It can sometimes be more difficult to find the time and the opportunity for all of you and all of your old buddies to get together, catch up, and hang out like guys as all of you get older and start families of your own, and for this reason it is beneficial – if you hope to maintain those friendships you have built over the years – that you come up with a way to regularly get together, and one of the best ways to have a regular hangout night is to host a poker night with your pals.

In order to have a successful poker night with your pals, making sure you have the right equipment is the first thing you will need to do: you will not need to have an actual poker table (although it would be nice to have one!), but you should make sure you have a table that will seat everyone who is coming, and that you have enough poker chips for all the people; also, you should make sure you have two or three good decks of cards (that have all the cards in them!) before you get started.

You and your buddies will be able to play poker together when you have the right equipment, but you may also want to include a few extras to ensure that the poker night is a success: when you provide food and drinks for everyone, it will allow everyone to feel more comfortable and have more fun; on the first poker night you host, you should provide these things yourself, but as time progresses – and as your poker night becomes a regular occurrence – you can rotate who provides the food and drinks each week.

And you should know what the plan is before everyone shows up at your house: know what games you will play, what the buy-in will be, whether extra buy-ins will be allowed, what the blinds will be, how the blinds will progress, and so on. Knowing these things before everyone shows up – and simply letting everyone know how the night is going to be – will be better than to try and figure things out as a group once everyone gets there; and with these tips in mind, you will be all set to have a perfect poker night!

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