Most Useful Poker "Accessories", Least Useful? (1 Viewer)

[DeeVee8]

Those of you that have had a baby know there's some baby accessories that are super helpful, and others that sound cool but are really never used.

So beyond chips, racks, tables, cards - what are the top 3 useful other items, and bottom 3 in your opinion? I'll start.

Useful:
- Tall starting stack tubes for MTTs
- Seating chips for MTTs that also serve as rebuy chips or bounty chips
- Circus game cards that explain the basics of the game

Not useful:
- Various lammers/jetons like all in chips, missed blinds, etc. - have a place in a casino, in a home game are just clutter and one more thing
- Small dealer buttons (no one can see them!)
- Plaques - seem cool in concept, but if used in tourneys makes color ups more of a pain in the ass and they don't store well

What say you?

I dig plaques, but only on big occasions. We use them for our high end tourneys, and only for coloring up later in the tournament. Our players dig them. They do store like crap though.

I made seating chips that have "all-in" on the other side. Players use them to find their seat, then keep them for all-in purposes. Oh, and I put them on the top of the stack as I place them inside the starting stack tube. Two birds, one stone. Three birds? Not sure.

 

[brewdawg]

Unfortunately, casting over wifi can be a bit of a nightmare, as it is susceptible to wifi drops or interference, If either the laptop or Chrome cast disconnects/reconnects, the cast could be interrupted. I've had that with VNC as well. Only cure is I've found is to use a wired network connection for the laptop and Chromecasts (Google offers power adapters with an ethernet port).

Agreed. If it was my setup I would handle it a bit differently. But I am trying to help our host get it setup and configured so that it can be easily run and seen in both rooms.

 

[Machine]

@jazzV3 wtf is a 1/2 harry? Is this a kill?

 

[jazzV3]

@jazzV3 wtf is a 1/2 harry? Is this a kill?

Named after a guest player - obviously, Harry. He brought the game, we made the button.

Full Harry: Loser(s) matches full pot - winner takes pot plus pot match
Half Harry: Loser(s) match half pot - winner takes pot plus half pot match

It's a painful accessory for the loser. Primarily used when playing Dealer's Choice games.
Most second best hands just fold before showdown, but there's always that guy who needs to keep 'em honest.

 

[Dugthefish]

Most useful: cordless vaccum/dustbuster

Least useful: dealer buttons

 

[WedgeRock]

The fact that this hasn't even come out of the blister pack...

 

[Irish]

The fact that this hasn't even come out of the blister pack...

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haha, I won a similar button from the HPT forum giveaway years ago (ultimate dealer button maybe?). The only time it gets used is when we're on vacation or camping for quick family tourneys. And even then we sometimes just use the timer on one of our phones.

Although it may be useful for one of @Ben8257 's super duper speed tourneys at 3am.....

 

[upNdown]

Named after a guest player - obviously, Harry. He brought the game, we made the button.

Full Harry: Loser(s) matches full pot - winner takes pot plus pot match
Half Harry: Loser(s) match half pot - winner takes pot plus half pot match

It's a painful accessory for the loser. Primarily used when playing Dealer's Choice games.
Most second best hands just fold before showdown, but there's always that guy who needs to keep 'em honest.

Jesus, that’s insane. I’ve never heard of that. Do other people do this?

 

[MrCatPants]

The fact that this hasn't even come out of the blister pack...

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Poker gifts for poker people from non poker people for $200, please.

 

[MrCatPants]

Jesus, that’s insane. I’ve never heard of that. Do other people do this?

And how does someone get the Harry? Does the winner of the Harry pot now have the Harry?

 

[jazzV3]

And how does someone get the Harry? Does the winner of the Harry pot now have the Harry?

It's the dealer's choice whether to throw out the Harry button in the game they are selecting (when playing Dealer's Choice games).
One of the guys (not Harry) seems to LOVE to call painful options - like Harry, red 7 kills game twice - dealt a 5, pay $5.00 - dealt a 10, pay $10, all pot builders.
We'll mix in Badugi, 7/27, stud games (Murder, High/Lo), etc. along with rounds of Hold'em.

 

[Ben8257]

haha, I won a similar button from the HPT forum giveaway years ago (ultimate dealer button maybe?). The only time it gets used is when we're on vacation or camping for quick family tourneys. And even then we sometimes just use the timer on one of our phones.

Although it may be useful for one of @Ben8257 's super duper speed tourneys at 3am.....

