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On
Father's Day, Sunday, June 16 daddy's everywhere will not only hope
to get small reprieve from mowing lawns and lugging the kids to
soccer games or baseball games, but earnestly hope that their day
of honor will yield them something a little more useful than the
normal gifts of ties and socks.
But where can
the loved ones of gaming enthusiasts find unique and practical Father's
Day gifts? One site in particular, POKERproducts.com
offers a vast array of gaming items for that hard-to-buy-for daddy.
"We started
in 1998 because it took me 4 months to find an affordable poker
table, so I started my own company to sell affordable tables,"
said Tom Stratton, president of POKERproducts.com.
"I then found out that I wasn't the only one to suffer from
that type of frustration. We've been extremely busy since the get
go," Stratton said.
POKERproducts.com
has been so busy and so successful that in May, The Wall St. Journal
did a critique on several Internet sites selling gaming products
and POKERproducts.com
was rated best overall.
Stratton, a
veteran on two combat tours as a medic in Viet Nam with the famous
101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), hasn't forgotten his military
roots. "We shipped cases of our "American Eagle"
playing cards to the troops in Afghanistan. We also donate a considerable
amount of gaming products to charities that are holding casino-night
events to raise money," he said.
POKERproducts.com
ships everywhere in the world. "We offer free shipping on all
of our poker tables for people who live in the 48 contiguous states,
but the farthest we've shipped to, aside from Afghanistan, was South
Korea. The president of South Korea ordered one of our poker table
sets and we had to ship it to Seoul," said Stratton.
When asked what
are the most popular gift items, especially for Father's Day, Stratton
replied, "Our most popular items are the 52" Oak Folding
Leg Poker Table (normally sells for $259.00 - now only $244 through
Fathers Day) and our
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