I was on CT and HomePokerTourney back in the earlier days when it was great (2005 - 2010). Got some great advice, met some good people, got me into chipping, and back into playing. Picked up the Samurai Palace chips during a group buy and built out my tournament set of Nevada Jack's Skulls through some wheeling and dealing. Then RL happened, marriage, kid, lots of work travel, and I got away from CT and the hobby for a while.
When I started getting back into the hobby during Covid, I went looking for CT and HPT but both were gone...fortunately I found this lot of degenerates that are more than happy to help me find ways to spend money, along with making a few friends to start playing poker with again.