Every question, answered.

Yes — hard, flat surfaces are where it works best. The wide base spreads the contact so a dragged pot or a stray elbow pushes the whole footprint instead of tipping a narrow glass, and the fins hold the drink from the sides. Knocked off level, it settles back.

Don't — and you won't need to. The felt's ban exists because even coated speed cloth isn't waterproof, and no holder changes that. What this does is make the surfaces you're already allowed to use actually work: the rail, the margin around the mat, a folding table. The drink stays close without ever touching the cloth.

Check the base, not the rim. About 2 to 3 inches across settles into the fins — the 40 oz Stanley included. A handled coffee mug won't; the handle sits exactly where a fin needs to close.

No. No hole saw, no clamp, no adhesive. It sits on top of whatever surface is nearest — rail, margin, folding table — and moves seats when you do, no install either way.

That's the situation it's built for. The base flexes and brings the drink back level when a chair scrapes back or the table gets bumped. It's not magic — a direct hit is still a direct hit — but the ordinary jolt of a rowdy table is exactly what it shrugs off.

The drink stands in the base, so the sweat off a cold can lands there instead of on the wood around your topper. Rinse the base after — it's doing the coaster's job while it grips.

Honest answer: this resists tipping, it isn't a lid. It holds an open glass steady and settles it back when the table gets bumped, which is most of what keeps a cash game dry. For a second layer over real money on the felt, pair it with a lidded tumbler.

Rinse it or run it through the dishwasher. It's one piece of flexible material with no seams for anything to pack into.

It's called the Steadi — molded in small runs in Orange, California by Steadi Labs, veteran-founded and patent pending. Every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 30 days to change your mind.

One per seat covers a full ring game best — up to ten, since a standard poker table seats that many and every seat has its own drink migrating between the rail and wherever else it ends up during a hand. A smaller table or a two-table split needs fewer; there's no set minimum, so it scales with however many chairs are actually in use that night.

Alongside it, in most cases. Small drop-in wells run about 2.6 to 2.7 inches inside and jumbo ones 3.25 to 3.5 — neither covers the full range of what shows up at a table now. This sits on the felt's edge or the rail next to the built-in well rather than inside it, so a tumbler whose base runs past 3 inches, or a can sleeved in a koozie, finally has somewhere to go that isn't just next to the holder it never fit.

No — temperature doesn't change how the fins hold a container. A rocks glass is the table standard for a reason: short, heavy, and wide-based at around 3 inches, and it seats the same whether it's fresh over ice or has been sweating for twenty minutes. What does happen is the condensation collects in the base instead of on the rail underneath it, the same as with any cold drink.

Not within the range. A slim seltzer-style can runs about 2.25 inches across, comfortably above the 2-inch floor where a base starts to sit loose instead of gripped — the same can that rattles inside a jumbo 3.5-inch built-in well settles into this one. The floor is real, though: anything narrower, like a shot glass, is genuinely too thin for the fins to close around.

It's built around exactly that role. A host already owns the table, the chips, and the cards; what's usually missing is somewhere for a guest's drink to go that doesn't involve drilling into the rail or refereeing the no-drinks rule all night. It comes in more than one color, works with whatever a guest already brought — bottle, can, tumbler, glass — and needs no installation, which matters on a table that isn't the gift-giver's to modify.

It's a single molded piece, nothing bolted, clipped, or glued on — no separate tabs to snap the way a clip-on holder's plastic ones do, and no surface coating to peel or discolor the way a table topper's finish can. Dried beer and chip dust rinse off or come out in a dishwasher, and getting thrown in a bag between sessions doesn't strain it the way it would a rigid holder.

It solves a different problem than a new table would. A table with jumbo 3.25-to-3.5-inch wells fixes the tumbler and koozie problem but reopens the other one — a slim can or a Solo cup has room to rattle loose in a hole that big. This grips the container itself rather than a fixed-diameter hole, so it handles both ends of that range on the same table without anyone replacing anything.

It can stay put for the whole session. There's nothing to reposition between hands — it stays right where it landed for that seat, and it only relocates if the player does, whether that's a mid-game seat change or packing up at the end of the night.