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Main => Templates, Layouts and Sounds => Topic started by: UPT on January 16, 2008, 10:10:33 PM
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This is a 4-5 hour H.O.R.S.E. game with 5000 in startings chips and around 24 people.
Posted from a request by tandemrx
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Thanks UPT,
Is your ante and "ante" or a "bring-in"? (I assume ante).
How do you do with those short rounds? Get enough play for each game?
Do you have dedicated dealers?
Dare I ask for you layout too so I can see how you handle displaying the different games (blinds vs. limits etc)? You could not supply images or other identifiers if you want it to be more anonymous, I am mostly interested in how you handle display for a HORSE game.
This is just about exactly what I was looking for in terms of duration of play (I could go another hour, so I might just lengthen those 12 minute and 10 minute rounds out a bit.
Problem is that my dedicated dealers are reasonably fast, but not casino fast quite yet, and play tends to be a bit slow, so I am afraid the short rounds might be tough (I could see where we might lose a couple minutes in a 10 minute round to the previous game finishing the last hand).
If anyone knows I would be interested in how many hands are usually played per hour at a casino for stud games and hold'em games. Just out of curiousity
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The Ante is always the ante... the small blind and big blind serve as the bring in and completion for the stud games and Limit 1 & 2 for the small and big bets.
I display the Round, Game, Ante, Blinds & Stakes in a column in the center. I don't label anything except the Ante on the screen... folks know what is what.
If this was a cash game all the levels would be of equal length... but I have found that as the players dwindle in a free-roll the shorter rounds work ok. Everyone around these parts prefers a leisurely start, so I like the compromise.