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Collector's Showcase...Another Winner for PSA...
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I've gotta say, they hit a homerun with me on this one! The options are limitless...just great! I'd love to see the sets people come up with. If they'd really like to go yard, they should allow other companies cards providing there is a scan of the card included...just a thought. I added a fun little group of cards that I will add to each week as time permits. I call it "Apostle's Key Cards of the 80's". An overproduced and overlooked decade that spawned some really great-looking cards! I love the Chicago Bears collection on there as well. Some really cool stuff. I wish people would use some imagination with it instead of posting off-grade Will Clark XRC's in quantity, but to each his own, I guess. I guess that makes me a card-snob. I can live with that! I look forward to seeing some of the gems you guys can dig up and put some theme to 'em. My next set is "post-war lead-off hitters" and shortly thereafter "cards with catching poses" ie: '76 Bench, 86 Pena, etc. Here's a chest bump for PSA!
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You officially made yourself ineligible to date a cheerleader with that explanation
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Another "magic-gathering" in relation to cards would be Guy Berenna's adding of mystery cards to his set that he doesn't own to try to win a registry award. Other magic-gatherings include but are not limited to...
An Orlando basketball game.
A family reunion at Earvin Johnson's house.
The toothpaste foam that gathers around the drain after brushing.
All of these would qualify as magical gatherings.
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Most importantly, Magic the Gathering, is a card strategy game. Don't know a darn thing about it but I know when I see a 20 sumpthin' sitting at a Hold' em table and doing well, 95% of the time they will tell you that they starting "playing cards" with that game and that the strategies are comparable to tournament Hold 'em.
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<< <i>David,
Most importantly, Magic the Gathering, is a card strategy game. Don't know a darn thing about it but I know when I see a 20 sumpthin' sitting at a Hold' em table and doing well, 95% of the time they will tell you that they starting "playing cards" with that game and that the strategies are comparable to tournament Hold 'em.
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You are correct. 3 out of top 14 players at the 2004 World Series of Poker were former Magic the Gathering players...including the Swede who would yell "yaaaaa". The 2nd place finisher David Williams won $3.5 million for 2nd place was one of the top Magic players. Funny thing is that he was banned from Magic for a year for alleged "game manipulation" about 4 years ago. Thomas "Thunder" Keller is another former Magic player who is now a professional poker player (and a WSOP bracelet winner to boot). Keller was well known in the Arizona poker circles and has since moved to Vegas.
Magic is more complex game but the experience w/ general game theory, probabilities, and reading your opponent translates very well to poker. There are a good number of younger players who have "graduated" to poker over the past 5 years where more $$$ can be made. Much can be said for backgammon players as well.
John
I have played against Keller before he moved and numerous others tht have a similar background which is where I picked up the info originally. I saw the WSOP as well and the younger guys did very well this year. I attribute it not to game, which I am sure helps, but more to the competitiveness these guys have and the stamina. Older folks like me prefer the smaller and faster tournaments where it ends in 3 or 4 hours. Setiing done for 12+ hours a day for several days in a row to play seems to require both youth and a competitive streak. But where the heck are they getting the buy-in's ? When I play here, those last few guys all seem to be in their 40's and 50's. Most of the young guys can't control the aggression well enough to last.
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Please link to your set.
The only bummer with the showcase is that it won't put them cards in chronological and alpha order automatically. Adding new cards will require some rearranging.
2005 Origins Old Judge Brown #/20 and Black 1/1s, 2000 Ultimate Victory Gold #/25
2004 UD Legends Bake McBride autos & parallels, and 1974 Topps #601 PSA 9
Rare Grady Sizemore parallels, printing plates, autographs
Nothing on ebay
NO WAY! That set is too cool to not have photos! Fire up the scanner and lets get seein' some Bake! Who's fro was cooler: Nino Espinosa, Jose Cardenal, or Bake McBride? I also agree about the adding of cards. That is an issue with the showcase. Your set is EXACTLY why I love to browse through the showcase. I find sets like yours far more interesting. We all know who number 311 is in 1952 topps and we all know who the guys are who can afford such a card. I like the showcase because it truly reflects collector interest. Mere dollars can't conjure real interest unless you are a very one-dimensional, shallow, lonely person...sounds like one of the posters around here...
Anyway, cool set in the spirit of what I'd like PSA to come to represent. I can help you with a Bake or two for sure. I know I have a spare MINT 82 topps. Email me your address and give me a week or so and I'll dig one out of my sleeved vending stuff.
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