I have recently purchased some stuff at amazon to play poker at home:
I highly recommend the set of poker chips that I bought. Even though they are not the real thing, they look like and feel like real casino chips for a fraction of the cost. The set has cost me around 30€, shipping costs and sturdy-looking metal case included. Casino quality chips are made of clay and cost around $1 per chip, which I’m not willing to pay. The chips I have are made of plastic, with a metal insert to give them some wheight (11.5 gram). They stack well and they are not too slippery, which was my primary concern.
300 chips is ok for games with 4 to 5 people. If you plan on hosting 8 to 10 people games, I’d recommend buying the 300 chip set plus a 600 or 800 piece one, instead of a single one with 800 or 1000 chips. This is because the 300 chips together sum around 3.5Kg, which is approaching the limit of wheight that I can comfortably carry on foot, and I’ll occasionally be taking the chips with me. Believe me, playing with chips is a whole new experience compared to betting with bits of cheap Italian pasta :)
Besides the chips, I bought a couple of blue-colored COPAG decks for around 10€ each. If I could go back in time, I’d buy a blue one plus a red-colored one instead of two blue-coulored ones, since they can get mixed easily. But I’d still go COPAG, as the reviews I read on www.homepokertourney.com indicate that this brand has almost top-quality cards for half the price you’d have to pay for KEM cards, which are supposed to be the best. Pros: durable, they return to original shape after being bent. Cons: they feel too thin and slippery for many people (but I’m now used to it) and graphics on the card not as nice as they could be.
By the way, my linuxholdempoker.com experiment has failed, as it has still not caught any visitor from Google since I registered the domain. I’m trying with linux-poker.net instead, and this will be my last experiment on the subject.
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You should change the content cause it’s duplicate in both sites, and update it daily or weekly !
I strongly suggest you to use a blog, and publish some poker stuff like the rules or some shit like this.
good luck, and dont become a gambler, at least not a virtual gambler ! a real gambler is better :D jejejeje
I bought in China some cheaps.. jejeje plastic ones… the cheaper… are great… 2 $ it’s enough, isnt it ? :P
Thanks for the advice :) The problem is that I am not willing to spend much more time working on the sites, they will most likely stay as they are.
By the way, the site got its first visitor from Google: a Chilean visitor. It seems the Spanish translation was worth the time I spent on it. Unfortunately he didn’t sign up… This would be too much :)
Thank you very much for your post. Absolutely excellent information and very useful for me. Great done and keep posted. Looking forward to reading more from you.
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