merkong
Full House
So, I decided to repurpose a bunch of materials and give The Red Light Game, Zack’s college game north of Chicago something new to consider. As a matter of fact his speed cloth and vinyl just arrived. I did save around $150 using carpet padding on the rail and two layers of underlay for the arena. I did this with my two octagons and any difference was hardly negligible. I’m going with slide in drink holders but might buy jumbos and convert them to slide ins. He’ll have an underrail LED.
College Kids… Am I right?
We have liftoff.
That rail has and will see better days.
I see fun times ahead.
The cloth and vinyl literally just arrived.
Ironically enough, today was also the day I began the concurrent build, an ellipse that will join Big Red at The Godfather Club. Big Red is an awesome table and its construction was a concerted effort. My main role was financier and general contractor. The ellipse will be a solo build and I aim that it meets the same standard of excellence that Big Red possesses. It may even be a better table because we learned much building Big Red and hey, it’s an ellipse.
Following a couple of ellipse threads I learned what a trammel was and how to use it to draw this geometric wonder. One thing I would do differently already is dig out your file and round off the nails on the trammel. Secondly, draw one quadrant and use the scrap as a template for the other three “corners.” Remember this kids when you do a build; if you can’t see it there’s latitude. Don’t let perfect get in the way of damn good.
The only confounding issue is that I like 10 seat tables. This is peculiar because I prefer 6-8 handed play. In any event. The ellipse has been done with 10 seats and I’m sure it’s still a little snug but at The Godfather Club I use repurposed high back leather office chairs. Additionally, my game runs with a dedicated dealer (having dealt 10,000 hands since we began one year ago today I’m good) and as such it’s essential that I sit central and my banker sits central and opposite me. All of the 10 seat ellipses I’ve seen have smaller chairs and one player on each end. In any event I’ll do some beta testing before I decide what’s feasible. (Pssst, I was wild about a “full table” when I brought my game back but now… See above.)
So in any event, here are the first ever images of “The Geodome” ( the table naming committee, which I chair, has not met in a while so we’ll see what happens)
I’ll be posting progress on both of these tables and anything I conquer or run into as the next several days go by. I want the ellipse ready for an early November MTT. I’m a cash guy but I’ve been swayed to run at least a quarterly MTT in an attempt to have an amazing long session of tourney and cash action and possibly add to the invite rolls.
Good luck, run good and don’t take those beats too badly.
Ken/merkong/Godfather
Big Red. And yes, that room will hold two tables.
“If I had a trammel, I’d trammel in the morning.”
Draw your lines kids.
Start cutting.
Ready for a little cleanup. More plywood coming in tomorrow. It literally could be screwed together and laying in wait while I take a breather by bedtime day 2.
Ladies and gentlemen, The Geodome.
Good luck everyone.
College Kids… Am I right?
We have liftoff.
That rail has and will see better days.
I see fun times ahead.
The cloth and vinyl literally just arrived.
Ironically enough, today was also the day I began the concurrent build, an ellipse that will join Big Red at The Godfather Club. Big Red is an awesome table and its construction was a concerted effort. My main role was financier and general contractor. The ellipse will be a solo build and I aim that it meets the same standard of excellence that Big Red possesses. It may even be a better table because we learned much building Big Red and hey, it’s an ellipse.
Following a couple of ellipse threads I learned what a trammel was and how to use it to draw this geometric wonder. One thing I would do differently already is dig out your file and round off the nails on the trammel. Secondly, draw one quadrant and use the scrap as a template for the other three “corners.” Remember this kids when you do a build; if you can’t see it there’s latitude. Don’t let perfect get in the way of damn good.
The only confounding issue is that I like 10 seat tables. This is peculiar because I prefer 6-8 handed play. In any event. The ellipse has been done with 10 seats and I’m sure it’s still a little snug but at The Godfather Club I use repurposed high back leather office chairs. Additionally, my game runs with a dedicated dealer (having dealt 10,000 hands since we began one year ago today I’m good) and as such it’s essential that I sit central and my banker sits central and opposite me. All of the 10 seat ellipses I’ve seen have smaller chairs and one player on each end. In any event I’ll do some beta testing before I decide what’s feasible. (Pssst, I was wild about a “full table” when I brought my game back but now… See above.)
So in any event, here are the first ever images of “The Geodome” ( the table naming committee, which I chair, has not met in a while so we’ll see what happens)
I’ll be posting progress on both of these tables and anything I conquer or run into as the next several days go by. I want the ellipse ready for an early November MTT. I’m a cash guy but I’ve been swayed to run at least a quarterly MTT in an attempt to have an amazing long session of tourney and cash action and possibly add to the invite rolls.
Good luck, run good and don’t take those beats too badly.
Ken/merkong/Godfather
Big Red. And yes, that room will hold two tables.
“If I had a trammel, I’d trammel in the morning.”
Draw your lines kids.
Start cutting.
Ready for a little cleanup. More plywood coming in tomorrow. It literally could be screwed together and laying in wait while I take a breather by bedtime day 2.
Ladies and gentlemen, The Geodome.
Good luck everyone.
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Congrats !
