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I will host a Jazzfanz only poker game either late April or early May.

The buy-in will be affordable.

I will provide food. I will provide beer to those who imbibe.

My poker room is undergoing renovations.

Here is a sample, this will be the felt (or something like it, this is a mock-up) on one of my tables...
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Game will be held, if at all possible, during a Jazz playoff game.

Extra chips will be awarded for coming to the game wearing Jazz related attire (tattoos count @fishonjazz )

I'm busting out the chocolate fountain for this thing! Fresh strawberries, hot flowing chocolate... if you are a Jazz fan you are going to want to be there!
 
Oh, and while my chips are not Jazz related and I know like 0.0001% of the population gives a **** about high-end poker chips, I'm about two week away from getting a nice set of these guys...

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Bulletproof said:
This is the pre-renovation pic of my poker room

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Looks pretty posh to me, considering yogurt prices and all....

my first wife grew up in a private casino, and I learned poker from her.... a little.... and I just had to realize she could read my face if she hadn't marked the cards..... lol.

years later, when I finally watched John Wayne's "Hell Town" movie, I could empathize with the rube.

Hope you have some fun.
 
Do you play usually with real money i.e every player gives a la 10 USD and then you divide all the chips and the last survivor collects the pot? When i played that way with friends about ten years ago, then it took about 2-3 hours to finish one game. All-in was not allowed i.e the bets started 10/20, then 20/40 etc. Our starting money per player was about 2 USD :-) so the winner received about 10-14 USD.
What i discovered - when we played without money at all, then it was not fun or tense at all; even the tiny amount of money made the process much more interesting. I.e it was very interesting to observe who is bluffing, who plays only when it is 101% chance to win the round etc.
 
I will be a relative local by then! I am in.

Full disclaimer, I haven't played poker basically ever.
 
I'll obviously be there. But i don't know if I'll play poker as I'd like to focus on the Jazz game.
 
lauriandres said:
Do you play usually with real money i.e every player gives a la 10 USD and then you divide all the chips and the last survivor collects the pot? When i played that way with friends about ten years ago, then it took about 2-3 hours to finish one game. All-in was not allowed i.e the bets started 10/20, then 20/40 etc. Our starting money per player was about 2 USD :) so the winner received about 10-14 USD.
What i discovered - when we played without money at all, then it was not fun or tense at all; even the tiny amount of money made the process much more interesting. I.e it was very interesting to observe who is bluffing, who plays only when it is 101% chance to win the round etc.
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I run what is a pretty standard No Limit Texas Hold'em tournament. There is a real money buy-in and each player gets a set amount of chips to start. The blinds start low and gradually increase, putting greater pressure on players to make a move or get eliminated. With a single table I pay top three, usually 50%/30%/20% of the money collected from buy-ins. With two tables I will pay top 4 or 5. I like for the last person to win money to at least double the buy-in or very close to that.

I completely agree that having a little money on the line is what makes poker poker. Without it it basically becomes "let's flip our cards over and see who wins."
 
Siro said:
I'll obviously be there. But i don't know if I'll play poker as I'd like to focus on the Jazz game.
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I completely sympathise. We'll have to see the schedule, I can really only host Saturday or Sunday unless I take time off, then I could do a Friday evening. If we start a few hours before the game we could record the game and start watching a little behind and FFW through commercials until we catch up. We did that for the first game James came to and it worked pretty well. We'll have to see. I mean Jazz have to make the playoffs first.
 
Bulletproof said:
I completely agree that having a little money on the line is what makes poker poker. Without it it basically becomes "let's flip our cards over and see who wins."
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I've heard people make similar arguments about bridge, runny, chess, etc. It depends on your level of competitiveness, I think. I play as fiercely for matchsticks as for money.
 
One Brow said:
I've heard people make similar arguments about bridge, runny, chess, etc. It depends on your level of competitiveness, I think. I play as fiercely for matchsticks as for money.
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Poker is a game designed specifically to be played for money. There is strategy to those other games that is seperate from betting money. Poker tournaments are a little different, in that you have "no cash value" chips standing in as the scorekeeper in place of real money. But I assure you, poker plays very differently, tournament or traditional cash game, depending on money being involved and the amount of money involved.

I've played poker at stakes that didn't matter to the people involved and it basically removes folding as a viable option in anyone's strategy. They basically open up their range of hands 3-4x what it would be if they were playing for an amount of money that meant something to them.
 
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