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garyovich

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jul 22, 2012
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I recently got my first poker. For years I have not cared for them without ever owning one. Now I am a dyed-in-the-wool convert. It has instantly become one of my favorite pipes. The only problem is...now I want more of them !

 

ssjones

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Staff member
May 11, 2011
19,018
13,093
Covington, Louisiana
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+1 on David Jones for a Poker shape at a reasonable price.
This one has been a very nice smoker and is with David for a new stem, I dropped it on Halloween night, hopefully it is back shortly.
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I'd love a British made Poker shape, Ferndown Pokers look incredible. I'd love to own something like this:
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npod

Lifer
Jun 11, 2017
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I have a few pokers. I like them crazy and off the wall with unique shaping. Castello does a creat job. I also love this Becker, Italian neoclassic shape.
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azpipe

Starting to Get Obsessed
Feb 25, 2015
148
6
I have a few pokers. I like them crazy and off the wall with unique shaping. Castello does a creat job. I also love this Becker, Italian neoclassic shape.
Good lord npod, that becker morta is gorgeous!

 
Jan 28, 2018
13,997
157,349
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Sarasota, FL
npod. that is an awesome looking pipe. Love it! I like the look of pokers, I like how they sit on their own. On the other hand, I'm a clincher and they're most often heavier. And they certainly don't fit well in most pipe racks. If I had one that looks like yours, I'd learn to deal with the shortcomings.

 

techie

Part of the Furniture Now
Jul 20, 2018
589
10
The Becker is so cool! I'm impressed by the creativity that goes into pipe design.

 

scloyd

Lifer
May 23, 2018
5,972
12,222
I have a MM Dagner Poker cob that I received as a gift. It's my only poker and I like that I can just set down and come back to it later. I would definitely buy another poker in the future...not another MM though.

 

npod

Lifer
Jun 11, 2017
2,947
1,073
Here is a magnum sized Castello, Fiammata, Aristocratica, poker shape 88. It’s almost impossible to get a true sense of the size of this pipe from a photograph. I tried to place some props around it for comparison. FYI, the inner bowl depth is 2 1/8 inches deep. It’s a massive hunk of briar. So fun. So impractical. I love it.
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mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,211
60,635
Pokers, as a shape, don't have any specialty in blends. However, like most pipes, they can be matched up with blends that they favor, pipe by pipe. I have a LaRocca with folksy carved rustication of interlocking loops; I saw it and thought it was too much, went away, and came back two weeks later and bought it. Its specialty is faster burning burley like Tabac-Manil Semois and Five Brothers and many other burley blends, a tall deep bowl on a fairly light weight pipe. The sitter aspect is always handy. I think I have three or four pokers, depending on how you designate the shapes ... the LaRocca, a Parker, a Jerry Perry Mountain Laurel, and maybe one or two more. I'm not a Dunhill guy, but foggy's poker is probably my all-time favorite from the 'hills.

 
May 3, 2010
6,516
1,794
Las Vegas, NV
I actually ended up nabbing a Don Warren poker in his Del Rio rusticated finish. It's a really good smoker. Love the fact I can just sit it down go off to do something and comeback to it. I also picked up a Dagner cob and it's pretty good as well.
panamacharlie- those aren't pokers. Just because a pipe sits on its own doesn't make it a poker, that just makes it a sitter. Most of what you posted are freehands/fans with some odd shaping/carving. Pokers typically have a barrell/cylindrical shape to the bowl and the shank usually goes in a bit higher than say a billiard. If the bottom is slanted or on a canted angle that makes it a cherrywood not a poker. And now I'm sure it's clear as mud lol. .

 

brooklynpiper

Part of the Furniture Now
May 8, 2018
662
1,452
I don't know - I've never been a poker fan. They never looked right. Too burley. Too outdoorsy. Too broad. I'm tall and lanky and you don't see Gumby with a poker do ya?

 

panamacharlie

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jun 13, 2016
228
27
Lord, I know that! I was just making a joke because someone made a point of a poker's ability to stand on its own.

 

bigpond

Lifer
Oct 14, 2014
2,019
14
I only have one Poker style pipe, a Duke.. I don’t think anyone would accuse that pipe of being overly burly. Super convenient to use and pretty to boot. I’m a big fan of such pipes.

 
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