...Even More Fanatics Live!

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 It may be getting redundant, but the sheer number of cool cards I'm getting from these Fanatics Live warrants multiple posts. Spoiler alert, this won't be the last one.  The latest additions to my collection came from yet another Liverpool spot in a Topps Chrome EPL break. One thing to keep in mind is that as breakers get their product in, they launch a lot of streams for the product releasing. Once that inventory wears off, there are far fewer breaks to choose from. This also seems to push the spots up in value so I'm starting to glean the best approach is to have money ready to get into many breaks when the product first releases. There are some conspiracy theorists that also believe the biggest product hits tend to come in the first couple of days as Topps and Panini like people to get hyped. Anyhow, my Liverpool spot only hit had three hits, and overall I feel that Liverpool has been relatively a tough spot to hit from. The good news is that my three hits were really nice, one being a Robbie Fowler (Liverpool legend) gold auto /50, a massive extremely rare Helix case hit of Aleksander Isak (rare as in 1 in like 13 or 14 hobby CASES), and a Trent Kone-Doherty rookie card /50. I did not get a single other numbered card.



I also partook in another break with a somewhat cheaper spot, Newcastle. I only hit one auto (numbered /99) and a few numbered cards. The autograph is of current forward Jacob Ramsey.



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