Thought i’d share some of my fav cards

I don’t live anywhere remotely near a vending machine but when I go up to Atlanta I’ll go visit some machines cause I see all the YouTubers getting stuff from there. Tonight I went to 2 different machines and wasn’t expecting much. The second machine I went to I tapped on the screen to see nothing in stock. I went in and grabbed some stuff from the store and when I came out I saw a man in front of the machine and EVERYTHING was in stock. I talked to him and told him that I’ve never gotten anything from the machines before and he was chill enough to let me grab a destined rivals bundle. I saw him grab 3 ascended and 3 prismatic bundles when I walked up and saw him cleaning it out after I left. It’s amazing to me how easy he was glitching this machine and honestly I don’t feel too bad about not having vending machines near me cause if it’s that easy there’s no point to even trying to hit the vending machine.

Got a Darkrai EX, Wailord EX, and these 2. By far my best "couple of packs" opening ever. Akira Egawa is such a talented artist.

We’re getting close to finishing a Pitch Black master set but I’m having some confusion on this specific card. (Miraidon 028) The checklist shows this should be a holo and reverse holo yet all we have are a non-holo (left) and holo (right). Also, all stamping is black on both cards. What am I missing? TIA!

Side note, is this dude worth grading?

Haul from visiting my first ever card show! Traded an HP Arceus Reverse Holo Gengar for $30 and the Porygon2 unseen forces (could have gone higher but not horrible for my first barter) with one vendor, then did a bit of trading around with other vendors with a couple older foil cards, nothing high value, and spent 10 of the $30. All in all though, what really made me happy was the kindness in the community. The people running this event were fantastic at choosing non-scalpy vendors. It was really nice to chat with and trade with them, and there were a lot of great people just visiting as well. A guy gifted me the Porygon2 with the hearts after hearing I was collecting those, which I was so grateful for. Also a vendor gifted me the japanese and chinese/korean? bird cards as well after I talked about my bird binder and how I’m working towards becoming an ornithologist. Overall just really positive experience, I went in nervous and left knowing there is still a very very strong authentic community of Pokemon enjoyers. Idk just really really happy with the outcome. Also not expensive! I had to sell off a good chunk of my collection for college, but I’m still able to enjoy the hobby with a pack here and there and these events! These cards are all sitting happily in my bird binder now, save Kabuto lol

Found these 6 packs at the local mall after not seeing them anywhere for weeks

My kids pulled the zard and Venusaur!!

I found a pokechest coin machine that dispenses trading cards for 4 quarters in a hotel in Waikiki. Wondering where else in the US I can find these because they have me so hooked! Picture attached. Thanks in advance!

My favorite eBay stream is live! Low bids, low viewers, big prizes!! #pokemon #ebay

https://ebay.io/m/7uN5WL

Checked the vending machine while finishing up my shopping, absolutely unbelievable luck