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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 626870, member: 16948&quot;]So, I&#039;m home now, relaxing on this very warm SoCal afternoon and catching up on my emails, etc.&nbsp; As for the show, it ended up being very successful for me.&nbsp; I mostly sold a lot of certified Lincolns and Indians and some raw material as well, but it seems PCGS coins are still the most popular coins people ask for.&nbsp; I was very busy all day Friday and most of Saturday, even though the crowd wasn&#039;t too thick for a show of this size.&nbsp; I think part of the reason I did well was that I was willing to work with each buyer on my prices - which is necessary during these tougher economic times.&nbsp; I also purchased a super nice 1905 NGC MS66 BN, toned of course!&nbsp; And I picked up my 1873 PCGS MS64 RB Double Liberty T-2 from Rick - WHAAA WHOOO!&nbsp; Tomorrow, I pick up my 1880 off center die clash from Bowers &amp; Merena, then they&#039;re all off to Todd for his magical photography skills!</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me say a little something about the hotel.&nbsp; I stayed at the Schaumburg Rennaisance, which was a 5 star hotel - and it deserved every bit of those stars.&nbsp; Wow, it was a stunningly beautifully designed hotel, with sweeping marble staircases, 5 star food (and prices!), the rooms were beautiful, and the bed was so amazingly soft and cozy!&nbsp; They even had a tv hologram sort of &quot;beamed&quot; into the bathroom mirror with its own remote!&nbsp; Pretty amazing, that&#039;s for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, the casino night!&nbsp; On Thursday after the show, Rick and I went to a casino which is sort of a riverboat about 20 miles from the hotel.&nbsp; Not thinking, we hailed a cab around 5:00 pm.&nbsp; Boy, what a huge mistake!&nbsp; The ride normally would cost around $40, but we ended up paying $70 (incl tip) because we spent the majority of time stuck on the freeway in traffic!&nbsp; I felt like I was back in California!!&nbsp; When we finally got there, we had dinner and drinks at their Fox &amp; Hound pub, and while watching the news, we heard about Michael Jackson&#039;s death - wow, that was quite a shock.&nbsp; No matter what you think about him as a person, he was so extremely talented.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then we headed to the black jack tables but after half an hour, we weren&#039;t doing so well, so we headed to the poker room.&nbsp; They only had no limit games so we bought in for a couple hundred and sat down to play.&nbsp; Rick quickly amassed quite an empire of chips, due to his quiet, unassuming way of playing (and bluffing!).&nbsp; I was holding my own, ahead most of the game.</p><p><br /></p><p>We had a pretty friendly game going, until security suddenly shows up and asks one of the players to get up so they can &quot;talk&quot; to him.&nbsp; After a few moments, they have him rack up his chips, and they escorted him out.&nbsp; Apparently, we were told he was &quot;drinking too much and loosing too much money.&quot; Can you believe it!&nbsp; The player wasn&#039;t obnoxious or rude or behaving badly at all.&nbsp; Well, we soon learned that this particular casino had a lot of &quot;special&quot; rules, like you can&#039;t stand up if you&#039;re in a hand or they will muck your cards, and you have to leave the entire room, not just the table, to use your phone, and several others that I&#039;ve never heard of before.&nbsp; And even some of the players got into &quot;correcting&quot; your play if you didn&#039;t follow the rules to the tee!&nbsp; So much for the friendly game.</p><p><br /></p><p>But Rick and I were still having fun, drinking beer, piling up chips, loosing and winning them back, etc.&nbsp; Later, during one hand, the dealer flopped Q-K-A of clubs.&nbsp; The guy in seat 1 bet and seat 2 folded, Rick (seat 3) folded, seat 4 folded, seat 5 (Tony) called, me in seat 6 folded, as did everyone else.&nbsp; The dealer tuns some red card over, and seat 1 bets again and Tony calls.&nbsp; Then the river card was another K, so seat 1 goes all in, and Tony calls and quickly turns over 10-J of clubs - GEESE - he had a ROYAL FLUSH on the FLOP!&nbsp; The whole table erupted, clapping, hooting, etc.&nbsp; The rest of the casino stopped to see what the shouting was for and many quickly gathered around our table.&nbsp; Wow, I&#039;d never seen a royal flopped before - that was so amazing!&nbsp; And Rick and I are thinking, thank goodness we folded our hands early on!&nbsp; I think the pot ended up being around $200+.&nbsp; (Poor seat 1 went home with his tail between his legs...)</p><p><br /></p><p>Any way, I ended up having a really good show, making some good sales, and many new customers and friends.&nbsp; Several forum members stopped by to introduce themselves and say hi, and I especially enjoyed finally meeting young Stone face to face.&nbsp; What a nice savvy young man.&nbsp; He&#039;s headed to Spain to work on an archeology dig (which is his major at ASU).&nbsp; I know he will gain some great experiences from this adventure, and I wish him all the best.</p><p><br /></p><p>So that&#039;s my MidAmerica show experience - I think I will do this show again next year.&nbsp; Chicago is a great venue, and easy to get to from OC.&nbsp; I will post photos of my newps as soon as I get them back from Todd.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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