Huge fan. nice setup

This thread is pure win

What brand/model is that? My mini fridge is a little small (only holds about 2 cases), and I may be looking soon.

http://www.summitappliance.com/detail/scr1

You can get it for less than they list it there for, obviously.

Wandering my local appliance stores (while looking for grills and washing machines -- long story), I looked at a lot of glass-front fridges. I was looking for something deep enough to hold a Cornelius keg from my brewing setup, and some of those made for wine had wider bottoms, not hogged by the compressor.

Might want to look in the wine chiller world...

moki: Thanks for the info. Looks like seven bottles/cans wide. Is it three or four deep? Just trying to gauge internal dimensions since if I took the plunge, I'd want it to double as aging space for my homebrew kegs.

Most of the wine chillers I see locally aren't much bigger than my Sanyo mini fridge. The flexibility of the shelving on that Summit is pretty tempting as well. It almost looks like I could have three or four Corneys aging and still hold two cases of bottles.

Summit sells pretty much everything in any size you want, including fridges that are designed to hold beer kegs. They make mostly commercial-grade stuff.

Browse around their web site, you can even search by dimensions. And you can find their beer dispensers:

http://www.summitappliance.com/category/26

I think you misunderstand. I'm not looking for a kegerator. I have a dual-tap kegerator already. I'm more looking for something that can have a dual-purpose. Mostly for bottles and cans, but with the flexibility to store Cornelius kegs (5 gallon soda kegs that Pepsi used to use, very common in the homebrewing world) temporarily without totally losing other space. I have a modified chest freezer that I use for fermentation and aging, but can't use it for both simultaneously since the temps aren't always compatible.
The issue is that their dimensions are external, and the internal dimensions are what concern me. I can estimate that based on the width and depth of what's being stored in yours. I just can't exactly tell how many cans/bottles deep from the picture.

I have them stacked 4 deep... they can go 5-6 deep though, depending on how far back you want to do it.

Agreed . Is that game raked? I can't seem to follow..

This is why I love poker, 100% right here this is some of the baddest effort levels and I'm very impressed w/ what a lot of people have done here. Very jealous, and really wish there was a game around here to justify making this work.

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The large counter and window vitrine display I picked up for $175 when a jewelry store had a liquidation sale of all inventory. The counter works out real nice to have the laptop, printer, chips, cash, etc. back there. The vitrine signs used to say Crescent Jewelers on them but I had two real nice aluminum signs made for $25 each from http://buildasign.com

one more....this is the inside of the vitrine display which holds our season champion bracelet, other awards, etc.

^winnar^

amazing set ups boys and girls

Are most of these just for friendly home games? do some/most of these guys take rake? are these licensed poker clubs? I live in a foreign country where poker is illegal, so I'm only asking if people are willing to invest this much on a "habbit" or do they make money on the side?

if you don't want to say it in public but would still like to answer, you can PM me. Thanks.

My story is pretty simple. We had a friendly poker game at a local cigar shop (no rake, etc.), with a good group of guys. Then a new partner in the business didn't seem to want us there.

So we played at a few people's homes in rotation, but we needed something a bit better. We even thought about pitching in to rent a place, with everyone contributing.

Then I started thinking about my barn, and how it really was just sitting there not being used for anything, but it did have water and electricity running to it already. One of the regulars at our game is a very skilled general contractor, and I decided to hire him to renovate the barn, and turn it into a poker room.

He did a fantastic job with that, and I supervised getting a road/parking lot built, and purchased the chips, custom poker tables, and other things inside the barn.

I did this all on my own dime; we do not collect a rake, and though some of our regulars have offered it, I have not accepted any donations either. It's a labor of love... I figured I might as well spend some money now on something I will enjoy for a very long time.

I don't make any money on the side at all, other than any winnings from the games, just like anyone else. Everyone pitches in to keep the place clean, bring in soda/beer/food, and have a good time.

To me, it's not really any different than spending some money to create a nice home theater, if that's your thing. I'm happy with the result.

Thanks for sharing moki. It's really beautiful, love the dark vanilla/brown colors, and the setup looks so cozy/homely (the good way) yet so professional!

I currently live in a rented small, but renovated and new apartment that I pay for alongside some support of the army in my country, I'm currently in mandatory service.

The issue I'm facing is wanting to play not micro yet not high stakes poker, but not having a place to do so. Gambling is prohibited here and there are no casinos, I live in a big city with lots of underground clubs/cardrooms but none of them has 1/2 or 2/4 tables, the least you can start with is 5/10, 10% rake, uncapped (crazy I know). My friends won't play for more than 20, but I find the 0.25/0.50 not challenging at all. (live)

I posted about hosting a weekly game on an online forum last week and got numerous responses and many compliments for willing to host a 1/2 game eventhough my apartment is very small and I didn't have any equipment.

I ended up spending 900 (not dollars, but equal value, let's say it's no Thai Bat's ) on a table, a poker-top, and 500 11.5 chips - that after posting I will take 10% rake out of every pot above 20, and capped at 3. Just to cover the expenses of buying, hosting and supplying free drinks and various snacks.

After that, I looked into it a bit more deeply and realized I wouldn't want to risk my name and status with a legal issue - and I suggested to deal myself for tips - that's when people started backing up, they said "if it's a friendly game why do we need to tip?" and so on..so "we agreed" to make it 15 to enter, which just covers the expenses, and a lot of them were happy with this.

Today I hosted the first game, I have an octagonal table that can seat 8 and it was full, I told everyone I didn't have much room for "viewers" so I didn't invite anyone else than those who first registered.

I ended up 250 after being down as much as 400 after tightening up and playing better, it took about 45 minutes of hyper-active cleaning to get the place back as it was.

I tried putting a "tip the house" carton box today, but nobody tipped, as expected.

TL;DR: I'm not playing with friends because they won't play NL200, I'm hosting almost complete strangers in my apartment for no compensation, I'd like to get some compensation, taking rake is illegal in my country, suggested tipping, they refused. You can't force anyone to tip, can you? plus my setup is pretty modest.

Sorry for going off-topic, this is such a great topic so if somebody has tips for me please PM me.

You could, I suppose, have a "cover charge" of one flat fee for them coming to your place to play the game.

I'm not sure how to help you other than that... clearly tipping isn't working for you.

My other suggestion would be to just let it go... host the games for free, enjoy the games, and hopefully profit by winning. I realize you want to recoup some of your investment, but clearly you enjoy the games as well, so... maybe just let it go?

moki, this has been kind of the idea I've had for so long to do. My parents built a sick huge barn for my dad's business and a showroom+warehouse. Ever since then I have imagined a sick like 9 table setup. Maybe whenever I inherit that thing, or I win a lot and can get my own property+barn. Though I won't go as big, because I can't imagine a use for a 9 table and space design. Your setup is SO amazing... I'm freaking jealous.

Live your dreams to the best of your ability, sir.

Thanks for your compliments.

Here's one more: Great work sir, that barn looks amazing.

buuump

Hey, I should post this here, too. HD time-lapse video of my scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z95SHhTPUZY&fmt=22

Trust me, you'll like it.

I smiled throughout the whole video and wish you were my neighbor, one reply made me corious though, is it no longer running?

From the YouTube replies:

"You did and amazing job! I'm proud of you and sad the garage will be gone soon. Seriously awesome video!!! "

How do you manage the expenses by the way?