Been lurking around this place for quite a bit. Time for me to post and get that count up so I can give you folks my $$$ via classifieds and group buys. Wish I would’ve got in on some of those Fantasy sets! Anyways, here is a quick outline of my journey. 2003 started playing Texas Hold ‘Em. Like most everyone……cheap plastic chips. A few short years later came the dice chips, we built the first 8ft padded rail table, then the molded 4 aces chips, then on to coin inlays. My group got real tired of those inserts coming out and hubcapping around the table. So, in 2008 I went looking for a quality casino style chip. My research ended with pokerchipmania.com (no longer in business?) and Paulson chips. I purchased 1000ct WTHC for a whopping .99cent per chip. My poker buddies thought I had a screw loose. $1000 for a set of poker chips was madness!
Back to the timeline. Kids, sports, life and work hit all of us and the weekly poker night became a memory. This was around early 2011. For the next 11 years those poker chips sat in my garage in a bucket. I would play in Vegas each year and play some in and around OK casinos. 2021-22 arrived and I was cruising eBay when I came across that familiar Paulson chip. $12 for one chip? Wtf? This can’t be? I, then found this place, to do more research. Soon after…..my son and I built another table together, turned an empty bedroom into a poker room, washed those chips and got the fellas fired up again! We don’t play weekly anymore but get together at the end of each month for a $2/$5 NLH game or a combo tourney and Dealer calls it $1/$2 cash game night. My son and his college buddies are playing often during the summer and holiday breaks. Nice to be back in the action!
Back to the timeline. Kids, sports, life and work hit all of us and the weekly poker night became a memory. This was around early 2011. For the next 11 years those poker chips sat in my garage in a bucket. I would play in Vegas each year and play some in and around OK casinos. 2021-22 arrived and I was cruising eBay when I came across that familiar Paulson chip. $12 for one chip? Wtf? This can’t be? I, then found this place, to do more research. Soon after…..my son and I built another table together, turned an empty bedroom into a poker room, washed those chips and got the fellas fired up again! We don’t play weekly anymore but get together at the end of each month for a $2/$5 NLH game or a combo tourney and Dealer calls it $1/$2 cash game night. My son and his college buddies are playing often during the summer and holiday breaks. Nice to be back in the action!
