Question about online home game tourney

Hey,
Question for all. I just moved accross country and our home game of three years has dissolved. We were all in the Army and miss our home game of 8 players (4 couples).
Have any of you used a site to schedule a home game tourney? I want to play about 6 weeks of one a week and keep score and then award the top three a prize at the end of the 6 weeks. The site can pay the weekly money to who ever wins, but I will award a prize/prizes to my friends out of my pocket. I just miss the comraderie
You get my drift. Any suggestions?

I am pretty sure you can set up through stars, full tilt and carbon. Someone else can probably answer better but as far as i know it must be at least 5.50 buy in and you set a password. Good luck

Easy to set up private games, the requirement at pokerstars is 2k fpp. The harder part might be getting four couples into one game. Are all of them allowed to play at the same table together?

Yup, private games can be set up at Pokerstars once you have 2k FPP (and apply for the option). Couples in this kind of game is unlikely to cause any problems.

If you decide to go ahead on Stars I'd be happy to set the games up for you (a matter of seconds to do, so no problem).

you might have to inquire about the same IP things though since it's going to be couples playing (probably) in the same house. i know freakakanus and ladyt cannot play at the same time because of having the same IP. they also had to talk to pokerstars and let them know the situation with having 2 accounts registered in the same household.

My brother, AmadorEd and I, have no problems playing in the same MTT/SNG. Cash games are another matter, we cannot sit at the same table for a cash game. He has broadband upstairs, and I work of a wireless network from that on my computer downstairs.

Oh yeah, and I'm talking about at Poker Stars. ^^

It's easy to set up ring games on Carbon, but I don't think you can set up tourneys.

As for keeping your league stats, may I suggest homepokertour.com

I use it for our annual series. I log in finish / cash in / cash out/ points. It's easy to update and administer and it's free.

I'm not affiliated with it or anything - just find it to be a useful tool. I looked at several others and thought this one was the easiest to use.

We run our series over the whole year, making up about 40 games. We collect an extra $2 each night. One dollar goes into the championship pot, the other in to the badbeat jackpot. We struggled to find trigger that grows but is not impossible to trigger. Our rule is at least one hole card and the losing hand gets the whole jackpot - usually over $100 by the time it's tripped. Qualifying losing hand is aces high FullHouse the first month, then every month it goes down a notch (KKKxx, QQQxx, etc) until it stabilizes at 222xx if it gets that far. It probably won't.

As for the championship pot, our annual champion get's a $330 direct buy-in to a WSOP satellite at the local casino. Any extra and we use it for new cards and things like that.

Anything our champ wins locally is his. Anything he wins at the WSOP is split: he gets 50% and the top 10 points finishers split the other 50%. We award points for finish, money finish and bounty (knocking off previous winner = 2 points).

This was more than you asked for. I find the online data entry easier than updating it in a notebook.

Gary

interesting...i know my friends (who are twins) that play poker weren't able to play together from the same internet (at least in sngs,yeah, they tried to collude, lol) but im not sure if they tried cash games or MTTs. this also wasnt on stars, though im not sure if that really matters

Yeah it's pretty easy to do. Have fun with your home games online--I may have to do this soon because my home game of 6-10 people recently dissolved do to almost the same situation.

Thanks folks,
Stars looks like our best bet, but I need about 1200 more FPP to hit the 2K requirement. Carbon can't do it for me. UB and Bodog have yet to respond.
UB lets us play from the same IP address in a one tbl SnG, FT does not and I think PS lets us as well.
Another challenge is the time zones. SOme of my friends are west coast, so I was planning to have a noon start time on the East Coast (9am PST)
Although my plan to have a online shot (each pour a shot at the same time) wouldn't go over that well at 9am. LOL
We could be chatting the entire time and hanging out. Sounds fun
Also always wanted to host a tourney with proceeds going to the Wounded Warrior Program or Susan G. Komen fund.
Later...

Just keep in mind that you don't need to have 2000 pts at the time you ask, you simply need to have earned 2000 pts over the life of your account. So if you hav 800 now and have possibly already spent 1200 or more, then you're qualified and just need to send e-mail to their support.

Edit: Moved to Poker General; SQ&A forum is for forum related stuff not poker.

I'm glad someone posted this...I've always wondered how you would do that with the same IPs. Best of luck to you setting up your game!

Best of luck to you to your game. I find it much easier to set up tourneys on Full Tilt Poker. Although I believe 5.50 would be the minimum buy in for this type of thing. Good luck though...

If you could get this to work it would be great. Hope you can get all the couples to play. Sounds like fun.