Poker tables chips and supplies

Setting up a home game is mostly a matter of getting four dull things right, and none of them is the table. Chips come first: enough of them that nobody has to make change mid-hand, in three colours a player can tell apart across a lit table, and heavy enough to stack without sliding. Weight is personal, but once people have played with a chip that stacks properly they stop being willing to use the ones that do not.

Cards come second, and the rule is two decks per table. One is in play while the other is being shuffled, which keeps the game moving and removes the single most common source of argument at a kitchen table. Plastic cards cost more than card stock and outlast it many times over, particularly once drinks are involved.

Third is a dealer button, because without one nobody can agree where the action starts. Fourth, if you are playing a tournament rather than a cash game, is something to time the blinds — a phone will do, but something everyone can see keeps the structure honest.

The table itself matters least. A speed cloth over any flat surface deals better than a cheap folding top, and it stores in a drawer. The suppliers below were the ones the column pointed readers to.

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Poker Chips and Supplies

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