I get out of the poker table building / forum hosting / chip collecting scene for a decade and it goes to hell! A landslide of changes across basically every single part of the gaming, supply, industry, chips, manufacturing, and internet places to call home.
Barry closed up shop. Ten finally ran everyone off with his pool of crazy. Keen's site continued on a steady nosedive after I split and started mine (the OG PC Potato Poker Table Plans) then morphing into BYOC then finally Perfect Mancave. (that of which I sold / got tired of being a forum admin). A few other forums and such have since closed up or moved on to be taken over by the spam bots. Seems like there's only a few that survived, or were created to fill the void. So hattip of respect to whomever is running this place. It's a labor of love.
That being said, I see a few familiar forum name/avatars and vendors. Good to see Apache still around, Chanman, Gene at ABC, HPC, SunFly, Chip Room, etc.
Been probably 10 or so years since I was really active in the poker community on a daily basis on the table, chip, forum, etc. side. Still play cards once in a while, but not a regular at a tanble or local cardroom. I like to think I help another guy make his car payment or two at the usual suspects random home games.
I was sorting out some boxes from the last move and kept shuffling over old sets of poker chips I was holding on to and figured I'd poke around to see what the market is like for them. They've been collecting dust for 10 years. Would rather avoid eBay if I had to, and the search for active poker / chip forums has drastically changed from days long ago. Maybne one day I'll getmy ass in gear, insulate the garage to host games again and pull the tables out of the raters. Michigan winters dictate otherwise without heat in a garage.
Anyways, good to see you all. I'll churn through the n00b conditions on a new forum, and hopefully find a few familar faces and perhaps a new home for a couple sets of chips.
Quads
Barry closed up shop. Ten finally ran everyone off with his pool of crazy. Keen's site continued on a steady nosedive after I split and started mine (the OG PC Potato Poker Table Plans) then morphing into BYOC then finally Perfect Mancave. (that of which I sold / got tired of being a forum admin). A few other forums and such have since closed up or moved on to be taken over by the spam bots. Seems like there's only a few that survived, or were created to fill the void. So hattip of respect to whomever is running this place. It's a labor of love.
That being said, I see a few familiar forum name/avatars and vendors. Good to see Apache still around, Chanman, Gene at ABC, HPC, SunFly, Chip Room, etc.
Been probably 10 or so years since I was really active in the poker community on a daily basis on the table, chip, forum, etc. side. Still play cards once in a while, but not a regular at a tanble or local cardroom. I like to think I help another guy make his car payment or two at the usual suspects random home games.
I was sorting out some boxes from the last move and kept shuffling over old sets of poker chips I was holding on to and figured I'd poke around to see what the market is like for them. They've been collecting dust for 10 years. Would rather avoid eBay if I had to, and the search for active poker / chip forums has drastically changed from days long ago. Maybne one day I'll getmy ass in gear, insulate the garage to host games again and pull the tables out of the raters. Michigan winters dictate otherwise without heat in a garage.
Anyways, good to see you all. I'll churn through the n00b conditions on a new forum, and hopefully find a few familar faces and perhaps a new home for a couple sets of chips.
Quads