1st Poker Table Build, Chip Drawers, and Pulley System for Ceiling Storage (Auburn, NY) (1 Viewer)

nholm325e

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Hi,

I would first like to thank everyone on this poker forum for all the great information!! This has been THE resource for learning how to build a poker table and determining miscellaneous details. Definitely learned a lot and would only tweak a couple things for next time, but all around an AMAZING first table. Super happy!! With full weight on rail the table does not flex or twist at all...it's rock solid. My friends and I have been using a fold out table (wal-mart special haha) for the last 10+ years so I finally decided to upgrade table and chips.

- 10 Player oval poker table
- Table Size - 46" x 94"
- Raised Rail - 1"
- Rail Width - 6"
- Betting Area - 18" x 70" (though I would tweak the 70" next time)
- Surface - Double 1/4" padding topped with Custom Design Casino Smooth playing surface
- Rail Material - 1" Foam wrapped in Whisper Vinyl
- Jumbo Cup Holders
- Spring Loaded Handles
- Tournament Chip Set
- Cash Game Chip Set


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Storing the poker table in the ceiling is a lot easier than trying move it up/down the basement stairs so I built this contraption haha

All I gotta do is install (4) eyebolts into the cup holders, loop in cables, then crank the hand winch. After it’s up to the ceiling attach cross bars using wing nuts. This removes the load from the cable system. Clears the garage door so that can still open and close.

Built pulley boxes using plywood. Had extra acrylic from the poker table build so I installed little windows in them so you can see what’s going on inside, looks pretty cool. Stained those cherry. Built horizontal cable tray to ensure things don’t get hung up on random stuff. Still gotta do some finishing touches here and there but good progress for now


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Reminds me of cranking the basketball nets up and down. Very nice robust system. Would love to see a diagram of how you ran the cables to keep the plane level.
 
Do you have carbon fiber in your cup holders?
Carbon fiber?? Not sure I know what you are asking about but they are stainless steel cup holders sitting in plywood cutouts. They are not glued in or anything, just pressed in between the vinyl and wood
 
My bad…zoomed in. Looked like carbon fiber in the bottom.
 

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Reminds me of cranking the basketball nets up and down. Very nice robust system. Would love to see a diagram of how you ran the cables to keep the plane level.
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Created a pretty crude diagram above. I used a plum bob and laser level to get everything lined up on the x, y, z axis's. I could have dialed back the overall cable thickness and pulley diameters but decided to error on the side of caution to account for unsuspected loads and resistances. This was my first-time using pulleys and cables. Got everything from Lowes except winch; that I snagged from Amazon.

1) Installed J-Hook lags into the ceiling and attached swivel pulleys to those (Shown in RED). Since this hardware would hang the lowest from the ceiling that would be my reference point for remaining Ceiling/Wall Pulley locations. The winch on the other hand (which is installed at the end, see below) would be hardware that stuck out furthest from the wall so that was my refence point for that axis (though not super important since it has guides to accommodate a range of angles)

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2) Now that I knew the distance the 3/16" cable would be from the ceiling, I created mounting supports for the Ceiling/Wall Pulleys (shown in VIO) to match that. I supported those pulleys with an additional 1" angle iron (or maybe 1.25"...I don't recall at the moment) to help with horizontal forces. I used crimping ferrules on the other end and tried out the U-Clamps on the other. Crimping looked the cleanest and was cheaper so if you can borrow a crimping tool that's the way to go. Tried to keep this part as simple as possible...I often want to get super creative and end up making things more complicated that they need to be.
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3) Combined my (4) cables to (1) cable using carabineer.

4) Attached winch. This hardware determined how far my cable would be from the wall, so this was my reference point for that axis
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Using a laser level/plum bob was key in making sure everything lined up exactly where I wanted it to. It also helped me determine where I needed to add blocking behind the drywall too

During the process I thought it would have been cool to grab a PLC controller, electric motor, buttons, sensors, and write some logic but then I remembered what this was for...better just keep it simple and move onto next project haha
 
Wow! Thanks for putting that together.

That’s some serious hardware. You could probably lay a body or two on that table and winch it up no problem.
 
Yeah, that’s probably a pretty good guess. I could probably hold a little more than double the weight…possibly a smidgens more
 

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