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Suber’s recent post on how to pick a poker table got me thinking about the finer side of poker. When you think about it, you could have a lot of fun selecting nice poker chips and ornate poker tables. Rather than going for cheap plastic all the time, why not go for high aesthetic taste?

Well, to be honest, it was only a day later that I was approached by the company Card Room Supply to do a review of their site. This was a no brainer. My mind has been on Poker accessories for a couple days, so I bit at the opportunity.

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My wife subscribes to Kiplingers. In one of the issues there is an article about poker tables, specifically about questions one should ask when considering purchasing one.

I don’t have a poker table. Nor do I really care about poker tables, since I only play online and know no one around me who plays poker in cash games. For those of you avid poker players who have disposable income from working in high finance or porno or even low-level market research (you know who I’m talking about), buying a poker table may be a genuine option. So I thought it would be worth doing what Wikipedia sometimes does and summarize (lift?) other people’s information, in this case the Kiplinger article by Lisa Gerstner entitled 5 questions to ask about POKER TABLES.

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You’re playing in an online game of Texas Hold’em. You’ve been dealt Jh-Th. What do you do? Do you limp in? Do you raise? Do you fold? To figure out what to do you must consider your position at the table. You must also know the odds your hand could improve into something, like a flush or a straight or something else. The problem is that you need to make your decision quickly, and you’re no Stuey Ungar, and even if you have a relatively good calculating mind, it may be tired and losing focus.

Solution to problem: Pokerbility.

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