How many of you hold poker games at your house amongst friends. What's the most you've won and lost?

Heck ya.

We have a Hold-em tourney ever once inna while.  Last one was $50 buy in and had about 45 people...  Top prize was $1000, second $400...etc.   The leftover cash was beer and brots.  They usually go 12 hours or so!

Most I've ever won was $300 or so in a night.

Liquor in front, poker in the rear

On the topic, I used to play once a week with a group of friends last summer.  $20 bucks to get in, but I don't remember ever putting more in that that.  The most I've won in one hand was $50 something dollars, most I lost in one hand would be around $7 bucks or so.  I can't remember exact numbers.

one time i was playing with a couple of friends and a couple of dudes i'd never met before. we were playing pretty friendly, medium stakes when things started to get a little out of hand. the ante and pots kept getting bigger. i lasted until the end and had this guy against the ropes. at this point we were at no limit. i went big on this guy, probably around 600 dollars. my heart was pumping like a motherfucker and i was looking at a full house. he saw my bet and wanted to raise but he had no more money. i jokingly asked him if twenty minutes with his super-hot date would be worth $100 to him, his dumbass agreed. she looked at me and smiled, thought it was pretty funny and seemed interested. hell, i thought she was gonna slap me or something. wham, i won the hand, took my cash and the hottie and bounced. ended up "dating" for a month or two. guy i beat thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen, i was expecting him to try and start something.

Don't have them at my house very often, but I do go to games that my friends run.

the most I've ever won in a night is about $250, but usually I just win pizza and beer.  


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I  hold a game once a month at my apartment.   I play with a few faculty from a local university.  A few psychology, biology, english, and economics professors.  Those economists are a tight with their money.   But mostly people bring 20 bucks worthof quarters. Sometimes people need to dig into the cabbage, but its just a friendly game.  With only 20 bucks each, the pot never gets bigger than 50 bucks.

My card game is Bridge, but i have been known to play a hand or two of poker with friends occasionaly.

I am not very good, and would love to learn the finer points from you guys if given the oppurtunity.

We usually play Texas hold'em but for no more than $10.00 a hand (). Our games can go for up to 18 hours. Usually the big winner will walk out with 500.00-600.00 dollars.

Most of my friends wont play poker with me . We used to have a nice game with a $20 buy in and you can keep puting in cash if you go broke before the time limit .

When i was younger , I was a big time gambler. My biggest hand in was about $8k . My biggest drop was $11K a few nights later . I stoped playing for a long time after that .