Founder Poker Networking
Founder Poker Networking — a Spice King poker night!
I'm co-hosting with Lisa Yan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thelisayan/) — a founder herself! She won the Pear poker tournament and she's a known poker shark.
Most poker nights sit you at one table with the same eight people all night. We do the opposite. Every 55 minutes the tables break and reshuffle — so by the end of the night you've played, talked, and traded war stories with a whole room of founders, operators, and investors, not just whoever you drew first. Halfway through, everyone stops for a mandatory 30-minute break: real food, no cards, just the conversations that were already heating up at the table.
It's all cash games — sit down when you want, cash out when you want, play sharp or play loose. OR NOT PLAY AT ALL! The pot isn't the point. The point is that you walk out with 7–10 people worth texting on Monday: your next co-founder, angel, design partner, or friend.
SCHEDULE
Here's the schedule cleaned up and framed the way a founder reads it — where every block has an obvious purpose:
Founder Poker Club — Run of Night
6:30 – 7:00 · Arrivals & Networking
Grab a drink, get your seat assignment, meet a few people before the cards come out.7:00 – 8:00 · First Session (table change at the hour)
One hour of cash-game play. Tables reshuffle at the break so you're not stuck with the same eight all night.8:00 – 8:30 · Dinner Break
Cards down, food out. Thirty minutes to actually finish the conversations that started at the table.8:30 – 10:30 · Main Session (table changes every 55 min)
Two hours of play across rotating tables — this is where you meet the rest of the room.~10:30 · Last Hands & Settle Up
Cash out on PokerBank, trade numbers with the 7–10 people worth texting Monday.
The whole night runs on PokerBank, the platform we're building for live poker, so you'll catch it in action while you're at it. But mostly it's a room engineered to turn strangers into your network.
Come for the cards. Leave with the network.
— Spice King