Halloween Party Ideas

To be consistent with the black and orange motif of Halloween, serve cocktails on Halloween that utilize these colors. Mix a punch mixture with orange soda or orange juice to give it that extra Halloween radiance. For an additional touch, buy ice cube trays in the shape of Halloween ghosts to place in the punch at your celebration. You can’t celebrate Halloween without candy! Lay out bowls of orange and black jellybeans, M&Ms, candy corn, candy pumpkins, and other fun candy to get your guests in the Halloween spirit!

You can never go wrong with the classic pumpkin-carving contest. Get guests excited for the contest by supplying a prize for the winning carver. Go to the pumpin farm and purchase a lot of huge pumpkins that are perfect for carving. Give friends paints, carving tools, markers, felt and other decorative crafting items from your local craft store to make their pumpkin. Then select three friends to judge the winning pumpkin. Give the winner a prize, and display the winning pumpkin as your centerpiece at your fete.

Halloween Party Food

The hostess planned, decorated and prepared until she could do no more so that all her friends and family would have a Halloween party they’d never forget. Give a little thanks to your Halloween party hostess! Prepare something delicious, or cook up something spicy like a tapenade or a salsa to gift to your hostess for throwing such a ghoulish party. If your hostess has a sweet tooth, add recipe ingredients for a delightful biscuit recipe, or smores sweet and add a DIY label for a sweet treat to give thanks your host.

As a marvelous conclusion to your Halloween celebration, try an “eyeball cake”. To make your own edition of this Halloween cake, sculpt a round eyeball shape out of stacked layer cakes or use a 3-D ball-shaped pan to make the cake. Dye icing to your preferred eyeball colors and create the same eyeball design. To give your cake blood shot eyes, create red lines, you can use gel decorator icing found in the grocery store baking aisle.

I was at a home game a few weeks ago, and I was doing pretty darn well. I was hanging at the top two or three chip positions for the majority of the night, and I had just made my way to the top of the chip stack food chain, when the proprietor of the game decided to double the blinds. Again. We’d been playing for a good four hours, and the blinds had been doubling every half hour. This last raise had pushed things into the ridiculous-each time the big blind went around, I was going in for almost a quarter of my stack, and remember, I was the big blind.

Essentially, every hand turned into an all in moment, because if you were the big blind, you were pot-commited. Strategy was gone, the game was all about who had the best cards. It took one round for me to lose the chip lead, and before I knew it, I was out of the money and the chips were getting shuffled around the table with every hand.

If you’re hosting a home game, cap the blinds at some point. Otherwise, the whole night’s work can be for nothing when blinds turn the whole night into a game of chance. Either that or just practice somewhere else like Everest Poker.

The key component to a dinner party is the food. When company is arriving at the last minute, it helps to have staples already accessible. You may not have time to make a foodie menu, but with basic food items, you can easily create a few no-fuss, yummy recipes. Things like pasta, rice, beans, flour, sugar, olive oil and chicken stock are pantry staples to keep on hand. In addition, it’s always good to have additional items like yogurt, cheese, lemons, ground beef and chicken breast in the refrigerator or freezer.

Craft a mix by changing up the style every few songs. Begin with a mood/lounge mix, go to pop music and rock-and-roll, and end the night on a high note with high-energy music people can dance to. It doesn’t have to be a dance party – it’s the energy of the music you’re going for, not the intent to get guests swaying their hips! If you appear uneasy or are concerned things won’t go well, your friends will pick up on it as soon as they walk in the room. If you are easy going and have a good time, everyone else will follow too.

So, most of the time when you’re playing online poker there is always one or two people that will hurl insults on the chat feature at an online table. Sometimes it is two people arguing with each other, sometimes it’s one person complaining about every bad beat, or calling everyone a “donk” or some such thing. Anyway, this can get quite annoying and distracting.

So, what to do about this? Well, I generally just turn off the player chat feature on any online poker site I happen to be playing at. Most will allow you to do this as an option, to block any player comments in the chat window.

You could come off as being rude, if someone asks you a questions or says “nice hand” or something and you don’t see it, but that is not such a big deal. We’re here to win money, not to make friends. And if you turn off the player chat option, all the annoying people who write annoying things in an attempt to get you off your game will be powerless. All you have to worry about is taking their money.