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Home Game Heroes: Five Ingredients for Organizing and Hosting a Poker Game

You like casino poker. And you enjoy playing online. But you’ve decided that you’d like to try your hand at organizing a game at your home. It’s more convenient, you won’t have to pay a rake, and you hope you’ll be having a good time playing with people you know — instead of with strangers.

Here’s a list of five ingredients for organizing a successful home game:

1. Players

You can’t have a poker game without poker players. With few exceptions, however, you often don’t start with enough to guarantee a game. So how do you go about building a base of players?