Thinking of setting up your very own private home game online?
Find out how you can do that on 888poker and invite your friends to play!
How to Set Up your Own Poker Home Game
Creating your private cash game or tournament at 888poker is very simple and easy:
Login to the lobby & click on the 'Play with friends' tab (if you don't see the tab please click on "extra games" loc[...] Read more » Set Up Your Own Private Home Game on 888poker!
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so 888poker didnt had something like this till now?they didnt offer home games for their poker players?poker stars have this kind of games for so long time,cant even remember for long,maybe almost 10 years!if this is new at 888,then they are so slow in new things in poker and isnt strange how they have such a bad software!
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What good news! 888poker ever be the best room!!! Now we can make some games to probe our skills finally! No more chat about our biggest winnings, that´s the time to probe what are you: fish or man. I like to see some of us in a table, oh what a pleasure! I want to make some tournament and I might put here the link to see in the table, or might make a list to ask for the mails directions, what you say?
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I like home games very much , you can play private tournaments or cash games with few people you choose (or have chosen you) , nice alternative way of gaming in contrast to the usual games with unknown large numerously players' pools . . Very nice by 888poker to have this feature in their poker platform . Players can have the games they desire and like with their close friends , or their followers in youtube , twitch , twitter , facebook , or any other platform , especially if they are streamers they will find this option very usefull . Many people who are isolated , these corona virus days , have the option with these home games to play their favorite poker games only with the people they desire , to have some fun and entertainment with them .
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Location: Romania
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I didn't organize that in any poker room where i played but i participated twice in 888 and pokerstars to that. I didn't play much because i don't like to win and steal the money from friends. A community with people you don't know can also be built there. It will be better.
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Posted by dule-vu: so 888poker didnt had something like this till now?they didnt offer home games for their poker players?poker stars have this kind of games for so long time,cant even remember for long,maybe almost 10 years!if this is new at 888,then they are so slow in new things in poker and isnt strange how they have such a bad software!
I don't know if this is a new feature or has been there all along.
Agree that their software is not the best though and that I would play home games elsewhere.
Also I don't really think they should be promoting this when traffic at their site is so high and they are unable to keep their platform up and running smoothly.
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Hahaha CALICUL, you stole or you was stoled? What a good friend are you man! You are one of the mobster that I would like to share a game. I think that it might be funny, I don´t know why. I don´t have doubts about your skills, only I think that if we had fun in this forum, is possible that we can have fun playing in a poker´s table. What do you think?
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I can't play to stealing friends' money. I played once and took 2nd place after a series of 7-8 tournaments on different days during a month. On the other side was just heads-up and ''I left the building''. I want to make money with all foreign players, my friend.
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Posted by crankmuppet:
Posted by dule-vu: so 888poker didnt had something like this till now?they didnt offer home games for their poker players?poker stars have this kind of games for so long time,cant even remember for long,maybe almost 10 years!if this is new at 888,then they are so slow in new things in poker and isnt strange how they have such a bad software!
I don't know if this is a new feature or has been there all along.
Agree that their software is not the best though and that I would play home games elsewhere.
Also I don't really think they should be promoting this when traffic at their site is so high and they are unable to keep their platform up and running smoothly.
today I got mail from them about this new thing and their site and they describe everything about it!they say also how they made video with chris moorman where they explain step by step how can you start your own game!so for me this is big suprise that they didnt had it before and how much they are behind other poker sites!
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Well CALICUL, ever you can find the way to have fun without the bad feelings. For example, when I played with friends, we were putting a ceiling of loss in the whole night, which was reaching it was not always playing more Also you can always return the money gained your friends (if it is great) after the night ends. The important thing is amusing itself!
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I could play private home games in 888poker but if there is no such commission. There you have the opportunity to talk to the players and learn many useful things. There is nothing wrong with this but otherwise i do not want to. Others played and then cheated at sng games... Is not good.
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I don't know if 888poker had this feature in the past or if it's a new add-on in the lobby . I haven't played home games nowhere else except for Pokerstars . I want to try on Partypoker , some homegames I think at least 2 of their twitch streamers schedule , i think Jeff gross is one of them ??
If 888poker has some homegames with value by streamers or sb else , I will also play there . But I have never had my own poker club or games scheduled in a homegames on PokerStars . . Either it's new or not , homegames are essential , especially these days . Partypoker , Pokerstars had these homegames and many use them , such as individual players , forums , etc . On Pokerstars US players can also play, not real money , but play money games .
So 888poker , one of the 3 top pokerrooms in the world , could not be left out of this
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No antonis321, as far as I remember this is the first time that 888poker make this feature. I saw it in PokerStars few years ago, but I was leaving of playing there, so I never make a game for friends or play in one of it. But the best way of play in this option maybe the tourney or sit&go. As I readed there, it is difficult to make. The system is more adjusting to the cash games.
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I dont think that will have much success at their site and that players wouldnt play as much as they think that will!especially younger players,they more like other ways of poker and faster games,not to find 10 firends who will play it!they dont have so many players who will play it online poker!so this will be small thing for 888poker!
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At Home Games you can play official money games and virtual chips. It may also be free where you receive nothing. Here you can learn good tactics, that will help you, in front with other players, that will play in tournaments and do not know them. Play if this kind is good for you, guys.
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maragatero , if it's the first time they introduced this frature , well , it was about time PokerStars has its own for a long time, PartyPoker also . it can come in handy . for some games to be sheduled and played . I don't know how sucessfull it will be , time will show . Individuals might try it , more probable players with many followers , some forums maybe , i don't know yet . Private games are interesting to be played sometimes , especially if it's for real money , not just play money , lol
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As I said (write), I knew the PokerStars option (I don´t know the PartyPoker feature), but I never played it because I was leaving that room. So 888poker, where I play a lot actually, bring to me a new opportunity. And I take the idea of CALICUL, that it could be a tool to learn the game. You can play with friends and try different strategies, showing the cards at the end of the hand...
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With all the restrictions now and the lock downs, that is a good move. It can bring friends and not only together to enjoy a game. Although i have to say that family and friends gathering still going on. Not to the same extent as before but they do exist I dont know about other countries, im talking about the situation, that i know in first hand here
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Besides Pokerstars , I think I have seen home games in Partypoker streames on twitch , I have to try and search if his is 100% true and if there are games , like freerolls , for streamers' watchers 888poker has its own homegames now , if some of their streamers schedule some freerolls rher or nice low buy in games , I will play . Or if Bankroll Mob schedules one day a special freeroll there only for members who will play this home game
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they made this thing only because of this situation,so dont know how much was this in their plans and to make this home games in normal situation!so dont believe that they will make some big success from this and that they will have benefits from it!but thats just my opinion!
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I would like to participate in some games with Maragatero, Pajalnick and a few other mobsters, to have a little fun. Sometimes relaxation is needed, because at the moment i am a little upset. My government keep people in the house with COVID 19.
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