Setting Up Your Home Poker Game

June 5, 2008 – 6:17 pm
by Thom Riemersma

Poker is your passion. You play online on a daily basis and you even honed your skills in college. But now you have reached the pinnacle of success and want to get the excitement of hosting you own live home games.

So how will you get the best and coolest poker equipment or your home poker games? You want to be known as the ultimate host for poker games among your poker friends. Here are some pointers to help you.

We’ll start with the big guns first. The poker table. This sucker’s made of 100% hand crafted red Mahogany with a tan felt top. Mahogany is a beautiful hardwood that’ll stand up to the punishment dealt to it by your weekly home games and still look fantastic. Expect to spend about $5000 here.

Sticking with our Mahogany theme, we’ll buy one of those poker chip sets that are designed to sit in your den next to your humidor. It’ll have a glass covered top so you can peer in to see 1500 Paulson poker chips staring back at you. The little hand-carved, felt-lined drawers will glide out to reveal your poker decks and your mother-of-pearl dealer button. This awesome poker chip set, the envy of all who lay eyes on it, will cost you around $2200 and be worth every penny.

Well this is pie in the sky stuff and you will be very unlikely to buy all this fancy equipment. So what is the point here?

Here is the meaning of all this. It is useless to get the most expensive stuff for your poker games. Why? Because “the best” will mean different things to different individuals.

Here is the best thing to do. Go online and look at some articles about poker sets and chips. This will help you to decide what is best for you and your needs. Maybe the most expensive equipment will really make your game, or maybe not. You are the ultimate judge.

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