Where Have all the Chips Gone? (6 Viewers)

[ekricket]

i don't know if it's necessarily a good thing, but i'm learning today you really are an amazing troll. you are a baritone and soprano all rolled up into one

Jeff cracks me up. Whining about how hard it is yet ask him where he lives and how much money he makes.

 

[BarrieJ3]

No whines here.

Not sure how me providing insight into standards of living and Americans access and ability to obtain home ownership, the cornerstone of generational wealth building, being impossible at the ages today it was for generations passes = me whining.

Not sure how me quoting you contradicting yourself over and over = me whining.

 

[ekricket]

No whines here.

Not sure how me providing insight into standards of living and Americans access and ability to obtain home ownership, the cornerstone of generational wealth building, being impossible at the ages today it was for generations passes = me whining.

Not sure how me quoting you contradicting yourself over and over = me whining.

You do not speak for the masses, no matter how “middle class” you think you are. You parrot what you cherry pick to support whatever version of America you may hold in your head.

Nobody on a poker chip site is struggling. They would be at work instead.

I think the fact we can afford to have luxury poker chip sites kinda speaks for itself as to the wealth around.

 

[quintooo]

This thread is taking about the assholes who buy up all the chips and don’t sell them (I’m an asshole).

at least you felt your chips

 

[BarrieJ3]

Le sigh. Not sure why personal life is brought up. Weird but fine.

Yes, I would say I’m successful. Extremely lucky. American dream as it were. I am that kid who grew up in poverty to a single mom with no college degrees on either side of my family. Moved and changed schools over 15 times.

Fast forward and end of the story is a beautiful, ultra talented wife that dwarfs all of my own capabilities, 2 brilliant, sensitive children, and was successful in my own endeavors and did what I set out to do, starting a company that solved a problem for people, created jobs for others, and successfully exited (I worked a little hard, my wife has worked as hard as any human I’ve ever met, but is also the smartest human I’ve ever met).

Now as I figure out what the next round of life will be, I donate my time to our local town and school and sports programs.

I’m not sure what in my story prevents me from speaking up on access to basic needs, difficulties that current and future generations face, housing crises/shortage, or any similar topics. I believe that you can do well, and still be mindful, empathetic, and understanding.

It sure seem like someone’s crying about others being successful and gate keeping that someone in a certain financial bracket can’t care about those in others. Pretty sure I’m allowed to care about humans regardless of tax bracket I or they are in. What a sad view of life.

 

[raynmanas]

ask him where he lives

new hampshire?

 

[BarrieJ3]

new hampshire?

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Second only to Abu Dhabi as the financial capital of the world of course!

 

[ekricket]

I am only concerned about the world we are leaving behind and that life is as good as it can possibly be for those that come after.

I am afraid I have misjudged you. All those times when you disappeared for long stretches - you weren’t absconding with chips or money, you were in Africa digging water wells and had no way to communicate!

Thank you for your service and sacrifice for the world! You are truly an amazing

 

[BarrieJ3]

I’m good. Lest us be judged by our actions and public comments, I’m happy to (proudly) stand by mine.

I’m not perfect as a chipper, husband, or dad in any light (pm me, I can give you way better ammo than coming at my wife, how I spend some of our budget on others, or a 5 year old chipping issue).

I’m sorry you’re mad your times were hard. Or that mine weren’t as hard. Or harder? Or that I did as well as I did? Idk I can’t keep up.

PCF threads definitely aren’t the right place to hash it out and provide these thoughts, but given our world, I think it’s fair to correct misinformation, especially as it relates to generational gaps and affordability.

May we all obtain the chips of our dreams, may Booyah bring more wsop hauls, may Tcr bring cheap paulsons, and may poor Pippa get his cpcs and cut cards.

Imma watch the laker game now, peace!

 

[ekricket]

I’m good. Lest us be judged by our actions and public comments, I’m happy to (proudly) stand by mine.

I’m not perfect as a chipper, husband, or dad in any light (pm me, I can give you way better ammo than coming at my wife, how I spend some of our budget on others, or a 5 year old chipping issue).

I’m sorry you’re mad your times were hard. Or that mine weren’t as hard. Or harder? Or that I did as well as I did? Idk I can’t keep up.

PCF threads definitely aren’t the right place to hash it out and provide these thoughts, but given our world, I think it’s fair to correct misinformation, especially as it relates to generational gaps and affordability.

May we all obtain the chips of our dreams, may Booyah bring more wsop hauls, may Tcr bring cheap paulsons, and may poor Pippa get his cpcs and cut cards.