You know I am still all about the Old School hour glasses! Lol one of those things I love but 99.9% of members would say are completely useless at the table! Lol

 

[Poker Zombie]

It's the dealer's choice whether to throw out the Harry button in the game they are selecting (when playing Dealer's Choice games).
One of the guys (not Harry) seems to LOVE to call painful options - like Harry, red 7 kills game twice - dealt a 5, pay $5.00 - dealt a 10, pay $10, all pot builders.
We'll mix in Badugi, 7/27, stud games (Murder, High/Lo), etc. along with rounds of Hold'em.

Which of these guys is Harry?

 

[jazzV3]

Which of these guys is Harry?
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How did you know...lol
He's the guy behind the desk, a little heavier, a bit more hair, and a bit more money.

 

[RadicusScout]

You know I am still all about the Old School hour glasses! Lol one of those things I love but 99.9% of members would say are completely useless at the table! Lol
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Hourglass GB Interest Check in 3...

 

[Poker Zombie]

Before @Ben8257 's post, I didn't even know I had an interest in hourglasses.

Now Mrs Zombie is all "Why does Amazon keep showing hourglasses?"

 

[RadicusScout]

Before @Ben8257 's post, I didn't even know I had an interest in hourglasses.

Now Mrs Zombie is all "Why does Amazon keep showing hourglasses?"

Now we both know Amazon won't be able to fulfill our exact hourglass needs; shape, size, sound, specific refraction of light, color of grain, etc.

Who ever runs this amazing (and highly successful!) GB *cough* @Ben8257 *cough* will, of course, account for all of this.

 

[BPTDirector]

My vote for least useful are all in chips and time chips. Most useful are blinds timer, seating chips, cut cards, and starting chip stack tubes. Anything to provide organization at the start of a large MTT tournament.

 

[Himewad]

All In chips and bounty chips are the only accessory chips that have been accepted by my group. They scoffed at my reload and show'em chips, so I got rid of them.

My tournament plaques were a big hit. My players love it when those come out.

 

[Machine]

Did anyone say table brush yet? I'm not sure about 'most' useful, I need one, whats the best one?

 

[Ben8257]

All In chips and bounty chips are the only accessory chips that have been accepted by my group. They scoffed at my reload and show'em chips, so I got rid of them.

I only find reload to be useful in two ways... if not running a program and only allow 1 rebuy per person. Surrender reload whilst rebuying, most keep track of rebuys, really pointless, but in a large mutli table game it can be helpful.

Also if you want to run a slightly higher stakes game where you basically get a full starting stack but also if you get KOed before the second break you use you "reload" for another SS, but if you manage to keep your RL until that second break you get a full SS (value but with big chips) as an add on that you pre purchased basically.

Say your normal stakes are $60... talk them into a reload/add on game for $90 each, guaranteed money in the pot and you don't have to rely on rebuys to build it.

Otherwise reload chips are pretty useless, and never found a group yet that actually like "show em" chips. Usually just starts a confrontation, especially if one player is bullying the table and everyone are using their chips on that person. Why are another element of aggravation to the game. Play straight up, think you got bluffed, grow a pair and call next time!

 

[Himewad]

Did anyone say table brush yet? I'm not sure about 'most' useful, I need one, whats the best one?

I use my pool table brush. Does the trick.

 

[Easylife]

All In chips and bounty chips are the only accessory chips that have been accepted by my group. They scoffed at my reload and show'em chips, so I got rid of them.

For the love of God at least say you use dealer buttons!

 

[Highli99]

For the love of God at least say you use dealer buttons!

Those are only for decoration

 

[Himewad]

For the love of God at least say you use dealer buttons!

I don't consider dealer buttons an accessory "chip"

Those are only for decoration

 

[bucklesbets]

I think plaques shine as value holders in limit games. That’s where I intend to use mine.

Most useless things are the crappy aluminum cases that chips used to come in.

Another favorite accessory is my racker stackers. Those things are fun!

Racker stackers?

 

[Himewad]

Racker stackers?

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/the-racker-stacker-a-3d3p-exclusive.52784/

 

[bucklesbets]

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/the-racker-stacker-a-3d3p-exclusive.52784/

Love it. Thanks!

 

[upNdown]

Racker stackers?

they are one of the geekier things about PCF.

For the love of God at least say you use dealer buttons!

I’ve never used one for a self-dealt game, unless/until somebody decides to do all the dealing, (or even just the dealing for one guy with bad hands.)

 

[Easylife]

I don't consider dealer buttons an accessory "chip"


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But you could probably host a playable game using only dealer buttons as chips!