Poker needs almost no equipment, which is one of the best things about it. This is the short list that actually improves a home game, and the two books worth the shelf space.
A word on what this page is not: we have not tested these against competitors, we do not score them, and none of it will make you a better player. The trainer does that, and it is free. This page exists because the site costs money to run and some of you are going to buy chips anyway.
Five hundred chips is the point at which a home game stops feeling like a card game and starts feeling like poker. Weighted composite, not clay: the people who tell you that matters are the same people you want at your table.
Plastic cards outlive paper by roughly a hundred sessions and never develop the soft corner that quietly marks a deck. If you host, this is the one upgrade nobody regrets.
Rolls out over a kitchen table and turns it into a felt. Cards slide, chips stack, and it goes back in a bag when the game ends, which is the actual constraint in most homes.
Removes the slowest and most argued-about job at a home game. Worth it purely for the hands per hour, which is the only variable in a home game you can actually control.
Eight dollars to end every argument about whose turn it is to deal. Position is the most valuable thing in poker; it helps if everyone agrees where it is.
Predates solvers by decades and is still the clearest explanation of why a decision is right rather than which decision is right. The Fundamental Theorem in chapter three is the idea this whole site is built on.
Genuinely a maths book with poker in it, and it will hurt. But if you want to know where numbers like the ones this trainer prints actually come from, this is the source rather than a summary of it.
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