Top Pair Podcast 346: Poker Chips, Ahoy!
Bruce Briggs and Robbie Strazynski dive deep into all the different kinds of poker chips you can use when hosting a home game, and recap their last home game sessions of 2019.
George Chao of BBO Poker Tables has a great Table Talk segment on giving your home game poker table all sorts of technological upgrades, and Ben Ludlow shares a One Outer take on poker’s current hot topic: tournament re-entry!
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Show Time Stamps
| 00:29 | Synopsis |
| 1:17–20:53 | How Ya Runnin? |
| 1:34 | Bruce: Attended one home game and doubled the buy-in! |
| 3:36 | Procedural question re: continuing to split a pot in a hi/lo game once it’s guaranteed that there won’t be a low. |
| 13:20 | Robbie reminisces about spending New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas as a young teenager. |
| 17:00 | New Year’s Resolution: Play more poker and win more money! |
| 17:43 | Robbie: Attended one home game and ran poorly to end off the year. Hoping to turn things back around in 2020. |
| 19:40 | Paying a home poker game house call at the Doc’s house. |
| 23:03-41:54 | Cards in the Air |
| 23:50 | Diving deep into a great article by Ashley Adams about the right poker chips with which to host a home game. |
| 28:00 | Shout out to chartreuse poker chips. |
| 29:30 | Shout out to our one listener named “Guido.” |
| 32:20 | Shout out to Adam Savage, of Mythbusters fame, who recreated an exact replica of Rounders poker chips. |
| 34:00 | Talking about poker chips from the old Dunes hotel. Imploded hotels used to encase the chips in concrete and dump them in Lake Mead! |
| 38:49 | Using plastic chip racks in a home poker game… “they’re cursed!” |
| 41:55-46:55 | Table Talk with George Chao of BBO Poker Tables |
| 47:00 | Giving your home game poker table a tech upgrade: built-in USB ports for phone charging, integrated automatic shufflers, and integrated LED lighting to set the right mood. |
| 50:52 | Ben Ludlow’s One Outer: Reflecting on the tournament re-entry debate currently raging. Any tournament can be a $50K if you fire hard enough! |
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