Running a Good Home Game

Posted on December 9, 2009 
Filed Under General

Home games for poker can sometimes be the most fun you’ll ever have playing cards, as long as the conditions are right that is. The typical home game is played on a kitchen table with slippery cards, plastic chips and no real sense of structure. While this may cut the mustard for the average card player, your tastes should be elevated about that. You don’t necessarily need to drop a lot of cash on good home game gear, but it helps, plus if you constantly have the same friends over night after night you can even ask them to chip in if you think they’d be willing to help out.

First up you need to go first rate on the essential items like cards and chips. When you buy cards you’ll want to stick to brand names like Bicycle, which are very cheap. Chips will run you a little more if you go for the better, heavier clay models, but it’s worth the investment since the chips are practically good forever. From there you can start looking at the little extra items that make a game more realistic, such as a dealer button and chip racks. These poker accessories are easy to find online and generally run very cheap.

If you really want to wow your friends though you’ll want to upgrade to a full poker table the likes of which you’d see only in the best poker rooms in Vegas. I personally dropped about $1,000 on my poker table (which is in the image featured in this post), and it was worth every penny. Most poker table makers will let you customize every aspect of your table, from having wood inlay installed, or cup holders put in, or even selecting what color the felt is.

Regardless of what your budget may be however, you’ll still be able to get a good selection of items for your home game. It’ll make your friends happy, which hopefully will make them more likely to gamble on those drawing hands of theirs.

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