A Game of Cards with Friends
PuntersLounge had a get together this past weekend, with a day at the races (York) and an evening of poker. Was really looking forward to it until Thursday afternoon (just as we were about to leave), when something occurred to me. PL legend and forum head had let me know that I was organising the poker tournament!!!
Okay. No problem. I've played live maybe a handful of times, but always with dealers provided, but I've played many many MTT's so a 3 table 30 seater tourney should be a doddle, until you realise that you have to be on top of everything, including string bets, mis-deals, blind structure, pay out, how to deal a flop properly, multiple side pots, chip distribution and management, organising who is placed where at the start and then being aware of the people going out in order to keep the tables balanced. Oh, and play well enough to survive myself.
When you consider the 'whole' it is understandably daunting, but my approach was to take each task as it came. For example I was still deciding on my blind structure whilst playing the tournament.
It was played in the right spirit, whilst at the same time maintaining the competitive element of any PL poker tourney. All in all it was the most enjoyable tourney I've ever played in, purely because of the people who made the effort to turn up and play.
Thank you all!
The top 5 were;
1st - Aliando (£100)* 1st/2nd prize split
2nd - Morlspin (£100)
3rd - Ronay (£50)
4th - Gripper (£30)
5th - Me (£20)
The tournament, however was just the start of things, with us playing sit n goes through the night, right up to when the resteraunt opened for breakfast.
Read about the whole weekend (including a Slovakian turning up thinking he had a job in the U.K.) here
Okay. No problem. I've played live maybe a handful of times, but always with dealers provided, but I've played many many MTT's so a 3 table 30 seater tourney should be a doddle, until you realise that you have to be on top of everything, including string bets, mis-deals, blind structure, pay out, how to deal a flop properly, multiple side pots, chip distribution and management, organising who is placed where at the start and then being aware of the people going out in order to keep the tables balanced. Oh, and play well enough to survive myself.
When you consider the 'whole' it is understandably daunting, but my approach was to take each task as it came. For example I was still deciding on my blind structure whilst playing the tournament.
It was played in the right spirit, whilst at the same time maintaining the competitive element of any PL poker tourney. All in all it was the most enjoyable tourney I've ever played in, purely because of the people who made the effort to turn up and play.
Thank you all!
The top 5 were;
1st - Aliando (£100)* 1st/2nd prize split
2nd - Morlspin (£100)
3rd - Ronay (£50)
4th - Gripper (£30)
5th - Me (£20)
The tournament, however was just the start of things, with us playing sit n goes through the night, right up to when the resteraunt opened for breakfast.
Read about the whole weekend (including a Slovakian turning up thinking he had a job in the U.K.) here
posted by Mr V. at 8:51 am
5 Comments:
I think the fact that everyone seemed to enjoy it says a lot for the organisation behind it. Having said that, it helps that a good number knew how a tournament should work and could help those around their table experiencing it for the first time.
Imagine a room full of first time players and the sweats would be on !
Avon and I are certainly looking forward to the next one.
Do a google search for 'runadrum' (although I'm not sure why anyone would) and result number 7 is this blog !
(but it doesn't find my blog !!)
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Oh yes Runadrum, I agree everyone was superb, but I had never even hosted a home game before, and so was trying to illustrate the number of tasks I was undertaking for the first time.
As regards Google, you were first when I googled you.
so I am - my mistake was restricting the search to UK only !
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