Net54--A Crazy Game of Poker
 

I will say what everybody is thinking but we all dance around it. We all want to know what is in each others collections! Whether it is to determine rarity of a certain card(s) you own or to try to find what you are looking for to buy from a fellow board member, there is nothing we would like more than to have you list and provide scans of your entire collection. Just look at all of the threads that try to just that: "month pick-up," "show your BLANK cards," "Best deal you ever made," "how did you do in BLANK auction," "show your best card."

No point here just an observation...Enjoy!

I'm not sure that's the motivation behind those threads.

maybe to understand why people either prefer to share their collections with everyone or keep them private?

What do you collect, Chris?

I'm not telling...

Just kidding...I collect T206 cards. Can't afford the other desirable tobacco issues though I really love them (i.e. Kotton, Mino, TTT, Red Cross, Cullivan's, Victory, etc.) I have dabbled in Caramel (Croft's) but just can't really get into them...

I think you need to be more careful employing the pronoun "we" lest you be mistaken for Wharton's favorite son(s).:) It's a pretty broad assertion that everybody is part of some big poker game. Some guys are, for sure, information is money, and they want to kill you on the price of that last card you need. I just like seeing cards and I don't mind showing my collection either. Sometimes somebody swoops in and wants a card and I'm cool with it (sometimes), mostly I get compliments. Nothing more to it than that.

When used in my original post, "we" shall be defined as "myself and like-minded board members."

For those of us holding a bad hand and virtually no chips, the poker game takes on an entirely different perspective. :)

Methinks that the tenured group has a risky strategy in this game of going all in on every hand; sometimes they have the hand, but 9 times out of 10 they don't. As you were reading, yet another player folded his cards to their bluff.

A man without hand is not a man.

I'm all in !!!!!! wait a seven-douce..... I fold!!!

I believe "WE" has been Net54 trademarked by a certain group of self-idoling army of 1.

I feel the same. Other than for security reasons, I cannot for the life of me understand why collectors would not want to show off their cards. A large percentage of mine (other than multiple graded sets) are available for anyone's perusal at the link below. If anything, my interests are available for anyone to see and often I get offers to buy cards based on what is already in my collection. Why the cloak and dagger stuff?

Agreed, I love to share what I have in certain themed threads and really enjoy seeing what floats everyone else's boat. Geez, its baseball cards, really. No poker here.

Very ironic that this thread got started today. I just organized scans and photos of my collection on Picasa. I'm kind of surprised at how excited I am to show people. Hope you guys enjoy!

http://picasaweb.google.com/justinfung11

Justin - great stuff - thanks for sharing. Love the M116 Wags!

Very nice and thanks for sharing. I really like the Turkey Lord and Niles.

Wow! Nice Cobb (green). I have one at the same grade...But doesn't even belong in the same ball park based on eye appeal.

Thanks a lot Matt, Michael and PWeso!

Most of the people I know only want to talk about the Yao game used jersey, haha.

Love the T206's. Very Nice.

If others do not want to share the contents of their collections for whatever reason, I can understand that.

As for me, my modest collection is available for all to see in my sigline at any time. I've got nothing to hide...;)

Wow nice collection, nice to see all those Chief Benders !! Those Kobe shoes are crazy, no laces ? I guess I haven't ever seen those before, I love KG, hate Kobe but he got game !!

I've always felt that Claude had nothing to hide as well. Justin and Tom S., thank you for giving us a peek into your collection. Regrettably, I can't say the same about Claude!

Lovely Day...

Make the Bigs. Live the Dream. Forget to button your fly on your baseball card. Something not quite right with this scenario.

But imagine forgetting 2 years in a row!

I understand why some people want to keep their collections private but I'm not one of those people. I don't do a great job of keeping it up to date, but much of it is there in my Sig for anyone to see.

And as Jeff L said, advertising my collection has resulted in people contacting me with offers for cards they think I may be interested in.

Oh, those crazy "free Love" 60's!

Claude must have been classified as a "reliever"

Hmmm..I wonder if those photos were taken on the same day and Topps just used them for two years....Or Claude did it on purpose. :)

bingo; the wear/stiching on the glove is the same, his whole uniform, undershirt etc. is identical and he's even got the same pair of stylish glasses, which clearly should not have survived a full year on anyone's face.

Hey, I like those glasses ...

???? Why????

Rob - did you PM him after you posted to make sure he posted those, or is Jim's spidey sense so in tune that whenever you make a glasses comment, he somehow knows?
:)

BTW, your glasses were not as bad as Raymond's. I think it's the color of his rims that does it.

No need for me to send a PM. Jim knows his henchmen.

Jim and Rob are the new Magic Man and El Diablo.

I cannot tell you how important having a website to show all my autographed pre-war cards has been to (a) getting offers to acquire new pre-war autographed cards; and (b) getting people to share scans of pre-war autographed cards that I had never seen before.

Without a doubt, sharing one's collection leads to growing one's collection -- if for nothing else than inspiration.