Imma watch the laker game now, peace!

Thank you for your virtuous signals! The world is brighter.

If you don’t want to hash things out here, don’t bring them up here. It’s that simple.

 

[BigGrizz]

Thank you for your virtuous signals! The world is brighter.

If you don’t want to hash things out here, don’t bring them up here. It’s that simple.

I'll walk away now too but I'm sorry you're so bitter. I hope you find happiness and a healthier way to communicate with others. I hope you can see no one is attacking you and you have no need to attack others as you do. I hope you find personal growth.

Out

 

[ekricket]

I'll walk away now too but I'm sorry you're so bitter. I hope you find happiness and a healthier way to communicate with others. I hope you can see no one is attacking you and you have no need to attack others as you do. I hope you find personal growth.

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You are very selective in your reading comprehension if you don’t think I’ve been attacked in this thread.

How much do you make?

 

[ekricket]

I’ll take Kevin for $50

We may have a winner here….

 

[FestiveKnight]

Kevin’s completely trolling per usual

I'll walk away now too but I'm sorry you're so bitter. I hope you find happiness and a healthier way to communicate with others. I hope you can see no one is attacking you and you have no need to attack others as you do. I hope you find personal growth.

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He’s simply not well socialized enough to participate like a normal person on a forum. As Barrie put it early. It’s WEIRD. I mean this is a guy claiming to be a grown man with all this experience and yet we have a raging child with no ability to engage in cool-headed discussion and no interest in it either.

I’m sure a jury of his peers would find that his comments are more frequently negative/detract from the thread than anyone else on here. His extreme combativeness is childish and embarrassing and detrimental to this community.

I have heard from a number of folks that he is pleasant in person. We met briefly once but not in a social context so I can’t comment. But Kevin’s presence of PCF is deeply deleterious to the site.

He likely needed therapy a long time ago as it appears he is unable to engage in discussion without narcissistically assuming everything is an attack on him and his way of life. He drives every thread he participates in towards anger while wielding his hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance to stymie any real discussion.

It’s really a shame. Really really a shame.

 

[raynmanas]

How much do you make?

sorry, but this is just unfair attacking. we can just look back at his original statement on the matter, which is very fairly interpreted as intellectual curiosity. so why are you so intent on being confrontational about it?

Honestly, I would love to know demographic info about the people here. What is the average age? Median income? etc.

 

[ekricket]

He’s simply not well socialized enough to participate like a normal person on a forum. As Barrie put it early. It’s WEIRD. I mean this is a guy claiming to be a grown man with all this experience and yet we have a raging child with no ability to engage in cool-headed discussion and no interest in it either.

I’m sure a jury of his peers would find that his comments are more frequently negative/detract from the thread than anyone else on here. His extreme combativeness is childish and embarrassing and detrimental to this community.

I have heard from a number of folks that he is pleasant in person. We met briefly once but not in a social context so I can’t comment. But Kevin’s presence of PCF is deeply deleterious to the site.

He likely needed therapy a long time ago as it appears he is unable to engage in discussion without narcissistically assuming everything is an attack on him and his way of life. He drives every thread he participates in towards anger while wielding his hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance to stymie any real discussion.

It’s really a shame. Really really a shame.

@BigGrizz

I hope you can see no one is attacking you

 

[ekricket]

sorry, but this is just unfair attacking. we can just look back at his original statement on the matter, which is very fairly interpreted as intellectual curiosity. so why are you so intent on being confrontational about it?

I’m just interested in knowing how much is “too little” to afford Paulsons. Just intellectual curiosity. If we knew what the bar was we can work on it. It’s the same thing he’s working on.

 

[raynmanas]

I’m just interested in knowing how much is “too little” to afford Paulsons. Just intellectual curiosity. If we knew what the bar was we can work on it. It’s the same thing he’s working on.

eh ok i get what everyone else is saying now. it was fun for a bit.

 

[ekricket]

eh ok i get what everyone else is saying now. it was fun for a bit.

Yes it was. I was stuck in the airport for six hours so it helped kill the time.

 

[TripleRangeMerger]

I have to assume a lot of people here:

2. Have amazing, very high paying jobs in the private sector.
Or 3. Are retired (or near) and can use disposable investments on a hobby.

I did a bit of digging because I do wonder about the demographics here from time to time. Looks like there have been a few threads that broached the subject.

