Recently, PokerStars added a pretty unique experience to their software.  It is called Home Games.  To learn more about what this new feature is, click on the link.  Meanwhile, I will try and talk about how I view this update.

PokerStars Home Games basically allows you set up your own poker club.  Currently, it can be hard to play with your friends on PokerStars mostly due to the high traffic of players that are on there at all times.  How can you solve this?  Create your own poker club that only the people you choose to be allowed in can play.  This allows you to play against your friends (or enemies) and no one else.

Once creating your own club, you can create a variety of cash games and tournaments.  All the games that are currently offered by PokerStars are at your finger tips.  Though, currently there are a couple limitations on the limits you can play.  But since this new update is still in the beta stages, I would think these limitations will be lifted.

Ok, now that is the gist of it.  I think this will be especially helpful for people out there that currently run a home poker game and are looking for another option.  Hence the name “Home Games”.  I also think this will be helpful to all those people out there that constantly are wearing a tin-foil hat and accuse many players of some sort of cheating.  (I too can fall under this tag, as I have had my suspicions).  But if you are playing with only people you know, assuming that is who you let into your club, this excuse is pretty much thrown out the window.

So, I created my own club, which is already up to 35 members.  Centered around mostly limit 5 card draw.  Though, there may be other variations of 5 card draw implemented.  I have assigned a few people as being an admin, mostly so that the players that reside in European nations can have their own time-friendly tournaments.

I decided it best to not include cash games in this club.  Since the traffic for 5 card draw is not exactly all too high, I did not want to create something to directly compete with what was currently being offered by PokerStars.  However, currently PokerStars has an extremely weak offering of 5 card draw tournaments, especially limit 5 card draw.  SOOOOO, this is where this club comes in.  I am hoping to give other players more options to play some 5 card draw tournaments.

If you would like to join this club, log into PokerStars and under the “Home Games” tab, search for club # 8373.  PokerStars will ask you for a passcode.  The passcode for this club is “5 Card Draw”.  Make sure you capitalize the C and D in the passcode.  Once you do that, it is time to put on your online poker face and play some cards!  Good luck to all who decide to join the club!