I've been tasked with hosting a poker game for our annual holiday party for everyone at my office. No one has a poker account so everyone will create one on stars. New accounts start with 35K chips. What are your thoughts on the best way to do this? I'd like the game to last 60-90 minutes.
Basically, my options are:
1. Tournament: only con here is that once someone is out they kind of have to sit around and wait. I guess this is fine.
-Smallest tourney on stars home game is 20K chips so that's what I'd have to make it. Meaning I can't do a rebuy because everyone will only have 35K chips. -What kind of tournament structure would you recommend for a 60-90 minute game with 13 people? Turbo I guess? Any other structures I should consider? What about starting stack sizes?
2. Play money cash game.
The con here is that not everyone can play together since max table size is 9 people. Same is true for tourney but at least at some point everyone remaining will sit on one table.
In both cases, the prizes will be given out by firm to the winner (in cash whoever has most/2nd most chips or 1st/2nd place in tourney).
Any insight would be appreciated on cash vs tourney and on tourney structure.
Run a tournament for $20K chips and then once 5 people are out, start a cash game with the other 15K at play. Whoever has the most chips on the cash table when the tournament ends gets 2nd or third place consolation prize.
Run a tournament for $20K chips and then once 5 people are out, start a cash game with the other 15K at play. Whoever has the most chips on the cash table when the tournament ends gets 2nd or third place consolation prize.
Good idea!
Going to do this.
I made the tourney a hyper turbo (think people who don't really play will get tired 45 mins in so might as well turn it into a donkfest) with a starting chip count of 5K chips. Does that sound like it would be an hour game with 13 people?
