Since a few years, the poker boom is over us – in case you hadn’t noticed. Everyone plays poker; online poker and/or live poker and mostly both, although rarely at the same time. Before the boom you may have sat in a game with some colleagues, playing with nickels on any rugged table. There’s something you need to realize: this is not cool anymore.

More and more now, live poker is played using high quality props that enhance the experience quite a bit. One piece of poker supplies that has become almost mandatory is nicely colored poker chips. They make the betting much more fun and also lend themselves perfectly to more or less advanced chip tricks. If you want to lay a really top-notch home game, get them customized, brandishing your initials or some other symbol that represent your fine nature.

The pleasure of playing Texas Holdem with great chips is not maximized if you must splash them over a hard kitchen table. It’s not the right sound. As a natural next step, you should look at some kind of poker table. They come in all flavors, from heavy, custom built poker tables in genuine wood to pliable table-tops or the simple albeit very useful poker cloth that you roll up and bring along to your friends’ place.

Except for fresh cards, dealer buttons and cool card protectors, there’s one more thing within poker supplies you really need to consider if you want to live the poker boom properly: poker wear. What would it be like, sitting there in your friendly poker games with all these nice props, splashing customized 15 gram poker chips on a thick and dampening green felt, wearing your old washed out t-shirt? It’s not what they call ‘living right’, is it?