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1. What To Buy A Poker Player For Christmas Lights
2. What To Buy A Poker Player For Christmas Eve
3. What To Get A Poker Player For Christmas
4. What To Buy A Poker Player For Christmas Gift Exchange

Stocking Emptying

A poker player’s ideal Christmas Day would start with opening the stocking at the end of the bed. What would they find? Brilliant gifts that they probably wouldn’t buy for themselves, of course. We’re not talking socks or another set of fancy cutlery. Things like a paper aeroplane controlled by your smartphone, or a pan that you can cook multiple foods in at once. Take a look at our handy guide if you want some last-minute inspiration.

Breakfast of Champions

Next up, downstairs for a decent breakfast. We’re talking champagne, smoked salmon, smashed avocado, anything that involves bacon…it doesn’t really matter exactly what it is, as long as it’s delicious. Poker players know eating and drinking the right stuff before a big tournament or event is important, and it’s no different for Christmas Day. It’s one of the biggest events of the year, and poker players are going to want to get their nutrition right to get them through it.

Give and Take

Giving and getting presents from the family is always a moment of high variance on Christmas Day. For the competitive poker player, this is always an opportunity to outshine your siblings. You'll typically want to give the best gifts to brothers, sisters and parents to prove it’s just another area of life in which you are the superior sibling. A bit too competitive? Sure, but at least the family will receive great presents from it. Everyone wins.

All-In (Your Belly)

Now, Christmas Lunch is the big one. A chance for poker players to stuff their faces with delicious grub, wolfing down turkey, stuffing, pigs-in-blankets, roast potatoes, honey-roasted carrots and every other brilliant bit of food that traditionally makes up the biggest meal of the year. Christmas Lunch can also be a great opportunity for poker players to get some prop-betting in. No-one likes Brussels sprouts, sure, but how many can you get through? Taking on a plate of Brussels is like getting through the early levels of a big live tournament…no-one likes doing it, but it’s got to be done so you can get to the good stuff.

Let the Games Begin

In a lot of homes on Christmas, the afternoon is when the games start. Whether it’s Monopoly, card games or charades, your average poker player is going to want to crush everyone, just like normal. It’s just yet another opportunity to demonstrate your clear superiority to the rest of the family. And if you lose? It’s either your teammate’s fault or just plain bad luck. The concept of variance is not normally associated with charades, but there’s no doubt that you’d come out on top in the long term. Oh well. For real degenerates, find a drunk uncle to put some real cash on the outcome with. If you’re not playing poker, you still might as well make a bit of extra cash, right?

Christmas on the Box

What To Buy A Poker Player For Christmas Lights

Christmas TV is often, well, pretty poor. There’s the Queen's speech, which one slightly over-patriotic grandparent always makes the rest of the family watch. The Doctor Who Christmas special? Maybe 10 years ago. EastEnders? No thanks. Mrs Brown’s Boys? Absolutely not. The point is, it’s tricky to find anything decent, so for a poker player’s ideal Christmas there’s only one thing to do: watch a movie. Maybe Casino Royale for the most unrealistically spectacular poker scene out there. For poker professionals, you might need to be prepared to answer questions like “Is that what your job’s like then?” I mean, it’s pretty much identical, there are just fewer tears of blood at Dusk Till Dawn.

So there you have it. A poker player’s ideal Christmas. Filled with competitiveness, awesome presents, wonderful food, and crap TV. Merry Christmas!

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The Thanksgiving turkey’s carcass has been cast into the trash, people have gotten over their tryptophan comas and life is moving on, so you know what that means…it’s time to start thinking about Christmas! Yes, that delightful time of the year when we look at our loved ones and say to ourselves, “What the heck do I get you this year?” If that person is a poker player, there are some suggestions that we here at Poker News Daily can make.

D&B PUBLISHING

Everyone thinks that poker books have gone out of favor. The exact opposite is true. If you look hard enough, you can come up with some great poker books that have been released over the past year. And, if you look inside the covers, you’ll probably find that D&B Publishing has been a part of bringing that book to you. There are at least three of their offerings you should take a look at.

First, there’s the autobiography of Phil Hellmuth. Poker Brat: Phil Hellmuth’s Autobiography is as billed…the story of arguably the greatest poker player of all time in his own words. In the book, we get to find out some of the things that helped to drive the 14-time World Series of Poker champion from his quaint home in Wisconsin to reach his goals of poker superstardom. I challenge anyone to read this book and not hear Hellmuth’s voice reading it.

What To Buy A Poker Player For Christmas Eve

For a change of pace (and a bit of humility), there is the autobiography of 2016 WSOP Championship Event winner Qui Nguyen. From Vietnam to Vegas! How I Won the World Series of Poker Main Event is a hand-by-hand analysis of Nguyen’s victory at last year’s WSOP while simultaneously telling his life story. Beginning as a child in Saigon until that bright night in November 2016 when he captured poker’s World Championship, Nguyen tells a story (and offers insights into the hands that carried him to the title) that is engrossing and dramatic. (Writer’s note: a full review of the book will be forthcoming.)

Finally, there’s the story of the United Kingdom’s Chris Moorman. Moorman: The Inside Story of the Most Successful Online Poker Player of All Time is the book that arguably should have been released before his Moorman’s Book of Poker because it offers a bit of history behind Moorman himself rather than just throwing the reader into reviewing poker hands. There is some of that review in Moorman, but there’s some background given to the reader as Moorman delves into his life and what drove him to his success today.

These are but a few of the releases from D&B Publishing. It would behoove you to check them out if you’ve got a poker fan on your gift list.

MANCRATES

There are those people on your list that are quite difficult to buy a gift for. In those instances, you have to go more for the uniqueness of the gift rather than maybe its functionality. ManCrates is an outlet where you can find that unique gift.

ManCrates is offering an “Ammo Can Poker Set” which will at least give the base for someone’s next poker game (they may need more chips!). A 300-chip poker set is joined with two decks of cards inside an ammunition cannister, perhaps knocking off someone who has a fondness for weapons at the same time. If the poker set doesn’t exactly meet your needs, there are a wealth of other items that you might find for a gift.

BDO POKER TABLES

If you’ve got a bit of money to spend on that Christmas gift – and you’ve got some room in the house – then BDO Poker Tables may have something up your alley. Whether it is a simple poker table or a custom build, BDO Poker Tables should be able to come up with something that will please the poker player on your list. There’s a reason that the company is the official poker table of the World Poker Tour – they do quality work and for a fair price.

BLUE SHARK OPTICS

What To Get A Poker Player For Christmas

At least until they are banned, poker players can still wear sunglasses on the tables. The eyewear made by Blue Shark Optics are in high demand from poker players because of the variety of their product as well as the quality. The company states that their glasses stop “100% of UV and over 90% of Blue Light distortion with minimal color distortion.” This is critical in that UV light can damage your vision and, in extreme circumstances, can cause cataracts and macular degeneration. The company also offers eyewear for other life situations such as computer usage and driving, but it is their poker product that they are most known for.

What To Buy A Poker Player For Christmas Gift Exchange

There are usually some things out there that poker players would be excited to receive. What are some of the suggestions that you would make? Let us know and perhaps we’ll create another list of reader suggestions!