You have very likely been to some home poker tournaments or poker nights at people’s houses that were run well and were a lot of fun to go to. On the flip side, you’ve likely been to home poker tourneys that were so poorly organized that it detracted from your enjoyment of playing poker.
What separates the good home poker games from the bad ones ? Just some planning ahead. If you put some work in ahead of time to decide on the best tournament structure, how you will distribute chips out to people, how you will seat everybody, and the other important details then your home poker night will be a success.
This page is the central page for Poker Hosting on EasyPokerChips.com. In the links below you’ll find tips on how you should structure your poker tournament, how you should seat players, what night you should host, how you should distribute your poker chips, as well as many others.
Hosting Basics
- How To Host A Poker Tournament – A walk-through page of what you need to know in order to host a successful poker tournament
- Poker Tournament Checklist – A checklist of things to do in the days, hours, and minutes leading up to your poker tournament
Tournament Structure
- Best Tournament Structures – A comparison of different poker tournament structures including heads up, freeze out, rebuy, shootout etc.
- Best Buy In Amounts – How much should the buy in be ?
- Sample Tournament Structures - Example structures including the blind levels and times
- Poker Payout Structures – Examples of how to structure the pay outs of any prizes at the poker tournament
Poker Players
- Finding Poker Players - Where to find players for your poker game
- Picking A Night For Poker – What day to schedule your poker tournament to get players
- Too Many Poker Players – What to do if you have too many players for your house
- Seating Poker Players – How to fairly seat people at the beginning of your poker night
- Moving Poker Players – How to rearrange the seating at your poker tournament
Tournament Tips
- How to Liven Up Your Poker Game – What to do if the game is getting boring
- What Color Poker Chips to Get – Get the right Poker chips to make the betting easy
- How Many Poker Chips to Get – How many poker chips you should get for your tournament
- How to Deal A Poker Tournament – Advice on how to deal your poker tournament (hint, don’t rotate the deal if some of the players can’t shuffle and deal well)
- 7 Poker Dealing Tips – Tips to effectively deal your poker tournament
- Hosting a cash game – Tips on how to host a poker cash game
- Free Poker Blind Timers – Run the levels of your poker tournament effectively with these blind timers
Poker Problems
- Missing Money – What to do if money is missing
- Exposing A Card on The Flop or Turn – How to handle an exposed card when dealing
- Dealing Before The Action is Completed – What to do if the dealer deals too soon
- Folding and Absent Player – What to do if someone is away from the table
- Exposing A Player’s Hand – What to do if a players hand is exposed
- Mucking a Winning Hand – What to do if a winning poker hand is mucked
- Angle Shooting at a Home Game – If another player is playing unethically
- Chopping Blinds – When it is ok to chop blinds at a home poker game
- The Cards Speak – Know the rules on one player to a hand