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Spice Up Your Home Poker Game With A Casino Quality Poker Table

February 15, 2020   Game guide   No comments

With the recent poker boom it seems like everyone is getting into the game. You can’t turn on your TV without seeing poker somewhere on some channel. The next logical step is home poker games. It’s easy to set up and nearly everyone knows how to play now. The only thing you need is a few poker buddies, some poker chips, and a deck of cards. But what if you wanted to take it a bit further? What if you could have a casino quality poker table right in your own home? Believe it or not, you can.

What if I told you that you could build your own casino quality poker table top for under $200? I’m not talking about those cheap flimsy folding table tops that you see online. I’m talking about a durable all wood table top with a real casino style padded rail and a nice padded playing surface. The nice thing is that anyone who knows how to use a saw can build one.

The supplies you need are as follows: 2 Sheets of ½” plywood 2 Sheets of closed cell foam (1” for the rail and ¼” for the playing surface) 1 Sheet of vinyl to upholster the rail 1 Sheet of fabric to upholster the playing surface Wood nails, Staples, and Adhesive

The first thing you need to do is decide the table that you will be placing your table top on when you play poker. You need to measure and cut both sheets of plywood to the size of that table’s top. This should give you 2 identical pieces of plywood that also match the size and shape of the table that will be supporting your finished product. Once this is done you need to cut a 4.5” ring off of one piece and a 2” ring off of the other piece of plywood. These two rings of wood will later form the padded rail.

The next step is to upholster the playing surface. To do this all you need to do is fix the sheet of ¼” foam to the smaller of your 2 pieces of plywood, cut off the excess, and add felt. Once the foam is trimmed down to size just lay the wood (foam side down) on top of the felt and staple it around the edges after pulling it tight. You may want to have a friend help out with this part to make sure that you get the felt tight on the surface of the table.

The place where most people struggle with this project is when they are trying to build and upholster the padded rail. To start you need to place the 2” ring of wood on top of the 4.5” ring and screw them together. Then you will use the 1” sheet of foam to cover the rail but don’t cut off all of the excess like you did with the playing surface. You want to leave enough foam on the inside and outside of the rail so that it can wrap around and pad the sides of the railing as well as the top. Once the rail is padded and trimmed you need to cover it with vinyl just like you covered the playing surface with felt. When you are stapling the inside you will find that you need to cut the vinyl to make it fit properly without any wrinkles. This isn’t a problem; just make sure you don’t cut too much away.

With both the playing surface and the padded rail complete all you need to do is place the rail over the playing surface and screw them together from below. The finished product is a durable poker table top that has the same look and feel of any casino table in the world. If you like you can also build legs and have the table be a permanent fixture in your game room. Now… Shuffle up and deal!!!

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Texas Hold Em Poker Strategy – 12 Steps To Success

February 15, 2020   Game type   No comments

This Texas Hold Em Poker strategy is an easy game for any beginner. Read this article now to learn how.

Texas Hold Em Poker can be understood quickly and the more one plays, the quicker and better he grasps the nuances of the game.

It is played with a normal deck of 52 cards. Many poker rooms offer beginners, tables where they can practice and play for free.

Once the players are confident of themselves, they can start playing on real money tables. There is also the option of practicing online, where one can avoid details like shuffling, dealing etc.

Texas Hold Em Poker Strategy – How The Game Is Played

The game is played, as detailed below:

1 – First the players place blinds or antes for the game to start, which is called posting.

2 – A standard deck of 52 cards is then shuffled.

3 – Two cards are dealt for every player which are placed face down. These initial cards are called pocket or hole cards.

4 – Then the betting starts and similar to most poker games, the players are allowed to call, raise or fold.

5 – After the round of betting, the dealer then removes the first card (called the burn card) from the deck, to prevent cheating.

6 – The dealer opens the next three cards and puts them on the table (face up).

7 – Any player can use these cards along with their own cards to get a poker hand.

8 – Another round now begins with the players betting, starting again from the person who is to the dealer’s left.

9 – After everyone has given his bet, the dealer flips one card, called the turn. Many times the bets double at this stage.

10 – A card is burnt by the dealer who places one last card on the table – called the river. Players are allowed to use their own cards plus any of the cards on the table (totally 5 cards).

11 – The player who has the best hand is the winner. At times there may be a tie where players split the money.

12 – A player who is confident of his cards “raises” the bet, the one who is not sure “folds” and the game ends with the “show”.

These are the basic steps you’ll need to conquer to utilize any profitable Texas Hold Em Poker strategy. Please continue to learn more about Hold Em so that you can make money playing this fabulous game.

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