SteveHNo96
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This title sounds funny but I realized in almost 300 posts I never once formally introduced myself and my history of how I got into poker chips.
Obviously, my name is Steve, I'm 47 years old and live in Upland, California. Why do I live here? Because I moved to Rancho Cucamonga when I was 20 and it sort of became a home for me for 23 years. I left in 2016, only because I had a tough time landing a job and my mother was losing the battle with dementia to a point where she was messing with our finances and I couldn't afford to live in California anymore.
My first experience with actually liking poker chips happened about two weeks after we came to Vegas and my sister-in-law had some chips given to her for free. I honestly don't even remember that much about the chips. They were dice chip-quality and had a fictional casino name hot stamped on them, yellow 50 cents, white $1 and red $5's, maybe you guys know them, I don't remember. The person who gave the chips to her only gave them in five denominations: 50 cents, $1, $5, $10 and $25. I was hooked and looking for chips. Well, the first thing I did was get samples and the samples were either hated (Tiki Kings, OMG did my mom hate them), or loved universally. During a second poker night, I brought a sample set of Wicked Spades and the younger people at the game loved them so much one made me promise to buy an entire set for her so they could use them.
Once I joined this board, I ended up snubbing dice chips and even most china clays in favor of Ceramics and Paulsons, with the exception of a Milano which my mom absolutely loved. I later would shun that one and got my first two sets: A used casino set from a place in Seattle that was well worn but still useable and yes, Wicked Spades.
When my mom died in 2018, I came back to California and made a promise that I would do everything that Mom had wanted to do. I got a job at Amazon and worked for a year. When I'm not collecting poker chips, I love heavy metal and cats and ice hockey and the company of younger women. In fact, one of my favorite girls in the world got a chance to study abroad for 3 1/2 months -- she's going to be in Europe until July. I miss her already, tbh, but she's so sweet. I love her a lot. I also like going to concerts and eating out sometimes, enjoying life and just living in the moment.
I had no intention of buying another chip set unless it was a set of Paulsons (and under $1000) but when I came back and saw the DDLM chips were 15% off and in high demand, I figured awh, what the hell. I probably will be stopping after getting a set of Paulsons, excepting that I do sorta own a set because in honor of my mom, I spent my 2019 tax refund getting a set of the Monaco chips offered by Apache. Anyways, it's a pleasure to meet all of you and I hope for the best going forward. Mom actually saw the poker chips and loved them more than the GPI Elite and even the Milanos which were her favorites, but they sold out on the first run and she died before the second run came to be. Fortunately, I had a little money stashed away for them so I have a set in her honor.
Obviously, my name is Steve, I'm 47 years old and live in Upland, California. Why do I live here? Because I moved to Rancho Cucamonga when I was 20 and it sort of became a home for me for 23 years. I left in 2016, only because I had a tough time landing a job and my mother was losing the battle with dementia to a point where she was messing with our finances and I couldn't afford to live in California anymore.
My first experience with actually liking poker chips happened about two weeks after we came to Vegas and my sister-in-law had some chips given to her for free. I honestly don't even remember that much about the chips. They were dice chip-quality and had a fictional casino name hot stamped on them, yellow 50 cents, white $1 and red $5's, maybe you guys know them, I don't remember. The person who gave the chips to her only gave them in five denominations: 50 cents, $1, $5, $10 and $25. I was hooked and looking for chips. Well, the first thing I did was get samples and the samples were either hated (Tiki Kings, OMG did my mom hate them), or loved universally. During a second poker night, I brought a sample set of Wicked Spades and the younger people at the game loved them so much one made me promise to buy an entire set for her so they could use them.
Once I joined this board, I ended up snubbing dice chips and even most china clays in favor of Ceramics and Paulsons, with the exception of a Milano which my mom absolutely loved. I later would shun that one and got my first two sets: A used casino set from a place in Seattle that was well worn but still useable and yes, Wicked Spades.
When my mom died in 2018, I came back to California and made a promise that I would do everything that Mom had wanted to do. I got a job at Amazon and worked for a year. When I'm not collecting poker chips, I love heavy metal and cats and ice hockey and the company of younger women. In fact, one of my favorite girls in the world got a chance to study abroad for 3 1/2 months -- she's going to be in Europe until July. I miss her already, tbh, but she's so sweet. I love her a lot. I also like going to concerts and eating out sometimes, enjoying life and just living in the moment.
I had no intention of buying another chip set unless it was a set of Paulsons (and under $1000) but when I came back and saw the DDLM chips were 15% off and in high demand, I figured awh, what the hell. I probably will be stopping after getting a set of Paulsons, excepting that I do sorta own a set because in honor of my mom, I spent my 2019 tax refund getting a set of the Monaco chips offered by Apache. Anyways, it's a pleasure to meet all of you and I hope for the best going forward. Mom actually saw the poker chips and loved them more than the GPI Elite and even the Milanos which were her favorites, but they sold out on the first run and she died before the second run came to be. Fortunately, I had a little money stashed away for them so I have a set in her honor.