How To Set Up A Poker Tournament

1. This is a standard blind structure for a tournament consisting of 5-50 players. Each player should begin with $1000 in tournament chips (ex. $50 buy-in equals $1000 in tournament chips). If you would like the tournament to last longer, the starting number of chips can be increased to $1500.
2. Create your poker tournament blind structure and launch your tournament in under 2 minutes with Blind Valet.
3. I use the Poker Tournament Manager Deluxe chip calculator to determine how many chips of each color I need based on the number of players and the buyin chip value. One thing to consider is that you don't want the players to have to few chips because people will tend to go 'all-in' faster.so it is better to setup your chip distribution so that.
4. Setting up a club - Under the Club Games tab, click on ‘Create Club’ - Choose a name, password, and a description which will be displayed in the club’s lobby - You've successfully created a club.

So we've set you up with all the tools you need to get a successful home poker tournament off the ground. Now, it's over to you. Get the kit, find the players, and set the date already.

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There's never been a better time to find out how to set up a PokerStars Home Games than right now.

PokerStars Home Games allow you to set up a private members club where you can play cash games and tournaments. All games can be for play money and real money, so you don't need to spend anything if you don't want to.

You can invite whoever you want and even keep track of tournament leader board standings.

PokerStars Home Games allow you to take the banter of your local home game onto the online felt, even allowing you to play with poker friends from all over the world.

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Here is our quick and easy five-step guide to setting up a PokerStars Home Game of your own.

Step 1 - Download PokerStars

If you haven’t got a PokerStars account already you need one, so download the software now and set up a new account.

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Step 2 - Create Your PokerStars Home Games

Click on the Home Games tab in the lobby and click 'Create a Poker Club'

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Step 3 - Name Your Club

Pick a funny name of course, and also pick a unique password in the invitation code field.

Step 4 - Manage Your Club

Here you can suspend, reinstate, and grant admin positions to players as well as select images and colour themes for the club tab.

This is also where you can invite new members. To do so, select the invite option and cut / and paste the instructions in an email to your buddies.

Step 5 - Choose Your Games

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You can set up specific scheduled tournaments in the manage games tab. There is a real depth of choice here, you can tailor:

• the game types
• the starting stacks
• the format
• the number of players
• the payout structure
• and more.

You can also set up cash game tables which run 24/7 for both real money and play money!

If you don’t have a PokerStars account, get one now and make the most of our exclusive promotions too, when you join PokerStars via PokerNews.

_{A version of this article was first published in January 2016.
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The first thing you need to do is make sure that you have enough players to hold a poker tournament. You also must decide how big the event will be.

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Any group of buddies can hold a small sit and go with 4-5 players. But you’ll want more participants if you’re envisioning a grand event.

You should also consider other factors when deciding how many players to invite, including the buy-in size and what type of people will be playing.

These factors go together because you don’t want to hold a $500 buy-in home tournament and invite players who’ll be telling everybody they know. This creates security issues and can lead to thegame being robbed.

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This sounds extreme, but home poker robberies do happen when the wrong people catch wind that there’s a large prize pool involved.

Most home poker tournaments don’t have buy-ins worth more than $50 to $100. But if you’re hosting a high-stakes event, you should consider hiring security.

This also seems extreme, but it’s a good precaution when you’re holding a larger tournament with big buy-ins involved.

I recommended inviting as many high-character individuals as you can. Some players tend to get out of hand and cause controversy during a poker tourney.

You’ve likely seen World Series of Poker clips where a player is acting unreasonably.The good news for WSOP officials is that they have plenty of security in case anything goes too far.

This is enough deterrent to keep WSOP players in line. But the same instances can lead to fights in a home game where there’s no security personnel to back up the tournament director.

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This is another area where hiring one or two security guards can help. Security ensures that you don’t have to deal with unreasonable, drunken players yourself.