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Game Room Decor: Food and Drink Cart
If you or your poker buddies think a precious poker table is a good place for food and drinks, well, you couldn’t be more wrong. Your poker table is for arms, maybe some elbows, cards, poker chips, and nothing else. So stop ruining your poker table and get a food and drink cart for essential game room decor already! How can you do this without cramping your game room style? It’s simple. A casino style food and drink cart is that not far within your reach with PokerShop.com.
If you’re looking for a stunning mahogany, oak or solid wood black mahogany food and drink cart to use efficiently and tastefully in your game room, then you’ve got it. These drink carts are just like the ones you see in famous poker rooms all around the world. They are each equipped with cup holders, extended hidden trays that slide in and out, and also have 360° rotating wheels for your added convenience. So be prepared the next time you’re scheduled to host the next poker night within your poker circle. Friends don’t let friends ruin poker tables, buy a food and drink cart today for the best game room decor decision you’ve ever made.
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I Finally Got a Custom Poker Chip Set!
Back when I first started playing poker I didn’t really take my supplies too seriously. My friends and I used a pretty beat up deck of cards that were from the gift shop at Busch Gardens, and someone always ended up bringing these cheap plastic poker chips. As a table, we brought in the patio table from the backyard, umbrella and all! Yeah, those were the good old days.
Now that I’m an adult, with more refined sensibilities, I’ve really worked hard to improve my poker table supplies. The first thing I did was get an actual poker table. Then I worked on the game room décor, and finally, I treated myself to a custom poker chip set. I think it really shows off my maturity as a poker player. I got a gorgeous wooden case that can hold a 500 count of chips. I wanted to get a wooden case because I feel like it’s more of a keepsake than an aluminum and it looks great on the mantel in my game room. I also decided to go with Paulson chips since they had the most professional look to them. All in all, when I take a look around my game room and see my pretty little custom poker chip set sitting on my mantel, it’s funny to think how far I’ve come since the old patio poker table days.
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Poker Books Can Help You Count Cards
Poker books are for players serious about getting better at the game. One of the best ways, and most complicated, is card counting. I mean blackjack card counting. What’s blackjack card counting? Glad you asked!
To put it simply, blackjack card counting is a mathematical system of keeping track of every card dealt from a blackjack deck to better understand which cards are still left in the deck to be played.
Of course, it’s not quite as simple as that. That’s why there are whole poker books written about strategies.
We offer quite a selection of poker books, so you have your pick. A real favorite on the topic of card counting is J.C. Moores Blackjack X-Count 2000. Here’s the blurb:
“J.C. Moore’s proven mathematics-based card-counting system will transform you from a marginal occasional winner (and more often loser) to a consistent, dominant force at the blackjack tables. By comparing his system to traditional card counting systems, Moore enables the reader to become an expert blackjack player in just a few hours. A series of blackjack essays, followed by a detailed description of his (in)famous techniques, will turn your blackjack bankroll into stacks and stacks of chips that will make your gambling friends envious, and the pit bosses more than a little concerned.”
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One Family’s Dream Game Room Decor
Our family hearts poker!
We know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away, know when to run. We never count our money when we’re sitting at the table…
Well, you get the idea. We practice our poker faces in every mirror we pass, and devote a whole room in our homes to game playing, even if it means the kids have to share a bedroom upstairs. They understand! They love the game room decor, too!
Our game room decor is pretty cool, but we want more. In addition to the poker table, pool table, foosball table and ping-pong table we already have, we dream of walls lined with pinball machines, arcade games, football toss, double shootout and shuffleboard. Oh, man, will we have fun. Oh, boy, do we already!
But we can’t stay in the house all the time. Sometimes we have to go places. We can hardly bear love the game room decor in our home, but if we must, we try to always be surrounded by games, playing. Thank goodness everyone in our family has an iPhone! I play internet poker on mine, of course, and my wife is insane for Crazy Shapes. The kids think Pacman was just invented. We don’t worry about correcting their history yet. We’re just enjoying seeing their love for games grow!
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Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games
Last week on this blog we discussed how PokerShop.com offers a lot more to the poker enthusiast than simple poker table supplies. We discussed Poker DVDs, specifically Phil Hellmuth’s Million Dollar Poker System (To view that blog post CLICK HERE).
This week, in keeping with the educational theme, we’ll discuss one of the many Poker Books available at pokershop.com intended to help you improve your game.
The game of poker reached a tremendous level of popularity in the past decade because of the internet and internet-operated games. In the book Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games, readers will learn how to take on “poker’s brave new world.”
The writes of this book, Lou Kreiger and Kathleen Keller Watterson, recognize how daunting and different playing on the internet can be, regardless of whether or not actual money is being spent. This is a new horizon, a card game “consisting of virtual tables, player icons representing you and your opponents, and specialized computer algorithms that randomly shuffle.” That’s why you need every tool and every advantage you can get.
With Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games, you’ll get a reference, not just a tutorial, and the study guide comes with a CD full of poker software that will help you “play the Internet games for fun or for profit.”
To get this book now, CLICK HERE!
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Buy Poker DVDs at PokerShop.com
At pokershop.com, they offer so much more than just your average poker table supplies. They offer Poker Books and DVD’s that instruct you on various techniques and strategies that will make you a better poker player.
Amongst these Poker DVDs offered is the Phil Hellmuth’s Million Dollar Poker System, which offers advice on “when to Hold’em or Fold’em, how to add a pot, poker psychology, Phil’s top ten Hands and much more.”
So, in honor of the 11-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and the self-declared “Greatest Poker Player on the Planet,” we present out Three Favorite Phil Hellmuth Rants:
In a hand against Jim Pittman at the 2005 WSOP Main Event:
“This frickin’ donkey stuck $15,000 with King Jack…I mean…the guy can’t even spell poker. I re-raise to let him know what I had. (points to the board) He peeled (a King off), a Jack off for the sucker. Learn how to fold a hand. Some of the worst players in the world. I can’t believe this is the World Series of Poker.”
In a hand against Paul MaGriel:
That maniac put all that money in with two sevens, honey. Did you see that? That maniac put all the money in with two sevens…. If it wasn’t for luck, I’d win a hell of a lot more of these (expletive) tournaments, I tell you that much.”
And our #1 personal favorite….
“I forgot my name. What’s my name. Am I Phil Hellmuth?”
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The Poker Table You Deserve
Listen, you can’t play poker without a table. It’s a pretty unarguable fact.
And that doesn’t mean just any table will get the job done either. Example: tray-table on the back of an airline seat? Not acceptable.
The old plastic fold-up table that still has beer-pong stains from when you were in college? Not acceptable.
The tiny circular wooden thing that keeps getting your cards stuck every time you slide cards across it? Not acceptable.
No, if you’re playing a REAL game, you need to get yourself a REAL table. That’s why PokerShop.com is pleased to offer a plethora of different poker tables and poker table supplies.
You deserve something with a professional-feeling felt top. You deserve built-in chip trays and drink holders (after all, if a mini-van can have them, why shouldn’t you?). You deserve mahogany wood and padded rails. You deserve a table as nice as the pro’s get… and not to mention your friends will love you for it.
We understand the appeal of wanting all your buddies to wanna play at your place. And we’re also firm believers in the “home table” advantage (Of course, if you’re looking for a real advantage, check out some of our great Poker Books and Poker DVDs currently for sale). So get online. Get yourself the perfect poker table for you. Find that lucky seat and get playing!
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