Having used a number of different off the shelf toppers, I REALLY didn't want seams.they are troublesome.and get in the way of dealing.and more importantly to an obsessive-compulsive eye like mine, they are just unsightly. I wouldn't be carrying this topper outside of the house, so it didn't need to go far, but it did need to be mobile enough to get in and out of that basement. I looked at a number of DIY table designs and decided I could adapt them to a table topper design that would have all the elegance of a true poker table with the portablility of a table topper. And of course.I couldn't spend too much $$$ (the wife would have my head). It would have to be stored in a smallish closet in the basement and carried up a flight of stairs every couple of weeks for the neighborhood poker game.
The basic idea was to create what looked like a permanently installed poker table.that could be placed in the dining room on the existing table. So this project was going to have a few challenges. We live in a small place without a lot of storage. I wanted a NICE poker ouble is.I don't have a poker room.or a man cave.or a game room.or a den.you get the idea.