Beaniman
Two Pair
Just now registered, been lurking for a few weeks. Not much to say other than I'm amazed by the amount of info I have already found here.
How I got here...
I used to host a game twice a week, nothing fancy 1/2 200 buyin table cap for several years. Fast forward a couple of overseas sea duty tours and I hadn't played in a long while. Recently found a regular game and realized how much I missed hosting and playing! So I needed to replace my Dice chips, obviously right?
Now I'm a little older and have more appreciation for nice things that make me happy, could care less if the guests like it! I quickly realized amazon had all kinds of chips and didn't know why some were 10¢ or 60¢ etc...
That's about when I found hobbyphilic youtube channel and consumed every video he has in an evening and a half. Most of them I've rewatched, then presto. I have a new hobby just waiting for all the fun price checking, research, education & min/maxing to join my long list of existing ones with the added bonus of facilitating more social gatherings and of course Poker.
Poker chips now join the ranks of Model painting /cigars /scotch /burbon /video games & such.
I'm ordering a fairly budget set of outlaws for some tournaments (dont want cash game chips use in tournaments) and trying to decide on a 500 starter of dropa discs vs dia de los mertos for a nicer set for cash.
Any recommendations or insight is always welcome. If I could ask two questions right away they would be; 1. are apollonchips dropa discs the same as brpro's? They are significantly cheaper and I only recently learned some companies offer different blanks. 2. What's the coolest random fact or thing you learned from here that you didn't expect or surprised you?
How I got here...
I used to host a game twice a week, nothing fancy 1/2 200 buyin table cap for several years. Fast forward a couple of overseas sea duty tours and I hadn't played in a long while. Recently found a regular game and realized how much I missed hosting and playing! So I needed to replace my Dice chips, obviously right?
Now I'm a little older and have more appreciation for nice things that make me happy, could care less if the guests like it! I quickly realized amazon had all kinds of chips and didn't know why some were 10¢ or 60¢ etc...
That's about when I found hobbyphilic youtube channel and consumed every video he has in an evening and a half. Most of them I've rewatched, then presto. I have a new hobby just waiting for all the fun price checking, research, education & min/maxing to join my long list of existing ones with the added bonus of facilitating more social gatherings and of course Poker.
Poker chips now join the ranks of Model painting /cigars /scotch /burbon /video games & such.
I'm ordering a fairly budget set of outlaws for some tournaments (dont want cash game chips use in tournaments) and trying to decide on a 500 starter of dropa discs vs dia de los mertos for a nicer set for cash.
Any recommendations or insight is always welcome. If I could ask two questions right away they would be; 1. are apollonchips dropa discs the same as brpro's? They are significantly cheaper and I only recently learned some companies offer different blanks. 2. What's the coolest random fact or thing you learned from here that you didn't expect or surprised you?