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This is an
application I knocked up to time my home poker game levels, coz I either
kept forgetting to look at my watch or setting the countdown timer on my
mobile phone. It mite be naff, but its virus checked, uses standard
Microsoft components, and its totally free. Its also my tribute to Stephen
Hawking, a man of great intellect and courage who I admire greatly. The file
is approx 11mb in size, so if you want version
1.5.0, then please
click here.
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Release Notes |
| 1.5.0 |
 | The mousepointer is moved by one pixel every 30 seconds when a
game is running, to prevent any screensaver kicking in. |
| New Tip #52 Added |
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How We Run Our Home
Games
We have regular home games at my place, usually every week
if we can lol, and this is how we run 'em. We have found that there are
several things to consider and problems to avoid, listed below:
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Avoid Having too many chips on the table (makes it a PIA to
keep counting when someone moves in). It mite look good on the telly, but in
reality wastes time.
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Avoid Having chips with too many different denominations
(Unnecessary), 3 colours are plenty
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Avoid Having blind levels too long, or keeping blinds too
small. If u run a rebuy (which we do for an hour) then you can have the game
taking forever, and u need to balance a reasonable game, with those that get
KO early having to wait too long for another game.
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We have values printed on our chips. I initially thought it
would prevent people asking me 'how much are these worth', but this isn't
really necessary coz u get used to 'em pretty soon, however if u are playing
with total novices, such as family at Christmas, it mite be worth mounting
one of each on a piece of card with the value written underneath, and
displaying it where all can see.
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Buy the best chipset u can afford. Ours are 11.5g clay
suited. And its worth paying the extra. The cheapo 8g chips for example are
crap, don't feel right, and are harder to do 'chip tricks' with lol. You can
really push the boat out and go for the 15g chips if u can afford 'em,
nice......
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Get some decent cards (plastic preferably), with large index
on. a good pack will last ages, and feel much better to handle.
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Rules
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15 Minute levels, Timed by the poker timer
above.
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1500 starting chips, comprising 8 x Green (25), and 13 x 100
(black)
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Re-buy's for one hour, but u have to be BELOW 1500 chips.
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Re-buy's are given 3 x 500 chips (purple), changed down in
the school.
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No Add-ons (you can end up with too many chips in the
school), but that's up to you !!
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At the 1hr break, we sometimes change the green chips (25's)
into 100's, as u don't need 'em any more.
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Games Usually take 1.5-2hrs.
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If we have 6 players or less we pay top 2, 70%/30%. If We
have any more then its 3 paid, 50%, 30%, 20%.
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