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Welcome to Zathras’ Poker site!
The primary reason I put this site up is to show off a few poker tables we
built. I’ve also started using this to site to provide info about our home
poker tourneys. New Table Oct 2005 In keeping with my
military phonetic lingo, I have constructed table “Delta”. This is
my first table actually built to order for a paying customer, Jason C. It is
a non-racetrack style, and is a beautiful purple velveteen surface with a …
well, a green rail. J It actually looks much better than I thought it would, when I saw the
colors. This one is by far my best table- I used my new template to cut the
wood and it came out near perfect. It will see its first action very soon! The first tables While we did take a few
pictures of various stages of the construction, I’m not going to put a
detailed construction manual on here. There are many very well done poker
table sites, with step by step instructions on how to build tables. I got
many of my ideas from sites such as Scott Keen, Pcpotato, and Mark Junell. I
highly recommend checking them out. I built my first table in
June 2004. It was an 8’ oval 40” wide made out of ¾” MDF mounted on a banquet
table. It had ¼” headliner covered by velveteen. It was pretty nice, but then
I saw some really fancy ones online with features such as padded rails and
cupholders. (Oh, and btw, don’t use MDF for a poker table base- use hardwood
plywood.) So in the fall I offered my table for sale to one of my poker
buddies, with thoughts of building a new one. In January I started
planning to build my new table. Did I say table? Make that tables. Since most
of our poker nights have more than 10 people, I decided I ought to have two. And
hey, if you need two tables, you might as well build them both at once,
right? Fast forward to March, and
I’ve pretty much got most of my stuff ordered other than the materials I’m
buying locally. Then I learned my son was going to be coming home for a week
of leave in early April, and I asked if he’d be interested in helping build
my two poker tables. Did I say two? Make that three. Since he was going to
put all that labor in, I thought it only fair that we build one for him at
the same time. So, Sunday April 3rd, his
2nd day in town, we head off to Hancock’s to pick up the foam and vinyl. Then
over to Lowes to get the plywood and a few other items. Five days and about
30 hours of hard labor later, we have 3 beautiful deluxe tables. During the construction,
we had marked the pieces for each table with an A, B, or C so that we knew
which table each piece went with. And soon, we got to referring to them with
the military phonetic terms Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie. We decided Alpha and
Charlie would be mine, and Bravo would be his. During each phase of
construction, we worked on them in order, A- B- C. In theory then I would get
the ‘guinea pig’ table, Alpha, as well as the 3rd table, Charlie, which
should have all the kinks worked out. In reality, all the tables came out
pretty much the same, quality-wise.
Table “Alpha”
Table “Bravo”
Table “Charlie” Table “Delta” |
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