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Hi folks! I've been a consumer of games over the past decade or so and have decided, since I now have the means, that it is time for me to start pitching in and hosting. I'm new to the forum and I have to say there is a lot of very good information here. Kudos to those who have taken the time to prepare all of the detailed summaries as I know those take a lot of time and effort to put together. Just wanted to say that I have found them easy to navigate and extremely helpful.
 
Welcome from Mountain View!
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I am going to fill you in on a little secret here. I know this is supposed to be a site for poker chips, but in all reality the chips you get and use are probably the least relevant thing you can buy to help get your home game going. Great chips are cool, but a good table is more helpful. So are plastic cards. A big screen TV helps, especially during football season. And I have a group of guys who show up religiously to pay homage to the hot dog roller. Get those things first. Then spend money on big time chips.
 
I am going to fill you in on a little secret here. I know this is supposed to be a site for poker chips, but in all reality the chips you get and use are probably the least relevant thing you can buy to help get your home game going. Great chips are cool, but a good table is more helpful. So are plastic cards. A big screen TV helps, especially during football season. And I have a group of guys who show up religiously to pay homage to the hot dog roller. Get those things first. Then spend money on big time chips.
Don’t tell me that. I already spent all my money on hard-to-find Fracs!!!
 
I am going to fill you in on a little secret here. I know this is supposed to be a site for poker chips, but in all reality the chips you get and use are probably the least relevant thing you can buy to help get your home game going. Great chips are cool, but a good table is more helpful. So are plastic cards. A big screen TV helps, especially during football season. And I have a group of guys who show up religiously to pay homage to the hot dog roller. Get those things first. Then spend money on big time chips.
Well said… I’ll add some comfortable chairs to that list!
 
I am going to fill you in on a little secret here. I know this is supposed to be a site for poker chips, but in all reality the chips you get and use are probably the least relevant thing you can buy to help get your home game going. Great chips are cool, but a good table is more helpful. So are plastic cards. A big screen TV helps, especially during football season. And I have a group of guys who show up religiously to pay homage to the hot dog roller. Get those things first. Then spend money on big time chips.
I’m also new here, and simply put all the other things combined are cheaper than the chips that are displayed here ! If you’re like me you’ll love looking though.
 
I’m also new here, and simply put all the other things combined are cheaper than the chips that are displayed here ! If you’re like me you’ll love looking though.
There are tons of ways to save money getting a poker room together. I have friends that will keep working as long as there is cold beer on hand so I had them build the table. The TV came from a pawn shop. The casino near me replaced all their chairs during the pandemic and the contractor they use put the old ones on Craigslist for dirt cheap. Add ceramics from BRPRO and you can get from empty room to poker room for under $1000.
 
I am going to fill you in on a little secret here. I know this is supposed to be a site for poker chips, but in all reality the chips you get and use are probably the least relevant thing you can buy to help get your home game going. Great chips are cool, but a good table is more helpful. So are plastic cards. A big screen TV helps, especially during football season. And I have a group of guys who show up religiously to pay homage to the hot dog roller. Get those things first. Then spend money on big time chips.
This is absolutely correct! You don't need expensive chips to have a great homegame. Get a decent table, chairs, plastic cards, and most importantly, a game that is ran well. Whether it be a cash game or tournaments. If you have a consistently well structured game, you will have people that return because of that. Our group is a perfect example of this. We play small stake tournaments and sometimes cash games. We don't have expensive chips. We just try to keep things well ran and focus on the smaller things we can do to make our game feel bigger than it is. A cool table topper on a cheap Barrington table goes a long way.

After you have all the other stuff then you can spend money on the chips if. You still want them. Most of your players won't know the difference between real clay and plastic chips anyways.
 
...pretty sure this is @triton's thread & "has the means now." I say go get a Chanman & a set of NAGB chips! JK. Above is good advice but you do you!
 
Thanks and I appreciate all of the feedback. By "means" I am referring to space and spousal permission, which as many of you likely know will involve some compromises. And I definitely will be looking into hot dog rollers -- that's something I wasn't expecting to hear about and it sounds like a great idea!
 
Welcome to PCF ! Hosting is really cool so Enjoy !
 
For $100 or so a hot dog roller is definitely worth the cost to have tasty inexpensive food always available. Hard to feed a table of people for $10, but a roller can!
 
And a hot dog roller, you can set it and forget it. I set mine to 250, load it, and leave it. It "magically" empties itself once my players have been around for a while. Too easy
 
Welcome

Best advice would be a set of rules. this does 2 things
1 stops arguments and
2 stops the flood of "How would you rule this?" threads on the site.
 
The number 1 thing you need are farm animals aka donkeys aka action players. If you have a couple of those, people will sit on the floor and play with cheerios for chips.
 

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