concept poker mame

[silen7ce]

Looking for some advice and feedback! I've been contemplating the idea of a cocktail cabinet. I have a big open living room \ kitchen floor plan.  The original idea was for it to be off to the side but then I thought maybe there is a way to combine my weekly poker night (fold out table) and the cocktail cabinet in one.  I don't actually have a kitchen table.  The wife and I eat at the kitchen Bartop so this could also double as a table if we throw a cloth over.  Idea is to have two mirrored large displays slightly angled.  Two people could play fighters across from each other on their own screen and jump in with 4 players for beat em up and gauntlet type games.  Forgive the poor concept drawing! Thoughts???

[yotsuya]

Interesting idea. I wonder how well those controls would work being diagonal to the screen. We bleat on here about angled joysticks, so I wonder about full angled panels.

When I read the first few sentences, before I saw the concept, I thought you were going to go with a regular cocktail setup, but with two players per side. That would probably work better.

[Vigo]

I have seen some completely awesome poker tables with computers in them running tourny software as well as a jukebox. I am usually not an advocate of an "everything" machine, but if you are gonna combine this with a poker table, I hope you are at least looking into poker tourny management software to add as well.

[silen7ce]

Good points. I had the same concern with the diagonal control set up.  I might try to have the CP directly in front of the screen and just slightly off set each player.  Going to go back to the drawing board!

Edit:  Making it more like a traditional cocktail would give me more room for the screens as well...

[silen7ce]

Also my initial idea was just to play poker on top of the table and maybe run some juke box software.  I was completely unaware they had tournament software for tables.  I am going to start doing some research as to how to incorporate it! 

[Vigo]

http://www.instructables.com/id/Put-an-LCD-in-your-Poker-Table/

Here is a bit of inspiration. 

And this looks like the software they used:

http://www.thetournamentdirector.net/