For work, lots of forum members were fairly open about it in this ten year old thread: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/what-do-you-do.13471/

Funnily enough, the first reply on that thread already makes a crack about what people must be doing for work to afford the expensive sets of the time. I wonder what those would have been, might be a fun Wayback Machine exercise.

For demographics, I found a few polls from 2016, 2019, and 2024 that I inserted below. Seems like across nearly a decade, the peak active years for forum participants is/was mid thirties to mid forties.

Here's 2016:

2019:

and 2024:

I'm still holding out hope for a new player to enter the low-mid tier bespoke compression clay market.

 

[elemeno]

What the fuck happened lol

You may as well give up then. You are screwed. There’s not much for your generation to continue forward with I’m afraid. Not sure why you even want to continue.

Is that what you are looking for? Do you need “revenge” cause somebody had the misfortune of being born in a different time than you?

I like helping people out. Financially or whatever.

But some people burn their bridges. You sit around and call us old fuckers, blame us for being born when we were, working hard and saving like it was a sin.
I’m not ashamed of anything I’ve done to get where I’m at. I’m enjoying the hell out of cruises like this.


If you don’t like how I live or what I do with my money all I can say is fuck off. Go live in your shithole and commiserate your misery.
One thing I’m laughing like hell at is all of your wife’s money you waste. So much retirement going into the trash. I’m hoping that someday when you guys are in your 60’s and she’s still having to work to support your deadbeat ass you remember these days and the sheer volume of money you wasted on buying people’s temporary friendship.View attachment 1668409View attachment 1668410View attachment 1668411

Hold the phone. Are you arguing incessantly on PCF during a vacation?

 

[ekricket]

Are you arguing incessantly on PCF during a vacation?

???? I vacation for a living.
Every day is Saturday in my world.
And sadly no, I’m not on government assistance.

How much do you make a year?

 

[Booshme]

You are very selective in your reading comprehension if you don’t think I’ve been attacked in this thread.

How much do you make?

@BigGrizz makes friends, and he’s made a friend in me hahaha. Also, I may not be poor, but I can’t afford a 6k Paulson set just yet. I wish someone would speak up for us in-the-middle folk!
Anyways, was a fun read, I hope prices go down, I’d like to buy a rack of IOC KCs for under $400 this year I won’t bitch about it though, I’m happy with my DDLM sets and my custom-labeled Milanos in the meantime

 

[ekricket]

Now as I figure out what the next round of life will be, I donate my time to our local town and school and sports programs.

I’m not sure what in my story prevents me from speaking up on access to basic needs, difficulties that current and future generations face, housing crises/shortage, or any similar topics. I believe that you can do well, and still be mindful, empathetic, and understanding.

It sure seem like someone’s crying about others being successful and gate keeping that someone in a certain financial bracket can’t care about those in others. Pretty sure I’m allowed to care about humans regardless of tax bracket I or they are in. What a sad view of life.

I wish someone would speak up for us in-the-middle folk!

I believe we have found your savior! Jeff has gladly appointed himself as the defender of the unjust and vows to level the playing field.

 

[Booshme]

I believe we have found your savior! Jeff has gladly appointed himself as the defender of the unjust and vows to level the playing field.

Hahaha, my man I would hate a level playing field. I welcome the burdens life has thrust upon me

 

[ekricket]

Hahaha, my man I would hate a level playing field. I welcome the burdens life has thrust upon me

You are going to get help whether you want it or not, because somebody else has determined your needs and speaks for all of you. He knows the world, he’s grown up in it and is all sage and shit. Not that stupid old man sage, but a younger hipper version that speaks the lingo without all that wisdom crap clogging shit up with realism.

 

[Booshme]

You are going to get help whether you want it or not, because somebody else has determined your needs and speaks for all of you. He knows the world, he’s grown up in it and is all sage and shit. Not that stupid old man sage, but a younger hipper version that speaks the lingo without all that wisdom crap clogging shit up with realism.

I’m just grateful to be alive man

 

[LeGold]

When I first found this place I had my wife convinced I was having an affair with the amount time I was spending on my phone reading pcf

Man, I bet you sometimes wish you did have an affair instead of this here

 

[LeGold]

None of you could afford the stuff WW bought anyway, really his spree into the high end stuff provided funds to lock up a lot of the middle stuff.

A lot of it I'd wager we could, until he singlehandedly drove up the prices by a) remove availability and b) offer crazy money never paid before for the same stuff.

 

[Eriks]

Man, I bet you sometimes wish you did have an affair instead of this here

Haha, for sure (probably goes for her too). Best and worst discovery ever.