My Weekly PokerStars Home Game

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My Home game is currently on hold and games are not running. If there is enough demand, I will re-start the home game in the future.

*****Sign up info is no longer active*****

PokerStars Home Game:

Club ID: 1976954

Invitation Code: playpoker

Weekly Prizes:

These prizes are awarded each week to the top three finishers of my home game tournament.

This is important!!! If you win one of the prizes, you must email support@jonathanlittlepoker.com your full name, twitch name, pokerstars name, and email address to claim your prize.

1sT:

5 Reward Stars for my video training products

2nd:

3 Reward Stars for my video training products

3rd:

1 Reward Star for my video training products

Poker Coaching Account

In order to redeem your rewards, a PokerCoaching.com account is required.  If you do not have an account, sign up for a FREE Poker Coaching account using the link below.

Free Account

https://members.pokercoaching.com/start_trial.php

How to Redeem Your Rewards

Click the video below for instructions on how to redeem your rewards.

How to sign up:

You can NOT sign up through PokerStars New Jersey, only the global clients PokerStars.net and PokerStars.com.

To sign up for the PokerStars home game, simply download PokerStars and then navigate to the Home Game tab.

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Click “Join a Poker Club”.

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Then enter:

Club ID: 1976954

Invitation Code: playpoker

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I then have to manually accept you, which may take me up to 24 hours. Once I have accepted you, be sure to log back into PokerStars and register for the tournament. You will see JonathanLittlePoker under your list of poker clubs.

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Then click on JonathanLittlePoker, click on Schedule, then you will see the upcoming tournaments.

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Simply register for the tournaments you want to play and you will be all set.

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Log into PokerStars prior to the tournament and the table should automatically pop up once the tournament begins. I am looking forward to playing with you. Please please please share this post with your friends. I want this league to be a huge success so I can continue running it. Thank you and good luck!

This game was initially run as a league, with Kuno2001 claiming the title as well as the $1,500 grand prize. I will start the league back up again sometime after the WSOP, assuming there is enough interest.

season 1

HUGE congrats to Biszibosz for winning $1,000 plus lots of additional prizes in Season 2. Congrats to Qtunneler for taking 2nd for $500 plus lots of prizes.

I was honored to have a coaching session with the first and second place players from Season 1 of the league. Here I am giving them their coaching sessions live in Las Vegas!

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***For those interested, here is how the PokerStars point structure works:

The exact formula for how Home Game statistics are calculated is based upon these factors:

n = number of players in tournament
k = place of finish (k = 1 for 1st place, k = 2 for 2nd place, etc.)
p = integer (n * 0.34)

‘p’ determines who receives points. ‘p’ is the number of places that finish in the top third of the tournament. If there are 6 entrants, then n=6, therefore p=n*0.34, making p=2 (integer of 2.04).

If n = 4, 2 points are awarded for 1st
If n = 5, 3 points are awarded for 1st

For n > 5, points awarded are:

n * (sqrt(n)/sqrt(k)) / [sum (sqrt(n)/sqrt(k)) for k = 1 to k = p]

Each tournament with 6 or more players pays out the total number of points equal to the number of entrants (n). The numbers generated by the above equation tend not to equal ‘n’, in these cases the points are normalised accordingly, by keeping the same ratio but applying it to n, rather than >n.

So if there are 6 entrants n=6, p=2. As p=2.04, only the top 2 finishers will receive points, meaning the equation will work like this:

For 1st, n=6, k=1, p=2.04:

6 * (sqrt(6)/sqrt(1)) / [(sqrt(6)/sqrt(1)) + (sqrt(6)/sqrt(2)) + (sqrt(6)/sqrt(6*0.34))]
6 * (2.449/1) / [(2.449/1) + (2.449/1.414) + (2.449/2.04)]
6 * 2.449 / (2.449 + 1.732 + 1.71)
= 2.49

For 2nd, n=6, k=2, p=2.04:

6 * (sqrt(6)/sqrt(2)) / [(sqrt(6)/sqrt(1)) + (sqrt(6)/sqrt(2))]
6 * (2.449/1.414) / [(2.449/1) + (2.449/1.414)]
6 * 1.732 / (2.449 + 1.732 + 1.71)
= 1.76

These results are then normalised so that 6 points are awarded in total (as each tournament awards ‘n’ points):

For 1st place:

6* (2.49 / (2.49 + 1.76)) = 3.51points

For 2nd place:

6* (1.76 / (2.49 + 1.76)) = 2.49 points

62 thoughts on “My Weekly PokerStars Home Game”

  1. William Luciano

    Jonathan,

    This sounds like a lot of fun. I would like to participate but sadly I don’t get home from work until, 7pm EST. Will any future tournaments run later or on the weekends.

    Thanks,
    Bill

    2. baalbaki

      Where can we find the schedule for these tournaments? Where can we find the leaderboard for the league?
      Thanks

    3. Jonathan Little

      All of the information is online on PokerStars in the home game lobby. Just sign up, get in the lobby, and then click on “Schedule” or “Standings” then “Play Money”.

