Before you buy
All 17 of them — the practical, the skeptical, and the honest limits. Missing yours? hello@steadilabs.com reads everything.
That's the whole reason it's shaped this way. The wide flexible base spreads across the wooden rail instead of tipping on the narrow lip, and the fins keep a can from sliding toward the felt when someone leans in for a shot. It resists tipping — it doesn't replace the house rule of keeping it off the cloth itself.
Depends which size you got. Standard cutouts don't take a rocks glass or tumbler, and jumbo ones leave a regular can loose enough to rattle. This holds either size, drops in anywhere on the racetrack or the rail, and moves to whichever seat you're actually sitting in.
Measure the bottom, not the rim. A base of 2 to 3 inches across fits — the 40 oz Stanley does, and so does a standard can or tallboy. Handled mugs don't; the handle lands right where a fin needs to grip.
No — it doesn't touch the felt at all. It sits on the wooden rail, the racetrack, or off the table entirely, so the drink never has a reason to be over the cloth in the first place.
No. Nothing gets clamped, drilled, or bolted on. It sits on top of whatever surface is closest and comes with you when you move to the next game.
Same base, same grip — it works at least as well on hard, flat surfaces as it does on carpet or a cushion. Set it down in the walking lane and a bumped drink is far less likely to go over or walk off.
Yes — that's soft, uneven, moving ground, which is exactly what the base is built for. It flexes with the cushion instead of tipping on it, so a long session doesn't mean holding a drink one-handed for hours.
Rinse it or run it through the dishwasher. It's one piece of flexible material with nothing to unscrew or take apart, so the sticky stuff has nowhere to hide.
It's called the Steadi, molded in small runs in Orange, California by Steadi Labs. Every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 30 days to change your mind.
Bar-height pub tables run about 40 to 42 inches tall with 28 to 30 inch stools — hard, flat, and by far the easiest surface in the room to grip. It holds steady there the same as anywhere else; the honest catch is that the bar is usually the one corner of the room that isn't near the game, so drinks migrate back to the rail and the racetrack no matter how good the bar top itself is.
A standard 12 oz longneck measures about 2.41 inches across its base — inside the 2 to 3 inch range the fins are built for, if toward the lower half of it. The base is what the fins grip, not the neck, so the bottle settles in the same way a can does; it's about the least stable thing to set down bare on a rail or a cushion, which is exactly the case this is built for.
It's a genuinely stable glass on a flat bar top, which is why it's frustrating that standard-size rail cup holders are exactly the ones forum owners say a rocks glass doesn't fit. The fins grip a base across the same 2 to 3 inch range regardless of shape, so the same steady bottom that works on the bar keeps working on the rail, the racetrack, or the arm of the couch.
The oche sits 7 ft 9.25 in back from the board, and every thrower standing at it has both hands committed for the whole turn — which is exactly why drinks in a darts rotation end up parked on the foosball cabinet or set at ankle height on the carpet. Set it down anywhere in reach of the throwing line instead — carpet, cabinet edge, windowsill — and it holds the same grip it would on a table.
Slide-unders solve the "no holder at all" problem but bring their own list of complaints: forum threads report cups too shallow for real security, a grip that lets go during an aggressive hand or slips off a thinner rail, and in some cases sharp tack welds on the underside that scratch the rail they're clipped to. This doesn't clip to anything — it sits on top, doesn't touch the rail's finish, and moves seat to seat instead of staying bolted to one spot.
No — the fins grip the can itself, not a dry film of contact with the surface underneath, so condensation running down the side doesn't loosen anything. A basement's warmer, more humid air does make a cold can sweat harder than it would upstairs; wipe the base dry after if the ring bothers you, but it won't change how steady the drink sits.
One per drink is how it's meant to work, so most tables running a full game night end up with one per player — on the rail, the racetrack, or wherever each person is sitting. Nothing about it requires a matching table or a fixed spot, so mixing seats or bringing your own to a friend's game night works the same way.
It solves a problem anyone who owns a pool table or a poker table already has an opinion about — where a house rule bans drinks, most owners have a felt story or a spilled-hand story to go with it. It ships free, molded and packed in Orange, California, in colors named around the room itself rather than a generic gadget palette.
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