Texas Hold Em Folding Poker Table – Spice up your home games!
There is nothing like owning your own Texas Hold Em Folding Poker Table to spice up your home game. Brightly colored and authentic looking, they change a boring poker game into a night of excitement. I suddenly became the poker place when I purchased my first poker table, even for friends that showed no interest before.
There are a wide variety of folding poker tables to choose from designed for Texas Hold Em, but really they can be used for any card game. Let’s go over what features to watch for and you can click the links to see some typical styles.
If you are handy with power tools a popular option lately has been to build your own. There are several plans you can get online as well as the parts you cannot get locally such as the felt and padding. The advantage for the do-it-yourselfer is you can give it your own personal design, but the cost will be a bit higher than if you buy it pre-made. Unless you are a real carpenter or engineer, you might not want to attempt this. This is not a simple task.
The top advantages of folding poker tables against stationary tables are lower cost because of reduced shipping, and the convenience to put them in storage when you don’t need them.
The poker table you choose depends on two things primarily, how much you want to spend, and how much space you have for it. Let us take the last first.
Space: If you have a game or recreation room or some other large area to play, then a full size table can seat up to 8 or 10 players. For a more realistic casino look, feel, and sound, they include padding under the felt. They usually also include padded armrests and cup holders for each player. Poker tables for 10 players are about 7 feet long, and for 8 players 73″, and they are shaped in an oval.
If you lack a large area to play, such as an apartment or you do not want to be moving furniture around for set up, you might want to consider a 48″ octagon poker table or a folding poker table top. Table tops are unique in that they have most of the features of the poker tables, but they do not have legs. Just unfold them and set them up on any kitchen or dining room table, eliminating the need to move furniture.
Cost: If you really do not want to spend much, or you are looking for a gift for a poker buff, you can get a poker table top for as low as 50 or 60 dollars including shipping. The price for these goes into the low 100 dollar range for the premium and larger tops. Folding poker tables start around 170 dollars for the 8 player tables with shipping, and mid 200 dollars for full size 10 player tables. This is much less than tables that don’t fold up that can be over one thousand dollars.
Using your own Hold’em table at your next game will create casino like excitement and greatly enhance your next home tournament.
