My story starts the same as most, I accidentally brought home a chip but won that trip so I started bringing home a one dollar chip every time I won. Then I started bringing home a one dollar chip win or lose. I was a seller on ebay and started looking at all the chips out there and spotted one of the Tropicana Stadium Chips. Being a big Yankee fan, I had to find out if there was a Yankee Stadium chip. I googled it and found a bunch of chip web sites and started emailing the sellers. One of them pointed me to the chip board. I made my first post on this board on May 1, 2008..
http://www.thechipboard.com/archives/archives.pl/bid/318/page/1/md/read/id/714360/sbj/stadium-chips/
I did pick up the chips I was looking for and then started reading the board. I was hooked. So it was the people on the board that I fell in love with and got me to join the club.
Last year was the first convention I was able to make and definitely wont be my last.
As for the octagonal chips, I have Andy Hughes to blame for that. He posted a pic of his collection and I was instantly hooked.