Poker night
The inaugural Strugglers poker night will be taking place in April 2006.
Contents
Who?
- Andy (played once)
- Matt
- Phil (played a bit - but not exactly in the big leagues or anything)
- Simon (also never played before)
When and where?
At Andy/Dana/Phil's place, about 6pm on Saturday 1st April 2006.
Game rules
We'll be playing Fixed Limit Texas hold 'em.
Chips
Andy will be providing the chips and each player will pay £5 for an equal share.
Total chips available:
144 white at 2.5p each = 360p
104 red at 5p each = 520p
56 blue at 10p each = 560p
28 green at 20p each = 560p
Total = 2000p
= £20.00
= 332 chips
We'll each have:
36 white at 2.5p each = 90p
26 red at 5p each = 130p
14 blue at 10p each = 140p
7 green at 20p each = 140p
Total = 500p
= £5.00
= 83 chips
Black chips will be worth 50p but we won't use them to start with, only change them up later in case we start running out of others.
Now turn those denominations into "strugglers currency" just to make it sound slightly less silly, and:
white = $5 red = $10 blue = $20 green = $40 black = $100
Each of us will get (36 * $5) + (26 * $10) + (14 * $20) + (7 * $40) = $1000. All betting in the game will be carried out in "strugglers currency", i.e. the fake dollars:
ante = $5 small blind = $5 big blind = $10 small bet = $10 big bet = $20
Divide the dollar value by 2 if you need to know how much it is in real world pennies!
Betting
There will be an ante before each hand, a small blind equal to the ante, and a large blind equal to twice the small blind.
We'll be doing something like this depending on what chips we have:
Ante is 1 chip, small blind is 1 chip, large blind is 2 chips, small bet 2 chips, big bet 4 chips. Small bets are used for the first two rounds of betting, the big bets used in the last two rounds. Up to three raises are allowed per round, making four bets in total per round.
Real money
Whoever ends up with all the chips at the end takes all the £5s.
More information
Examples
An example of gameplay can be found at http://www.pokerlistings.com/fixed-limit-texas-holdem-set-up-and-play
