I have been playing a weekly to semi-weekly game of Texas Hold'em with a rotating group of friends now for about five years. I believe we started on New Year's Day 2004 with just five of us in someone's living room. Only one of us (not me) had really had much experience playing hold'em at a casino while the rest of us just watched on on TV and occasionally called it out in the semi-weekly dealer's choice game we had been playing for years before that.
So one day we decided to just play tournaments. We each put $10 (or sometimes $20) in and played for a first or second place prize. We did this for a few years and it was a blast. We all started to learn each other's tendencies. We would make casino trips together and sit at the same table so two, three, four of us would have fun playing with the strangers who would sit down. We would never cheat but we knew each other so well that we could anticipate each other better and it would make for a more fun game. Throughout that time, we would have people who would only show up every now and then and give us games of 10-20 people but was the same five or six of us would always show up. We never really did it to try to win lots of money. We just liked getting together every week on a Friday night and having some fun.
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