Jesus Christ..... What the Hell Happened? (2 Viewers)

Problem is I rarely have 8 guys that will regularly show up. A few guys host tourneys and such around the area, but cash games last time I was digging around were few and far between. The poker landscape of players has also completely changed from the heyday of poker when people had wheelbarrows of money to spend as disposable income.
Yo I'm reliable. I however do not have wheelbarrows of cash unfortunately.
 
I get out of the poker table building / forum hosting / chip collecting scene for a decade and it goes to hell! A landslide of changes across basically every single part of the gaming, supply, industry, chips, manufacturing, and internet places to call home.

Barry closed up shop. Ten finally ran everyone off with his pool of crazy. Keen's site continued on a steady nosedive after I split and started mine (the OG PC Potato Poker Table Plans) then morphing into BYOC then finally Perfect Mancave. (that of which I sold / got tired of being a forum admin). A few other forums and such have since closed up or moved on to be taken over by the spam bots. Seems like there's only a few that survived, or were created to fill the void. So hattip of respect to whomever is running this place. It's a labor of love.

That being said, I see a few familiar forum name/avatars and vendors. Good to see Apache still around, Chanman, Gene at ABC, HPC, SunFly, Chip Room, etc.

Been probably 10 or so years since I was really active in the poker community on a daily basis on the table, chip, forum, etc. side. Still play cards once in a while, but not a regular at a tanble or local cardroom. I like to think I help another guy make his car payment or two at the usual suspects random home games.

I was sorting out some boxes from the last move and kept shuffling over old sets of poker chips I was holding on to and figured I'd poke around to see what the market is like for them. They've been collecting dust for 10 years. Would rather avoid eBay if I had to, and the search for active poker / chip forums has drastically changed from days long ago. Maybne one day I'll getmy ass in gear, insulate the garage to host games again and pull the tables out of the raters. Michigan winters dictate otherwise without heat in a garage.

Anyways, good to see you all. I'll churn through the n00b conditions on a new forum, and hopefully find a few familar faces and perhaps a new home for a couple sets of chips.

Quads
I’ve only read part of the first sentence of your post but when is the last time you left anything for 10 years, came back and found it unaffected?

Read the rest, and you are going to be furrther shocked by what you see here. Welcome
Back, get ready for the crazy!
 
See, this is the kind of shit that happens when you leave the door unlocked. The riff raff just hops the chocolate fence and gets back in....

Good to see you back Quads :tup:
 
See, this is the kind of shit that happens when you leave the door unlocked. The riff raff just hops the chocolate fence and gets back in....

Good to see you back Quads :tup:
This is why you can't have nice things.
Good to see you again Irish. Hopefully life's treating you well.
I'm less of an asshole now so shouldn't be too much to worry about.
 
I’ve only read part of the first sentence of your post but when is the last time you left anything for 10 years, came back and found it unaffected?

Read the rest, and you are going to be furrther shocked by what you see here. Welcome
Back, get ready for the crazy!
I got kids and dogs.... I think 10 minutes is a fair measurement. :)
 
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I got kids and dogs.... I think 10 minutes is a fair measurement. :)
#truth. Look at the difference between 1 and 11, or 4 and 14, and all becomes clear.
 
Man, you still do beautiful work. Awesome to see!
I wish I could get a regular game together and play more. Would be worth a custom cloth without question.
Problem is I rarely have 8 guys that will regularly show up. A few guys host tourneys and such around the area, but cash games last time I was digging around were few and far between. The poker landscape of players has also completely changed from the heyday of poker when people had wheelbarrows of money to spend as disposable income. Admittedly, a lot of my life priorities have changed as well, so I'm partly to blame on that front.
Plenty of poker with reliable guys west of you! I don’t know about the wheelbarrow part though. Hope to see you around soon.
 
No. Nothing wildly exotic yet.
A few thousand MGQ's and a thousand $1's from Camino Casino card room in California.

My heart sank there for a second, I thought you said Cameo...
 
No shit! The post isn't even cold yet and the jackals want to eat!
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I remember that name... I think. I never paid attention to others.
 
And certainly lots of years in cat years…

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I chatted with him a couple years ago via Signal / Whatsapp or something. He was vagabond style traveling in a 5th wheel trailer down in Texas or something. Or was heading to Texas from VA. Sold his place in HI, wasn't living there anymore. Was still doing software dev but didn't have the clients he had / was surviving off of before. Weird blast from the past. Don't know if he was still trolling with Oreo or not.
 
Sorry for the necrobump, but damn! Is this really the only thread that pops up when I search for Perfect Mancave?

Sadly, it looks like I've missed Quads here, but I still don't recognize some names. What a ride it was as on Keen's forum and continued on at PMC. I've been AWOL for a while myself and basically checked back in to see what's happening on the scene. Hell, when I came here in 2017 I connected with Moose who apparently lives around the corner from me and I was chatting about going over to check out his game, and that didn't even end up happening. Next thing ya know, it's 7 years later and I have maybe played a handful of times during that period. Oof.

Who else is kicking around here that was active from the Keen and PMC days?

Has anything interesting happened during my absence?
 
Hey Wedge!
Just wore my PMC t-shirt the other day. Haven't seen Quads since he returned from Australia.
Hey Wedge! Been a long time....you were a Red Wings fan of I recall? I made it down to the Joe for what was supposed to be their last game there as they hosted the Canadiens. Turned out it wasn't as the had to host the Devils the next day. Lol.

I had a PMC hoodie that I got in one of the Christmas exchanges....it barely fit me then, certainly wouldn't now.

I was going through my chips yesterday and that's what brought me back. I have a PMC chip as well...do you recall what the deal was with that? It's a baby blue Chipco.
 
I have a PMC chip as well...do you recall what the deal was with that? It's a baby blue Chipco.
I have the same chip.

I think Quads had a set made in blue, red and green. And I think they are BRPro, not Chipcos.

That forum went downhill quick once he sold and monetized it.
 

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