Casa Mango (1 Viewer)

[Eloe2000]

It’s been just over a year (much less without poker in the last 6 months because of Covid) and it looks like I will be in it for the long haul here on PCF so it is time to memorialize my journey in a consolidated photo thread.

I live in a tropics city with various colorful fruit tress in my yard. My house had already been dubbed Casa Mango due to a monstrous mango tree being the centerpiece of my backyard. We play outdoors all year round underneath this mango tree so the name has carried over to our game.

I have several mango trees but during mango season, the main mango tree sheds 100-300 mangos per day. Some mangos are falling from 30’ high. We have a standing prop rule that if anyone gets a head shot from a mango during the game, everyone owes them a fiver. None the less, you don’t wan to win that prop.

 

[Eloe2000]

Reserved

 

[Eloe2000]

Reserved

 

[Eloe2000]

It all started after going down the @Hobbyphilic rabbit hole and ending up here trying to figure out the best China clay chips and how to make $.20 chips and seating chips. Thanks to @Gear and my murder assistant I was knee deep in relabels right away.

July 2019 (1 month in):

 

[Eloe2000]

After some sample sets and before even getting my customized CC Dunes in play I needed a “real” compression clay chip set and grabbed CPC Aurora Club tournament chips from @AK Chip that I loved. My players really started to dig chips at this point.

August 2019 (2 months in):

 

[Eloe2000]

Taking advice from the forum I realized we need a table that the players could appreciate. I anticipated building a foldable topper for my existing 8ft patio table (so we need it to be reactangular otherwise it would need to be too long to cover the table), since I live in the city and don’t have a lot of space and don’t have a basement or a garage. But once we had the basic rough table assembled we couldn’t bring ourselves to cut it in half so on the fly we figured out a way I could store it in full.


September 2019 (3 months in):

It’s already time for a beer...

Feeling the pain of leather stretching and manually stapling...

 

[Eloe2000]

Just a couple months after joining I have decent chips and a real table and a better understanding how to run tourneys thanks to y’all!

October 2019 ( 4 months in):

 

[Eloe2000]

Ok, now I need Paulsons and thanks to @wonderpuddle I was finally in. I loved the context and story behind a real casino set and the process by which it was brought into the fold of the community.

October 2019 (4 months in):

 

[Eloe2000]

Thanks to the forum I learned how to mill chips for my Aransas fracs. But now that I have felt Paulson and also now felt a couple THC Paulsons I know that is my path and since I can mill it’s time for a semi custom solids set. Screw traditional colors, as long as there bright like tropical Miami.

October 2019 (4 months in):

 

[Eloe2000]

Now I needed a name and “Casa Mango” was born. My milled colorful tourney set goes live and we introduce the “Golden Mango” trophy...

December 2019 (6 months in):

 

[Eriks]

Awesome set, felt and trophy! Very cool place you’ve got!

 

[Eloe2000]

Now I needed a THC cash set, but fell in love with card pip/suits mold and shaped inlays and the classic WTHC set. Also had to use this yellow chip as a frac... the colors are too good.

January 2020 through Covid (7 months in +):

 

[Eloe2000]

Covid boredom and photographing some slashed pots of my current sets:

August 2020 (14 months in):

 

[horseshoez]

Just a couple months after joining I have decent chips and a real table and a better understanding how to run tourneys thanks to y’all!

October 2019 ( 4 months in):

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The tropical atmosphere just screams MIAMI! Fantastic man. Awesome spot to play cards.

 

[allforcharity]

How many times have you had to pay out the "mango injury" bonus?

 

[BEANO52]

those splash photos are great, thanks for sharing this !!

 

[Chipandchair]

Awesome!!!

 

[wolfpack]

saw the pictures of your chip in the card mold group buy I love the design with the black background

 

[kaimat]

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What an amazing place to play poker!!

I loved the story, the photos, and the chips. I'm really glad you decided to check out PCF a year ago!

 

[Jeevansluck]

This thread is PURE AWESOMENESS

 

[GetUrShineBox]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing

 

[crussader]

Who did the label design?

 

[Windwalker]

That's just incredible! What a great progression of learning and chipping. Congrats!

 

[Eloe2000]

Who did the label design?

I designed it. I have some other sets in the works with the same name and some slight logo tweaks but I love this one enough to continue it on.

 

[Eloe2000]

How many times have you had to pay out the "mango injury" bonus?

Believe it or not we still haven’t had a direct head shot from a mango while seated so no one had won the prop bet. We have had a couple hits to the board and some grazing of the shoulders and arms. It is loud and everyone jumps when one hits the table. And we did have one floor ruling on a head hit, but it was ruled a shoulder shot not a head shot. One day!

 

[Jeevansluck]

Evan,

I'm ready to play bro...

 

[FordPickup92]

Love this!! Mangos are one of my favorite and all your work has turned out spectacular! Thank you for posting! Definitely worth following, congratulations on your journey so far!

 

[crussader]

...We have had a couple hits to the board and some grazing of the shoulders and arms. It is loud and everyone jumps when one hits the table.

I think I would put some netting above the table.

 

[FordPickup92]

I think I would put some netting above the table.

Nah, the mangos are just part of the gambool. Plus they make a tasty snack

 

[Eloe2000]

I think I would put some netting above the table.

We could just move the table too. Everyone seems fine rolling the dice. It’s part of the ambience.