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Fugly Poker Table Thread (34 Viewers)

EastCoastCali said:
I didn't even see that, we have the green nugget haha. Kiddos basically use it for a padding on the floor to jump off the couch like they're in the WWF. Those suckers are expensive for what they are!
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Green here as well.

Though we bought the Sam’s Club knockoff and not the name brand. Still expensive for cloth-covered foam, but they’ve definitely gotten our money’s worth out of it.
 
Don’t know what I hate the most about this table. I guess it’s the blueprint for something that is screen printed on the felt. Is that a list of people who’ve spilled stuff on the table on the dealers left?
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TheYeti said:
One of my regulars commissioned a Star Wars themed poker table, apparently sight-unseen. This is his first ever poker table. He's played on my table for a few years and knows that I've been hosting for 20+ years yet didn't mention anything until a few days before his new table was to be delivered. I mean, all he had to do was ask for a little advice.

Here is his new epoxy topped table we played on last Saturday...it was a complete failure. Obviously not built by anyone who ever played poker. Notice the slips of paper he was using so that the players could actually lift their cards off of the surface, without the paper under the cards it was almost impossible. There's a superfluous chip tray (self-dealt game) and the rail is a bit janky too.

He loves it though....at least that's what he said. He said he could get the guy to "fix" it by maybe creating a felt racetrack so you could at least pick up your hole cards. I told him that the playing surface needs to be felt, but he was having none of that. I'm hoping he will come to his senses, sell this monstrosity and buy a proper table.

I told him straight-up that I will never play on that table again.


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O...M...G.

So, he got the guy to "fix" his table by putting down a felt "racetrack". I can't...I just can't. :rolleyes:

 
TheYeti said:
O...M...G.

So, he got the guy to "fix" his table by putting down a felt "racetrack". I can't...I just can't. :rolleyes:

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He's painted himself into a corner with the epoxy surface so the felt he's added probably makes it a slightly better playing experience taking it from a 1/10 to a 2/10 at best. Short of admitting defeat and covering the whole surface I'm not sure what else would help.
 
Poker Zombie said:
Every epoxy table is a fail for poker players, but an extreme win for the person that wants a hobby encased in an extremely heavy table.

Epoxy should come with a warning label "Not for use on card tables".
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It really is a shame because aside from the impracticality of it, it actually looks like a really cool top.
 
I was hoping I could jump in on this thread. Fingers crossed that this beer cap beauty hasn't already been shared.
 
Another terrible Epoxy table. No beer caps thank God. The description says: chips and table covered in Epoxy "a few chips here and there". What??
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Mushmanchuman said:
Another terrible Epoxy table. No beer caps thank God. The description says: chips and table covered in Epoxy "a few chips here and there". What??View attachment 1349031View attachment 1349032
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Might get flamed for this, but honestly, that is kinda cool. Not "I'd like to own it" cool, but definitely "interesting table you have there" cool. And yes, I know the hard surface will make it hard to look at cards, so yeah, it's impractical. Although, with no rail, you could just slide them to the edge. If they don't fly off the table every deal, that is. Anyway, a lot of skill certainly went in to building it, and it is aesthetically interesting to look at.
 
TX_Golf_N_Poker said:
Might get flamed for this, but honestly, that is kinda cool. Not "I'd like to own it" cool, but definitely "interesting table you have there" cool. And yes, I know the hard surface will make it hard to look at cards, so yeah, it's impractical. Although, with no rail, you could just slide them to the edge. If they don't fly off the table every deal, that is. Anyway, a lot of skill certainly went in to building it, and it is aesthetically interesting to look at.
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There are quite a few tables in this thread that took a great amount of "skill" to produce. Cuts, measures, color palette, and electrical work don't come naturally to everyone - and that's before you add the creative mind that thought "this would be cool".

But it winds up in here because, despite the immense skill and creativity, it would be an absolute nightmare to spend the evening looking down at it or playing on it.

Now if these epoxy guys just built bar-tops, wall art, or casino flooring - you know things you don't spend more than 15 seconds looking at, they might be able to move their masterpieces.

Now I need to Google "fugly bar-top"...
 
Poker Zombie said:
There are quite a few tables in this thread that took a great amount of "skill" to produce. Cuts, measures, color palette, and electrical work don't come naturally to everyone - and that's before you add the creative mind that thought "this would be cool".

But it winds up in here because, despite the immense skill and creativity, it would be an absolute nightmare to spend the evening looking down at it or playing on it.

Now if these epoxy guys just built bar-tops, wall art, or casino flooring - you know things you don't spend more than 15 seconds looking at, they might be able to move their masterpieces.

Now I need to Google "fugly bar-top"...
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I guess my point is that I differentiate between "fugly" and "impractical." Like the Star Wars table from a few weeks ago. That thing was stunning, but no, I don't want to play cards on it. I also remember my way back, pre-PCF days when I played many a poker game on a kitchen table. Sometimes bare, or with, at most, a thin tablecloth on it. Did you have to be careful dealing? yep. Did you have to slide your cards to the edge to pick them up or peek at them? probably. Was it loud when you tossed chips or coins into the pot? Sure was. But was I playing poker with friends and having fun? Absolutely! Back then, I would have thought this table was HIGH - END!!! LOL! I guess life is simpler when you don't know what you don't know.
 
TX_Golf_N_Poker said:
I guess my point is that I differentiate between "fugly" and "impractical." Like the Star Wars table from a few weeks ago. That thing was stunning, but no, I don't want to play cards on it. I also remember my way back, pre-PCF days when I played many a poker game on a kitchen table. Sometimes bare, or with, at most, a thin tablecloth on it. Did you have to be careful dealing? yep. Did you have to slide your cards to the edge to pick them up or peek at them? probably. Was it loud when you tossed chips or coins into the pot? Sure was. But was I playing poker with friends and having fun? Absolutely! Back then, I would have thought this table was HIGH - END!!! LOL! I guess life is simpler when you don't know what you don't know.
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David, you should have put a blanket under that tablecloth.

Been there, done that. But yeah, Knowledge is a circle. Everything you know is inside the circle, everything you don't know is outside the circle. What you realize you don't know is the line making the circle. The more you know, the bigger the circle gets, thus making the line of stuff you don't know even greater.

These table builders have very small circles. PCFers have much greater circles (except @Josh Kifer )
 

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