Start the hand
Each player is dealt three hole cards. Betting begins just like Texas Hold'em.
Our story
Built around the table you already own.
Freeway Felts started where most home-game stories start: at a kitchen table that was beautiful for dinner and terrible for cards.
The origin
The bungee felt played great. Setting it up did not.
A friend brought over a bungee-anchored casino felt one night. It played incredibly: cards moved, chips landed clean, and the table finally felt like it belonged to the game. The cost was ten minutes under the table hooking cords while everyone else waited.
The product we sell is the version of that felt that does not make anyone crawl underneath.
Design philosophy
Engineer the tension. Subtract everything else.
No cup holders. No built-in chip trays. No padded rail cosplay. The product is the playing surface itself: sized to your table, cut from casino-grade felt, and tensioned by a closure system designed for one job.
The simplicity is the point.
The game behind the name
Named after a faster game.
Freeway is a Texas Hold'em high-low split game with a three-card start. It plays like Hold'em, except each player starts with three hole cards and must discard one after the flop. More movement, more decisions. That is the whole idea behind the felt, too: keep the game moving.
Rules at the table
Simple structure. More decisions.
The flop and the discard
The flop is dealt: three community cards face up. After the flop and before the turn, every player must discard one hole card. Each player must be down to two hole cards before the turn is dealt.
Finish the hand
After the discard, play continues like Texas Hold'em: turn, betting, river, betting, showdown.
Split the pot
At showdown, the pot is divided into a high half and a low half. The best traditional five-card poker hand wins high. The lowest qualifying five-card hand wins low.
Low qualifier
A qualifying low must contain five unpaired cards ranked eight or lower. Aces count as low. Straights and flushes do not count against a low hand. If nobody qualifies, high wins the full pot.
Scooping and splitting
If one player has both the best high hand and the best qualifying low, that player scoops. If two or more players tie for either half, that half is split evenly.
Quick reminder: best high wins half, best qualifying low wins half, best high plus best low scoops the whole pot, and no qualifying low means the high hand takes it all. That little discard after the flop is where the game gets teeth.
Made in the USA
Cut and sewn to order.
We do not drop-ship overseas inventory. When you place an order, the cover is built to your dimensions, in your color, with your closure configuration.
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