You’re Invited to the Thinking Poker Home Game!

Edit: The buy-in for the tournament will be $5+$.50.

Second edit: The invite code is “foucault”, I’m told you need that join. Sorry for the confusion.

Third edit: Invite code is all lowercase.

I’m pleased to announce that I’m starting a Thinking Poker League on the new PokerStars Home Game feature. We’ll have a tournament every Sunday at 16:30 ET, coinciding with the start of the Sunday Million. Whomever is at the top of the leaderboard after 10 tournaments (unless it’s I, in which case we’ll go to the second place finisher) will receive a three-month subscription to Poker Savvy Plus and a free, hand-by-hand “leakfinder” analysis of a NLHE tournament or cash game session of his/her choosing recorded by me and posted on Poker Savvy Plus.

The first event will be this Sunday, February 28, at 16:30 ET. The format for this week is 6-handed NLHE with deep stacks and a slow structure. I’m very open to feedback on this, though, so if you join the league, you’ll have an opportunity to offer your thoughts and suggest alternative formats for future weeks. I’m also open to scheduling separate set of tournaments at another time if a number of people tell me they are interested in playing but can’t make the Sunday time. So please leave me a comment if you have any requests or suggestions about the Thinking Poker League, and hopefully I can accommodate everyone who’s interested in playing.

I’ll also be hosting a Thinking Poker cash game through this league on weeknights, with the first game taking place at 20:00 ET on Tuesday March 1. The format for that is also open to discussion but for the first game will be full-ring NLHE with $.10/$.25 blinds and a 100-250BB buyin. The cash games won’t have any affect on the league standings but should be a lot of fun!

To sign up for the League, please find the Thinking Poker League in the PokerStars Home Game tab and request to join. The Club ID is 312467. And again, if you have any suggestions, please leave a comment.

16 thoughts on “You’re Invited to the Thinking Poker Home Game!”

  1. First off sounds awesome. Can’t wait to play.
    Secomnd, Perhaps I’m missing something but when I go to the Home Games tab my only options are to create a home game or join one. When I click to join one it asks for a Club ID, which you gave us, but it also asks for an invitation code. I did not see that above? Am I incorrect or do we need this?
    thanks
    -Kev

  2. Wow. Just wow.
    I am so sick of losing my money to the average nobody. Now I can lose to a real pro!
    🙂
    Good on you for doing this. I’ll make them when I can.

  3. Doesn’t seem to be working for me, even with the passcode. Error is: club code and invitation combination not valid (paraphrased). It suggests checking the spelling but I copy/pasted from your post.

    Sweet idea though, looks like a lot of fun and there’s a pretty sweet reward for us less than awesome players.

    • Otherwise a cool state, though. One of my favorite places that we visited. In fact if it weren’t for the online poker thing there’s a fair chance I’d be there right now.

  5. Would love to do these but they are a bit past my bedtime. Any prospect of scheduling something for readers in europe?

    • Thanks for the suggestion. I’d like to find a way to accommodate you all.

      The best Euro-friendly time for me would be 13:00 ET on Saturday. I’d be curious to hear from you all whether that’s a good time or if it will conflict with your plans to go to the disco, which is how I assume all Europeans spend their Saturday nights. Maybe I’ll schedule a cash game for that time next week and see how many people show up.

    • Looks like only 10 minutes. Unfortunately I don’t think this is a feature I have control over. FWIW the tournament has a deep and slow structure, so if you registered and were blinded off for like half an hour I don’t think it would have a huge impact on your stack.

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