Get a chair at the Table! HCW Texas Hold 'em Poker - Ready to do a practice round? Please read! - Page 3

hotcouponmama · 10-05-2007, 01:57:29 PM

Update - there's enough people that have questions about how this is going to work that I think tonight's round - we'll do a demo tonight only - let people ask questions, and then play for real next week. That will give people a chance to see how it works first, and gather some more coupons to play. And if $200 in face value is too hard to come up with - let's drop it back to $100 - just means you might be spent out a little faster if you aren't a good poker player.

Demo tonight will be start somewhere between 6-7PM PAC time.

djm11504 · 10-05-2007, 03:43:03 PM

Is there still room to join in?

orchidofpurple · 10-05-2007, 03:46:46 PM

Ah Bummer I was really looking forward to playing. But since I still havent come up with a full $200 in coupons I guess its a good thing. I did have a question though are IP coupons ok? And is ok to use 2 of the same coupon?

Thanks

hotcouponmama · 10-05-2007, 07:21:03 PM

Ok, sorry I'm late - our waiter tonight at dinner was slow as molasses.

I would say no to IP coupons since some people can't use them. Yes to multiples of coupons is ok.

Getting a deck of cards - brb!

hotcouponmama · 10-05-2007, 07:45:12 PM

OK, here's the demo.

We're going to assume we have 5 ppl at this table.

I've just dealt each player 2 cards and we'll say that I PMed you your cards. You wouldn't let anyone know what those two cards are.

In this scenario, each player got dealt the following:

H=Hearts
D=Diamonds
S=Spades
C=Clubs

Player 1: Ace-H, 5-H
Player 2: 7-S, Jack-D
Player 3: 2-H, 3-H
PLayer 4: King-D, 7-C
Player 5: Queen-C, 7-D

Again, you all wouldn't know each other's hands. At this point, based on your cards, you can choose to bet or fold. Max bet and Max raise is $5.

Let's say everybody opted to play.

Player 1 decides to play the cards, and bets $2 in face value of coupons.
Players 2-4 can either then fold again as a choice, or call or raise the bet. Calling the bet is matching it, raising is matching it and adding to the bet.

Player 2 would post if they want to call or raise.

Player 3 raised the bet $1.

Player four needs to bet $3 if they want to stay in the game, or fold. Player 4 opts to fold based on this hand.

Player 5 calls and bets $3 - the original $2 bet plus matching player 2's raise.

Player 1 has a choice - they can either call, raise, or fold. Everyone gets 1 chance to raise the bet. So feasibily, this could go around 5 times, but really, you need another card. So Player 1 calls the bet. Player 2 is going to call the bet two. Now everyone is in for the same amount.

The pot is now $12.

So, now we deal the next 3 cards. Everyone shares these cards to make the cards better. This is called the flop.

The flop for this hand is:

7-H
8-H
4-C

Now, you'd play for poker hands.

Everyone goes again. Based on what everyone has, everyone is still in the game.

Player 1 starts again. He could check the bet (ie, skips to the next player) or he could place a bet.

He has 4 hearts right now, so he's going to place a $3 bet.

Everybody calls or raises again until everyone who's going to play has placed an equal bet.

Now we deal the Turn card. The turn card for this game is the Jack of Spades.

Player 2 has the best hand right now - with 2 pairs.

Player 1 says - $1 bet
Player 2 - Raise $5 (the max)
Player 3 folds
Player 5 - calls (putting in $6)

Player 1 has to either call, fold or raise. And so it goes until everyone is either in, or out. In means, all bets in have to be matched.

Last card - The river card.

Last card dealt is King of Hearts.

Player 1 now has a flush
Player 2 has 2 pairs
Player 5 has 1 pair

The bets go around again.

Player 1 bets $2
Player 2 raised the $5
PLayer 5 has to put in $7 or fold. Player 5 folds.

Player 1 has to either then match the $5 or fold or raise. He raises $5. Player 2 has to put in $5 or fold - can't raise cause they already had the chance to raise once.

PLayer 2 puts in the $5, and then compare hands.

Player 1 with the flush is the winner.

Now, based on what coupons were played, set aside what you used because you've now committed them to that round's winner. That round's winner needs to keep inventory because they can now use those coupons in future rounds. We'll help keep track as we go.

At the end of the game, all players will end up sending their coupons played to the big winner of the night, so in essence, since there were 5 players in this round, 4 ppl are going to be sending out an envie the next day.

Ok, now that said, do we have some people who want to test this through tonight? Practice run here. Three people minimum to do the practice round - maximum of 8.

Please post if you want to do a practice run tonight!