  3. scott

    I downloaded client from USA , since this is not a cash game but a home game, do I have access? I cannot find how to enter

    1. Jonathan Little

      Yes, Americans can play. I give detailed instructions in the blog post. Please follow them. If they are not clear enough, please contact PokerStars support. I hope to see you in the game.

  5. TommyZ

    That is an amazing opportunity to up my game. I will absolutely mark out 4 pm every Monday that I can in order to play. Thanks again for your dedication to making us better players and especially to those of us who endeavour one day to be professional poker players. I greatly appreciate all you do!

  6. Tim Continenza

    Thanks Jonathan, I can’t wait to play it will be a lot of fun to play on line again. I so glad to see you keeping up with the changes in on line poker with twitch coverage and home games too. Congrats and keep teaching and I will keep learning.

  7. Chris Brant

    Unfortunately here in Spain it looks like we cannot access pokerstars.com. I keep getting rediected to their spanish site. I imagine this will be the same in other jurisdictions where pokerstars operates.

  8. Chris Brant

    Sorry Jonathan. Ignore my previous post. I was able to get in thru the spanish site. Just waitng for your approval.

  11. Loren Finkelstein

    This is great. I’m excited to be a part of it. I can certainly play tomorrow, because of the holiday. Mondays in the future might be harder, because of work.

    I’ll also be curious to see if I can play from my iPad or iPhone. I can’t see the home game tab on it, but maybe, once I am registered for a tourney from the computer I’ll still be able to play from the mobile device.

    We’ll see. Good luck everyone.

  14. Meg Alonso

    Just found out about your homegame. I signed up, but haven’t been accepted yet. Maybe won’t get the acceptance in time for this one? Thanks, looking forward to it.

  16. Mika Hämäläinen

    Hope you’ll have the time to accept all the applications before the game begins. Looking forward to playing in these tournaments. Looks like the club is growing to a decent size and these tournaments are going to have a nice big field.

  17. Bryan Davis

    Hi Jonathan! I’m really excited to have the opportunity to play against you; I’ve been a student of all three of your tournament books and I devour the videos at FloatTheTurn.com. I’ll be taking my first trip to Vegas next month and this experience can only help me there. See you at the tables!

  18. Jonathan

    I am a huge fan Jonathan Little. Your books have improve my tournament game. I know this may be off topic but i know that you are sponsor by blue shark optics and I am thinking about purchasing the new Lava Shark. However I was wondering does all of the models include Crystalion-3 lenses or only the ones that state it in the description?

  19. JOHN HENSHAW

    Pretty cool Jonathan…ill try. Im a bit late joining but i guess i still have shot ..gotta take down a couple. Ty for the opportunity.

  21. Ron

    Hi Jonathan. I joined the league and I thought I would get an e-mail within 24 hours, accepting me into your Home Game. It’s been a few days and I haven’t heard anything yet. I hope you get around to approving me before the next game!
    PS —-I know you must be really busy. Thanks for everything you do.

    1. Jonathan Little

      Everyone has been accepted. I am not sure if PokerStars will email you a confirmation or not. Please be sure to log in and register for the tournament. I’ll see you in the tournament!

  22. SAEED

    This is a great opportunity to play against lots of good, excellent players.
    Thank you for creating your home game Jonathan. I will share this wit some good players here in MS and TN.
    Sincerely,

    Saeed

  23. garyhotmail

    Wanted to thank you again for the raffle prize that I was so lucky to win and for puttin on the league and prizes.I certianly need it as im currently on 0 points but I wil neevr give up and have my eye on 3rd in league or 1st I aim high

    Good Luck to you Jonathan in life and poker sending good karma from UK 🙂

  24. Superado666

    Hey Jonathan,

    Are u planing to make 2nd season of the league ? Unfortunately I did not know about it until now and I am eager to join 🙂

    Good luck

    1. Jonathan Little

      I am not sure. I will be too busy playing the WSOP to host the stream each week but I will let the game keep running. I will still give out the regular weekly prizes. I will likely start the full league back up sometime in August.

  26. Ytuk Relic

    Hi Jonathan,

    Just came across your blog, and really like the content. Can’t wait to study your books. Are you still running the home games? If not, will you do this again in the future?

    Thanks,
    Ytuk

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  30. Mark

    Jonathan for 1st place you say it is $1,000.00 at the 2015 WSOP or EPT event that you attend. What if I don’t attend those events will U send a check to me?

    1. Jonathan Little

      The purpose of giving the money to the winners is so they can play in a WSOP or EPT event. If you can’t attend one of those for whatever reason, I am sure we can work something out.

  31. Core

    This seems like a lot of fun. I applies an have sent a link to friends to try to join as well. I hope I am allowed to play!!! The podcast is top notched !!

  33. Loren Finkelstein

    Hi Jonathan,
    I just tried to get into the game for the first time since I installed Pokerstars NJ on my computer. I blew it. When I signed up for Pokerstars NJ, they converted my account, but I seem to have lost my club membership. When I went to request it again, the club couldn’t be found. Maybe because it’s the last day, or maybe because it’s not on the same server? I’ll have to try again with the next one.

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