Recently, for my home game I decided to run a series of poker games. The Penguin Poker League, if you will.
This wasn’t necessarily an easy task. First I had to decide on a point system. I wanted to make it fair for people who didn’t necessarily play every week, but at the […]

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I know Halloween has seriously passed and we’re already at Thanksgiving (this month has just flown by). But, I wanted to tell you about my home game a little bit over Halloween weekend.
No one there (except for myself) takes very poker seriously. We like to have fun, drink, rip on each other and […]

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One of my friends and a regular at my home game recently was in an accident that left him with a compound fractured clavicle and an injured lung. He’s a bartender in the French Quarter, so obviously he doesn’t have insurance (I could rant here about the lack socialized medicine here, but this is […]

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Recently, I was invited over to a friend’s house for what he described to me gleefully as “whacky poker.” Basically it went something like this, it’s a cash game where the dealer would get to choose the game and was encouraged to come up with the craziest rules they could think of (as long […]

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Here’s what happened to me tonight at my regular home game, so I ask you, what would you do?
Here’s the scenario. You’re in a home game with 7 total players… down to the final three. You’re sitting on the chip lead by about 500 and you’ve pretty much been playing tight solid poker […]

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I’ve had a home poker game for awhile now. We have a pretty simple structure. It’s $20/buy-in. No rebuys. $1000 in chips. Blinds go up every 20 minutes. Winner take all tournament format. Everyone can drink as much as they want.
Recently, Mark Holmes (writer for […]

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There I am, playing in our $20 buy-in biweekly tournament. We’re down to four players and I’m short stacked. The chip leader is sitting on my left and the player on my right is close behind him. The blinds have gotten big enough to hurt and the chip leader has bet 300 […]

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