As you might remember, I’m lucky enough to be in a guild with a large concentration of members in the Salt Lake City area. This is great for fostering a sense of community
but it’s even better for party planning. This Saturday, several of my guildmates got together for a structured activity: Poker. The twist? We played for WoW gold! (Shhhh! Don’t tell Blizzard!)
I’m so happy with how this event turned out that I’d like to share with you how we did all the planning and structure in case any of you would like to try something similar.
The Rules
I won’t go into the full details, but here are a few of the highlights from the rules created by Valenna and Mr. Phae:
Blinds increase every 30 minutes, starting at 1/2 and eventually reaching 50/100 with one blind increase from 10/20 to 25/50 at two and a half hours.
The players who place fifth through first place receive an increasing percentage of the total payout.
In addition, the player with the best hand for the night (who does not also place in 1st-5th place) receives a smaller % of the total payout. The breakdown for payouts is as World of Warcraft Gold follows:
1st Place: 37% of total gold
2nd Place: 24% of total gold
3rd Place: 16% of total gold
4th place: 11% of total gold
5th Place: 7% of total gold
Best Hand: 5% of total gold
In our case, with nineteen players (each of whom purchased one or more rebuys and a single add-on), our total pot size ended up at 5200 gold.
WTT Chips for Gold
To make things more fun, we substituted plastic pirate gold and colored gems for poker chips. You can find packages of plastic gold coins at most party supply stores for around $4/144 coins, and we found craft stores to be a great source for fake gemstones. We bought two bags of gems
one from the mosaic crafts section that are like rhinestones but without a mirrored back and one with
clear plastic diamonds about an inch in diameter. The gems came in two sizes and several shapes, so we divided each kind into two denominations. All the “currency“ (coins and gems) were collected in a small, wooden treasure chest we found on sale for $6, giving things a polished look when we presented it at the game.
Special Items
In addition to the gold coins and gemstones, we included special items. We purchased some from the party store
where we found the pirate coins, but many were things we had around the house. We Wow Gold created custom tooltips for them printed on heavyweight parchment paper.
Mrs. Valenna used an eyelet-punch to insert a metal Wow Power Leveling ring in them so we could attach them to the items with colored string without damaging them. She also rounded off the corners so they wouldn’t get bent up. Below is a slideshow of photos I took during the preparation process:
Each item was worth 100 gold a piece and were offered during the “addon“ phase. As a twist and to encourage the total pot size to grow, players could pay 100 gold for two items (essentially doubling their investment). And here were few of my favorite tooltips:
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