Google Now Selling Poker Items in their Google Store

Google has added three new sin items including an odd bottle opener/keylight and two gambling items.

Google Chocolate Poker Chip

This chocolate poker chip sells for $0.75 and has a face value of $25 dollars. Not a bad deal I suppose and I will probably pick up a few and hope they don’t melt at Pubcon.

Google Burton Morris Poker Set

This set is basically useless. It is pretty, but I don’t know how many of you play poker. I used to play a lot of poker and still play a little bit. In fact - I left SES NYC one day early to play at ATLarge which I have played in many years now. I did ok finishing 11th out of 174 people in their biggest event - the No Limit Texas Hold’em event. Oh and note to Jodi - I wasn’t pouting cause Iwanted the wine cozy - I always look that way.

Anyway - the problem with this set is three fold:

One with 78 poker chips - in three different colors - that doesn’t allow for a lot of players. I think the MINIMUM number of chips I have EVER started with in a poker game is 20. After rebuys, change and stuff you need more. In AC I usually will sit down with 100 chips - in most home poker games - around 20 - 60. This set would be good for two players max IMHO.

Two, the cards are unidirectional. when picking up some players cards and shuffling - most people shuffle in a manner that would not reverse the direction of the cards. In fact, in most casinos, I believe the regulations would prohibit this. This would allow for easy cheating as aces from the previous hand could be oriented in a different direction. This would make everyone at the table with even a modest poker background uncomfortable as most of them would not be attempting to cheat, but it would be hard not to notice this happening. These cards would be illegal in every casino in the world.

Three, I am not following poker as much as I did - I know things have changed and it has gotten popular and there are tons of TV shows, but I have played for over a decade and don’t recall ever seeing dice or Yahtzee as part of any casino poker or even home poker game - and I have seen some weird home poker games.

Oh and it sell for $52.95.

Posted by Chris on Sunday, April 2nd, 2006 at 11:19 am.