poker chips are those?
These are Paulson THC molds - you can learn all about them in my "Poker Chip Video #4" on this channel.
I take it you’re a Star Wars fan.
for your .50-1 breakdown 13:12 , thats for how many ppl ?
All of these starting stacks are for 10 people max. You notice there is a little bit of variation I recommend an extra rack of fives if you think you’ve got some gamblers on hand, I would also recommend that extra rack if you had a full 10 players.
Thanks bud appreciate it👍🏼
So how do you make money hosting the games? Or you dont?
Don’t make any money, I have no desire to charge my friends. The only money I make us sometimes I win playing, but of course there is a variance so some nights I am down. My approach has always been that poker in my home is for fun and enjoyment, finishing ahead is part of that enjoyment of course, but it is not the point of playing in my house.