Thinking of Setting up A Weekly Poker Tournament

[MrLucidLJ]

What's the problem with you people- it's a poxy pub game in macroom. He needs a deck of cards and chips all purchased from the €2 store.

Buffet/sexy dealers/insurance are NOT required.

Thanks for the comment dude.

[MrLucidLJ]

A tournament is where you are providing a game and charging a "service" rate. This is a grey area in law. A cash game requires a special licence http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/..._and_lotteries
and, in the eyes of the law, is the same as you taking horse bets in a pub from customers! Not so grey!

Get your venue sorted (set your date and time). Spread the word among people who you know are interested. Get someone who knows poker to come on board with you (you will need someone to act as TD for rulings and possibly deal final table) and you be the promotion behind the game. Download an online poker clock and get a cheap projector. (if the pub have a TV then connect the clock to it through a VGA cable). You can set this up very cheaply and then, if it does not work out, then all it's cost you is small money, time and effort.... Good Luck with it!

Appreciate the comment an actual good link to check out equipment like that would take time to save up and for the start I would need to be dealer / TD. Yes its weird how its a grey area that's why I want to go to solicitor to fully know 100 percent.

[MrLucidLJ]

There's no pub games in Killarney bar one game that used to be on upstairs in one pub ran by the owner. The only place to play here is the cue club so I think somebody has been telling you lies.

You didn't answer my questions ask you if you knew the lad i know who set one up here a few years back and I said do you know the lad who runs one in Killarney I never said whether it was a pub or not so no one was telling me lies man.

[dobby]

You didn't answer my questions ask you if you knew the lad i know who set one up here a few years back and I said do you know the lad who runs one in Killarney I never said whether it was a pub or not so no one was telling me lies man.

Yes I know the lad who tried setting up in Macroom. There may have been more than one though. Yes I know the lads who run the Killarney games.

[westlife]

Appreciate the comment an actual good link to check out equipment like that would take time to save up and for the start I would need to be dealer / TD. Yes its weird how its a grey area that's why I want to go to solicitor to fully know 100 percent.

if it is just a local game. get some table tops, chips, laptop and projector (all can be bought second hand).... should not cost more than 400-500 yoyo's.... if the interest is there than get a poker person to go into a partnership with you....... half the cost again. Don't advertise too much about cash games... just let players know that they could happen!