DrStrange
4 of a Kind
I have a chip problem - way too many chips are stored on the floor. (Don't even suggest selling some of them - what kind of guy do you think I am ! ? ) So I am looking for solutions.
Early this month I was reading a thread about Tony Chan's poker tables while also searching for antique government flat file cabinets. It struck me that a custom table might be built where the pedestal is also a storage area for chips. We traded notes for a while and Tony came up with this:
" I've made up a draft of a poker table with a base that has poker chip storage as per our discussions over at PCF. The legs I've mocked up are 20" wide by 71.5" long and 26" tall. Each drawer is 18"x21.5" which fits 12 chip trays. The base is able to hold 12 drawers which is a total of 14,400 chips. The row at the very top won't be usable since there isn't enough space between the underside of the poker table and the top of the drawer to stick your hand into, so it will have dummy faces to simulate more drawers.
The base does look a little fat. Normally the base for a table is about 20-26" wide, however it normally narrows in the middle and has just a large footprint for balance. In the first draft the entire base is 20" wide all the way to the underside of the poker table which I think may be in the way of players' legs. "
OK! this could work. 14,400 chips off the floor would be an excellent start. 20 inches wide doesn't seem too much, though it leaves only ~14 inches on each side for the player's legs which is not so much.
This might be a problem, so a test was in order. I built a slap-dash cardboard mock up that would fit under my current table and held a game.
I told my players why the boxes were there and ask them for their impressions.
When they first sat down, the group consensus was "no big deal" and "we can live with this". That sounded promising. Let's shuffle up and deal!
By the end of the first hour a couple of players are suggesting a raised unit leaving a few inches of space for their feet.
Three hours in I had one player beg me to take the boxes out because her legs were aching and her back hurt. So out with the boxes ending the test.
I decided that the pedestal was going to end up a lot like an airline seat. At the start of the day it isn't so restrictive but over time the cramped space was going to prove a slow-burn problem that would grow to a big deal at the end of the session.
Thoughts would be appreciated but quell any notion of selling chips.
Drat! I had such hopes -=- DrStrange
PS the chips in the background are Empress. Better pictures of this scene are posted elsewhere.
Early this month I was reading a thread about Tony Chan's poker tables while also searching for antique government flat file cabinets. It struck me that a custom table might be built where the pedestal is also a storage area for chips. We traded notes for a while and Tony came up with this:
" I've made up a draft of a poker table with a base that has poker chip storage as per our discussions over at PCF. The legs I've mocked up are 20" wide by 71.5" long and 26" tall. Each drawer is 18"x21.5" which fits 12 chip trays. The base is able to hold 12 drawers which is a total of 14,400 chips. The row at the very top won't be usable since there isn't enough space between the underside of the poker table and the top of the drawer to stick your hand into, so it will have dummy faces to simulate more drawers.
The base does look a little fat. Normally the base for a table is about 20-26" wide, however it normally narrows in the middle and has just a large footprint for balance. In the first draft the entire base is 20" wide all the way to the underside of the poker table which I think may be in the way of players' legs. "
OK! this could work. 14,400 chips off the floor would be an excellent start. 20 inches wide doesn't seem too much, though it leaves only ~14 inches on each side for the player's legs which is not so much.
This might be a problem, so a test was in order. I built a slap-dash cardboard mock up that would fit under my current table and held a game.
I told my players why the boxes were there and ask them for their impressions.
When they first sat down, the group consensus was "no big deal" and "we can live with this". That sounded promising. Let's shuffle up and deal!
By the end of the first hour a couple of players are suggesting a raised unit leaving a few inches of space for their feet.
Three hours in I had one player beg me to take the boxes out because her legs were aching and her back hurt. So out with the boxes ending the test.
I decided that the pedestal was going to end up a lot like an airline seat. At the start of the day it isn't so restrictive but over time the cramped space was going to prove a slow-burn problem that would grow to a big deal at the end of the session.
Thoughts would be appreciated but quell any notion of selling chips.
Drat! I had such hopes -=- DrStrange
PS the chips in the background are Empress. Better pictures of this scene are posted elsewhere.
