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Found this forum about a month ago. I've never been a big poker player or huge gambler. Vegas was a fun playground where I had a budget and treated gambling as a fun passtime. I'd have a set budget (this started in the days of physical payouts on slots). I'd change part of my budget to chips or coins or whatever. If coins for slots, I'd grab 2 buckets. One empty, one with the budget. I'd play from the one bucket and any winnings would go into the second bucket. At the end of the budget (or when I decided to quit), any money in the second budget was "free money" because I had already spent my entertainment money for the night. Some nights would end with a nice positive. Some with a slight loss compared to the starting, and some would be a big loss. But I didn't care. I treated the gambling budget the same as a night out. You don't have a huge dinner and count the money spent as a kid. It was the cost of the evening. Going to a show was a cost you paid for the entertainment. So gambling was a fun night of entertainment. If I spent $100 and walked away with $0, $50, or $750, it didn't matter. I paid for my entertainment and any money after that was a free bonus.
So that's how I got started with Vegas, and I treated poker or roulette the same. Playing a game and just enjoying it. But I always enjoyed checking out the chip designs. Just never thought past that.
Then Casino Royale came out. I've been watching bond movies since I was a little kid. I have no idea what my first bond movie was. My father watched them since before I was born, so I remember seeing a Sean Connery movie, but Roger Moore was my bond as I grew up in the 70's (1968 dob). I was always a bond fan, but I was more into Star Wars and Star Trek. I'd read a few bond novels. But Casino Royale was when my interest changed and I started looking at the Fandom side of bond. Yes I owned a bond Aston Martin toy as early as 1973, but that was about it.
I started checking into the watches. Into the Breitling Connery wore, the seikos Moore had. And then the Omegas Craig wore.
I also enjoyed the poker in casino royale and that led to looking into poker sets. The first casino set I ordered was the Amazon garbage that in no way resembled the chips I had used in Vegas. So I started looking into chip quality and types.
That led to this forum. And then to Apache. Got a sample set from Apache. I liked them and then decided to start ordering more. That led to the curiosity about the different types of chips.
So the user name is just a tongue in cheek reference to the fact that it was bond that got me into the idea of collecting chips. Thanks for creating such a great forum!
So that's how I got started with Vegas, and I treated poker or roulette the same. Playing a game and just enjoying it. But I always enjoyed checking out the chip designs. Just never thought past that.
Then Casino Royale came out. I've been watching bond movies since I was a little kid. I have no idea what my first bond movie was. My father watched them since before I was born, so I remember seeing a Sean Connery movie, but Roger Moore was my bond as I grew up in the 70's (1968 dob). I was always a bond fan, but I was more into Star Wars and Star Trek. I'd read a few bond novels. But Casino Royale was when my interest changed and I started looking at the Fandom side of bond. Yes I owned a bond Aston Martin toy as early as 1973, but that was about it.
I started checking into the watches. Into the Breitling Connery wore, the seikos Moore had. And then the Omegas Craig wore.
I also enjoyed the poker in casino royale and that led to looking into poker sets. The first casino set I ordered was the Amazon garbage that in no way resembled the chips I had used in Vegas. So I started looking into chip quality and types.
That led to this forum. And then to Apache. Got a sample set from Apache. I liked them and then decided to start ordering more. That led to the curiosity about the different types of chips.
So the user name is just a tongue in cheek reference to the fact that it was bond that got me into the idea of collecting chips. Thanks for creating such a great forum!
