Guides

How to run a poker night.

What years of hosting home games taught us — collected, whatever tools you use.

  1. How to host a poker night at home Everything to settle before the group arrives — player count, equipment, format, buy-in, house rules and a schedule that holds.
  2. Blind structures for home poker How to set levels, level length and starting stack so the tournament lasts exactly as long as you want — with three ready-made structures.
  3. Poker chips: values and distribution How many chips you need, which denominations work at home, and how to hand out a starting stack nobody has to recount.
  4. Chip chop and ICM — deals when few are left What happens when the last players want to split and stop, why a plain chip chop favours the big stack, and how ICM works it out — with an example you can check yourself.
  5. Points systems and leagues for a poker club How to build a season ranking that rewards the right things, keeps people motivated all season, and ends with a final worth turning up for.