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[QUOTE="WEC, post: 1901468, member: 31731"]
In college, a big group in my Fraternity regularly played all-night sessions of cash poker for very small stakes.  We were cut-throat with each other but we had fun.  We would even take one weekend once or twice a year and play a 24 hour session, buy a lot of food and drink, and purchased trophies for the top three players in cash won.

After we all graduated we played a weekly game on Wednesdays, still cut-throat, still small stakes.

I moved away, and started playing some larger stakes home games, along with playing at the card club.  It was not among a group of close friends so it was about winning money.

These days, there is [B]no way[/B] I would play any significant stakes at a home game.  Certainly I go to a game with good friends and small game for fun.  But, increasing at an alarming rate are not only are the incidents of cops busting large games (note: when police bust game they take all the money), but robberies of the games as well, many with shootings involved and life lost.  Many of these robberies are inside jobs.

Several people in my local casino have told me of robberies in their own home games, including one where a player also pulled out a gun and actually fired shots, but the robbers got away (several players in this game felt they actually knew who set them up, but police did nothing)
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