🏛 The Rules

Currently (as of 2025) we play monthly on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. The game starts at 7pm pacific time and is hosted on Poker Now and Zoom.

We play No Limit Texas Hold’em, using a tournament format. Everyone starts with the same chips, blinds increase over time, and play continues until one person holds all the chips (see payouts below).

It’s $50 to enter with up to 2 rebuys available within the first hour (cutoff is 8:05pm pacific).

📜 Special Rules

As a reminder, we play with special rules meant to incentivize desired behavior. Some of these rules have significant consequences!

• Mean Girls: Players on the official Zoom call during the game may collude against players who are not on the official Zoom call during the game, provided that the absence is not a temporary one due to technical issues.

• The 2-7 Bonus: If you make it to a showdown with 2-7 you get a free share! But it only counts when there are five or more people at the table. (so if we are split up at the beginning, you might be out of luck until the tables merge). Be sure to announce this as it can happen quick and someone else needs to witness it. If you win in a show down with 2-7 you get five shares.

• The Hope Coin Slayer: Whoever takes out the holder of the Hope Coin gets 1 share.

• The Final Countdown: If seven deuce is played as the final hand of the tournament the player will be given two shares, and if a player wins the tournament with seven deuce they will receive seven shares.

• Cain + Abel: If Mike’s brother Gene is playing (username: webvee) there is a bonus of one share to whoever knocks him out.

• Kevin Deuce: If you are the first person of the night to beat someone at showdown with unsuited K2 and yell “Kevin Deuce!” Beau will give you a share.

🤑 Payouts

If the prize pool is over $500 we pay out 3 spots and if the prize pool is under $500 we pay out 2 spots.
3 Spots:

• 🥇 50%

• 🥈 30%

• 🥉 20%

2 Spots:

• 🥇 70%

• 🥈 30%

🪓 Hope Coin Slayer

The first person to get 3 kills of Hope Coin Holder will receive the Hope Coin and hold it until they are slain 3 times.