5 Great Gifts For Your Favorite Poker Player 2022

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It’s that time of year again! Get ready to start thinking about buying gifts for those near and dear to you. It’s been a tough couple of years for poker players, so you know your poker-playing friends and family are desperate for a little poker love.

You know who they are. She’s your sister who takes every vacation in Las Vegas. Or maybe he’s your dad who is up late playing on PokerStars every night. Now you’ve got to wrap your mind around finding them a gift. Poker Pilgrims would like to help you with suggestions for great poker gifts for the player in your life. In these tough times, don’t they deserve a little something special to help them get back into the swing of the game?

Great Poker Gifts

A book to curl up with would be at the top of our list of poker gifts. Which book, you ask? Here are some of our favorites:

For the Beginner: We love Phil Gordon’s Little Book series, starting with The Little Green Book: Lessons and Teachings in No Limit Texas Hold Em

The Tournament Player: Arnold Snyder’s Poker Tournament Formula is a must-read for any player who wants to get serious about tournament poker.

For the Cash Player: Harrington gives some good solid advice in Cash Games (How to Win in No-Limit Hold ‘Em Money Games) Vol. I that still holds up today.

For the Experienced Player who wants to enhance their play: We love Peak Poker Performance by Dr. Patricia Cardner and Jonathan Little from D&B Poker which covers the mental and physical aspects of being ready to play your best game. If only we could do a better job of following their advice!

For anyone looking for a great poker read: we strongly recommend all of the books in our 5 Best Poker Reads post. My favorite remains Positively Fifth Street by James McManus. What a fun and wild ride that book offers.

For other poker strategy books that we recommend, check out our post on Best Poker Books for Learning Poker Strategy. Maria Konnikova’s book, The Biggest Bluff, would make a great gift book as well.

A set of beautiful and durable playing cards is always a great poker gift to enhance the home game: We love these Copag Cards and use them heavily at our own kitchen table. In fact, we end up buying a new set of these yearly so that we always have fresh decks.
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A subscription to a poker training site to help them brush up on their skills. We are admittedly biased here, as Advanced Poker Training pays us to work (and blog) for their site. However, we can honestly tell you that their approach to training is the best that we’ve seen. Rather than just offering a series of videos and articles about how other people play poker, APT invites you to play your preferred game (tournament, cash, sit-n-go, whatever’s your poison). They then analyze your play and send out a weekly plan with practice exercises and advice. A membership at APT is one of our favorite poker gifts to give. We have also found Daniel Negreanu’s Masterclass in poker to be very helpful in advancing our thoughts about the game.

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A fun poker t-shirt: There are a variety of t-shirts out there. However, we have created a few shirts for our own personal use, that you are welcome to gift to your loved one. Search us at Spiral of Doom Ts on Amazon to see more.

If you’ve got real money to burn, every poker player’s secret dream is a buy-in to The WSOP Main Event for a mere $10,000. If that is a bit out of reach, perhaps a buy-in to a smaller event at a card room near you.

BONUS IDEA

If you are a tournament player like us, you need to have your stuff with you for those long days at the poker table. We love these backpacks so much that we have bought three (one for each of us and one for my daughter). With a padded laptop section and room for snacks, phones, chargers, and anything else you might desire, this backpack has you covered.