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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.
Tournament Structure To access this content, you must purchase Poker Coaching Premium Membership. To access this content, you must purchase Poker Coaching Premium Membership. The blind structure calculator lets you create the perfect blind structure for your tournament in just a few clicks Concentrate on your cards Stop running back and forth to the computer, connect as many devices as you want to the tournament and manage everything from the poker table. Get rid of your spreadsheets. When setting the blind structure for your tournament keep in mind that you're playing at home, not in a high stakes casino. Blinds of more than a 2x jump can be a little too big for a home poker game.
In a poker tournament, blinds go up gradually. This is to ensure that the tournament finishes on a timely manner. (the higher the blinds get the more players tend to get eliminated). Blinds usually go up after predetermined periods of time. (for example every 15 or 20 minutes). Two main factors determine blind structure of the game.
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.
How to set up PokerStars Home Games Online
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.
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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
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!
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A version of this article was first published in January 2016.
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