Introducing PULSE: The World’s First Modular Poker Rail System

Few issues are as pleasing within the poker world as sitting down with associates in a house sport and relieving them of their chips. All you want is a case of chips, a pack of taking part in playing cards, and a poker desk. It’s that final requirement that’s typically a sticking level.

Until you’re lucky sufficient to have sufficient house for a devoted poker site or have someplace to retailer a cumbersome poker desk, you doubtless must make do with taking part in poker across the eating desk. Whereas such a taking part in floor works, in a vogue, it’s removed from very best.

Anybody who has performed poker from the “consolation” of their eating desk will attest to having the exhausting edges dig into their forearms or the playing cards sliding off the desk onto the ground after an overenthusiastic seller pitched too exhausting. That is the place PULSE is available in.

PULSE, the brainchild of Gordon Lau, is the world’s first modular poker rail system. It transforms a typical eating desk into knowledgeable poker desk in a matter of seconds, with no screws or mechanical elements required.

Comprising solely six segments, PULSE makes use of a US Patent-pending “Gravity-Lock System” to show your eating room desk right into a high-end on line casino expertise. Every of the six strong bamboo segments is wrapped in high-density foam and premium microfiber leather-based, and so they join across the perimeter of your desk by way of hidden magnets. The segments will not slip because of the particular textured rubber anti-slip base that “bites” into your poker mat’s material.

As soon as put in, which takes lower than 10 seconds, your eating desk is instantly reworked right into a casino-quality poker desk full with rails which are roughly 10cm excessive and 3cm broad, offering consolation for you and your opponents, and performing as a rail to stop playing cards from falling onto the ground.

When the sport is over, hopefully with you having profited healthily from your folks, PULSE is well damaged again right down to its core segments, which stack neatly into the included duffel bag that may slide beneath a mattress or be positioned right into a closet till your subsequent dwelling sport. No cumbersome tools. No problem, only a poker desk each time and, because of it solely weighing 9kg (9 lbs), wherever you need one.

Though PULSE is designed to be suitable with customary (180cm x 90cm) and compact (140cm x 70cm) poker mats that you could be already personal, there’s a PULSE Premium Mat that helps elevate your private home sport expertise. Amongst its options are a pace fabric floor that allows playing cards to glide with ease, a non-slip rubber base, and all-important sound dampening to scale back the noise of slamming chips.

PULSE additionally gives apremium 43mm ceramic, casino-grade chip set, and decks of PULSE premium plastic taking part in playing cards.

Yow will discover out extra about PULSE by way of its devoted Kickstarter web page, the place you possibly can again the undertaking along with receiving a wholesome low cost earlier than the game-changing product begins to hit the cabinets.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker business since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he turned the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from dwell reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his position of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.