Atlas Games With Joey - Owner, Rick Chong's Right Hand Man

In the fourth episode of The Match Slip, we talk with Joey from Atlas Games located in City of Industry, California based at Frank and Sons. Owner, Rick Chong, described Joey to me as his right-hand man who handles most of the business. Joey has been with Rick from the beginning and handles the Magic: The Gathering card buys and sales. He also builds a lot of Commander decks for customers.

While Atlas Games is not a traditional game store in the sense that they don't have events, they still have a large inventory of Magic: The Gathering cards and have access to almost any card you could need. The store which is located at Booth #438 at Frank and Sons is only open three days a week. However, this is not a decision of Atlas Games and rather when Frank and Sons is open to the public. To compensate, Atlas Games also sells online through TCG Player.

Joey and his fellow employees are all part-time workers and he notes to me that everyone is a utility player at Atlas Games. While Joey has another full-time job, he's been able to utilize his experience with his full-time job and apply it when working at Atlas Games.

Being located in Southern California has led to celebrity interactions with fans and fellow players of the game like Post Malone and Cassius Marsh.

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