The first thing you need to do is make sure that you have enough players to hold a poker tournament. You also must decide how big the event will be.
Any group of buddies can hold a small sit and go with 4-5 players. But you’ll want more participants if you’re envisioning a grand event.
Once the download has completed, run the PT-Install.exe file that was saved to your computer. If you are upgrading from a previous version of PokerTracker 4 then PokerTracker and all of your poker sites must be closed prior to running the installer. Read the license agreement. If you agree, click the I Agree button to continue.
You should also consider other factors when deciding how many players to invite, including the buy-in size and what type of people will be playing.
These factors go together because you don’t want to hold a $500 buy-in home tournament and invite players who’ll be telling everybody they know. This creates security issues and can lead to thegame being robbed.
This sounds extreme, but home poker robberies do happen when the wrong people catch wind that there’s a large prize pool involved.
Most home poker tournaments don’t have buy-ins worth more than $50 to $100. But if you’re hosting a high-stakes event, you should consider hiring security.
This also seems extreme, but it’s a good precaution when you’re holding a larger tournament with big buy-ins involved.
I recommended inviting as many high-character individuals as you can. Some players tend to get out of hand and cause controversy during a poker tourney.
You’ve likely seen World Series of Poker clips where a player is acting unreasonably.The good news for WSOP officials is that they have plenty of security in case anything goes too far.
This is enough deterrent to keep WSOP players in line. But the same instances can lead to fights in a home game where there’s no security personnel to back up the tournament director.
This is another area where hiring one or two security guards can help. Security ensures that you don’t have to deal with unreasonable, drunken players yourself.
For once, this is a blog series that it’s ok if you missed the first part. In the first segment, I covered running your own home game poker tournament and how to do it successfully. Honestly,there is probably a lot of crossover between running a tournament and a cash game, so maybe I’ll retract my first statement and recommend you read Part One first. I promise you it’s a good read🙂
What I’d like to cover today is running your own home poker game, specifically a cash game. Just to make sure that we are all on the same page, a cash game is a poker game where people buy-in fora certain amount of money and are able to cash out and leave at any point in time. The opposite of this would be a tournament where there is an entry fee, and players play until someone has allof the chips. I know you probably already knew this, but you can never be too careful on the internet these days. I have had several people think that a cash game referred to any poker thatinvolves real money regardless of structure.
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Now that we’re all on the same page, I do want to drop the same disclaimer that I dropped in the first article. Running your own home poker game may or may not be legal depending on where youlive. I highly recommend doing some research and making sure that what you’re doing isn’t going to end with you in handcuffs. This is ESPECIALLY true if you are going to be running a game forprofit which I will get into in a minute.