The Home Poker League Guide — Free Download

You made it. Here's the guide — the complete playbook for turning your regular poker night into a season your friends won't stop talking about.

Why a league?

Most home games are one-and-done: a cash game or a single tournament, and by next week nobody remembers who won. A league links your game nights together with points and a leaderboard — one night becomes a season, a season ends with a championship, and suddenly every hand matters. Players can even miss a night and still stay in the race.

The 7 steps at a glance

The full guide breaks each step down with exact numbers, tables and printables.

What's inside the guide

• The four-step framework — Play, Record, Rank, Finish. Keep these four and change everything else.
• A copy-paste starter preset — 10 game nights, one 9-seat table, 10K stacks, best-8 scoring, and a Championship Final. Run Season 1 exactly as written, then make it yours.
• Season setup in seven choices — name, dates, final, place, reward, RSVP, scorekeeper. Write them down once and you're ready for Game 1.
• A full blind structure and chip breakdown — 20 chips = 10,000, with a level-by-level tournament blind sheet.
• Payout and points tables — nightly and championship payouts that scale with your player count.
• Printables — everything you need at the table, ready to print.

Gear up for Season 1

A league feels official when the table looks official. Pulse makes the poker mats, chips and cards that turn a kitchen table into the venue your season deserves.

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