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I was going to wait to post this until later this month when I hit my actual 1 year Pokerversary, but I figured that today was the right day for it. My Chanman table arrived, and I finally feel like I'm a full member of this community. I'm going to try to keep this post short enough so that people will actually read it.
I've been playing poker since college (about 20 years). We started off playing with 100 pennies each and some plastic plinko-style chips. After college, poker dropped off my radar as I moved away from friends and found myself without a crew. And that's the way it stayed until I had kids. Suddenly, the local dads became my group and I decided to take the plunge and spend some serious dough. I purchased dice chips and a folding table top from Bed Bath & Beyond. After a few years, my local game of 5 or 6 people was pretty consistent, so I slowly began upgrading my basement. I added some real "casino weight" 14g AK slugged plastics. And I thought I was hot shit. Eventually, I bought a nice octagon table, and I was set forever.
And the years passed, and I started to wonder if there was something better. My slugged chips weren't feeling as awesome anymore, so I started to do some research online. And that's when I found @Hobbyphilic. A man who I've actually never conversed with, but who I blame for EVERYTHING. And I mean EVERYTHING...
Here's a summary of my year's decent into madness:
Long Story Short:
This is the first time I've ever felt like I was part of an online community. You all have answered my questions, educated me and held me when I made mistakes. I'd like to call out the following people who have helped get me to this point, whether it was from answering my questions or just selling me some awesome stuff.
@allforcharity @BGinGA @T_Chan @Poker Zombie @sheikh617 @ReallyGoodUsername @Nuhockey @nezara @justincarothers @Racer96 @Himewad @Beaniman @davin @RainmanTrail
If it was just selling me stuff, chatting with me, or help me out - thanks! And I know I missed some people, but thank you to you as well.
So, here it is ... some pics of my current "family" of chips as well as my new table.
Big shout out to Tony! My god man - this table. It's amazing!
I was going to wait to post this until later this month when I hit my actual 1 year Pokerversary, but I figured that today was the right day for it. My Chanman table arrived, and I finally feel like I'm a full member of this community. I'm going to try to keep this post short enough so that people will actually read it.
I've been playing poker since college (about 20 years). We started off playing with 100 pennies each and some plastic plinko-style chips. After college, poker dropped off my radar as I moved away from friends and found myself without a crew. And that's the way it stayed until I had kids. Suddenly, the local dads became my group and I decided to take the plunge and spend some serious dough. I purchased dice chips and a folding table top from Bed Bath & Beyond. After a few years, my local game of 5 or 6 people was pretty consistent, so I slowly began upgrading my basement. I added some real "casino weight" 14g AK slugged plastics. And I thought I was hot shit. Eventually, I bought a nice octagon table, and I was set forever.
And the years passed, and I started to wonder if there was something better. My slugged chips weren't feeling as awesome anymore, so I started to do some research online. And that's when I found @Hobbyphilic. A man who I've actually never conversed with, but who I blame for EVERYTHING. And I mean EVERYTHING...
Here's a summary of my year's decent into madness:
- Fell in love with Nevada Jack Skulls and made my first purchase. I called ABC because I was worried they were some fly-by-night company. When a nice lady answered the phone and talked to me about all of the possibilities, I should have know that the rabbit hole had just opened up.
- Shortly after, the Royals Group Buy opened up, and suddenly I have 800 chips on order. Not ready to do full labels yet; spending $500 seemed outrageous at the time.
- Realized I needed storage for the Royals and bought racks and an Apache case and got bust plasti-spraying
- The Royals came out so nice, I built a full custom heads up set with labels from ABC.
- Started to see some of these "Vendors" put up sales, and go myself into a trouble with a RHC 36mm tourny set.
- The chips arrived, and then I was instantly sad that no more were coming. I started participating in group buys for cut cards and dealer buttons.
- Then I somehow persuaded BR Pro to offer us a "new website" sale, and suddenly I had 43mm custom DDLMs
- Started building a RHC mixed cash set
- Realized that I think I like THC better, so I also started building a mixed THC cash set
- Discovered Ultrasonic cleaning and compression oiling
Long Story Short:
This is the first time I've ever felt like I was part of an online community. You all have answered my questions, educated me and held me when I made mistakes. I'd like to call out the following people who have helped get me to this point, whether it was from answering my questions or just selling me some awesome stuff.
@allforcharity @BGinGA @T_Chan @Poker Zombie @sheikh617 @ReallyGoodUsername @Nuhockey @nezara @justincarothers @Racer96 @Himewad @Beaniman @davin @RainmanTrail
If it was just selling me stuff, chatting with me, or help me out - thanks! And I know I missed some people, but thank you to you as well.
So, here it is ... some pics of my current "family" of chips as well as my new table.
Big shout out to Tony! My god man - this table. It's amazing!
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