Home game night kit

Plan the night before anyone sits down: chip values and how many of each to hand out, a blinds schedule that fits your time, and the payouts. When the game ends, take the players straight to settle-up.

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Disclaimer

Home game night kit (a planner). It suggests chip values, blinds and payouts from the numbers you type. Your group decides the rules, and the kit doesn't move money or keep a record. For adults 21+; check the rules on home games where you live. Nothing you enter leaves your device.

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How it works

Chip values. For a 10,000 stack the values are 25, 100, 500, 1,000 and 5,000, and they scale with your stack. Most of each stack sits in the middle colors, with enough small chips to post the early blinds. If your set runs short of a color, we say which one.

Blinds. The big blind starts near 1% of a stack and climbs so that, by the last level, it's around one fifteenth of all the chips in play, which is when most games finish. We add a 10-minute break every four levels.

Payouts. The prize pool is every buy-in added up, with nothing taken out. We pay 1 place for up to 4 players, 2 for 5 to 7, 3 for 8 to 10 and more as the field grows. Any rounding goes to first place.

Settling up. The button opens our settle-up calculator with each name and buy-in filled in, using the part of the link after the #, which your browser doesn't send to us. Add rebuys and what each player ended with there.