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The 90 Million In Chips From Wsop


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Just wondering about that. I'm assuming they're dated from this year, so do they sell them?Just thinking if I was someone like Robert Varkoni, I'd have wanted to keep the chips so when I'm back at home playing in my $1/2 no limit (100 max of course) buy in game I can say "Hey...let's use the chips from when I won the World Series of Poker."With 90 million chips (value), how many chips did they manufacture for the event? If it's Paulson, wonder how good of a deal they got.Alf? You are certainly the chip man here. Any clue?

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I believe that they reuse the chips, but they added some higher denomination chips this year due to the increased attendance.
Oh..Didn't know that. Thanks..Had looked on ebay and saw the "replica" chips for sale, and thought they had dates on them. Assumed the WSOP for 06 would be labeled as such.Thanks Dane..
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I went to Vegas in August 2004, and to Binions with the sole intent of buying some of the actual chips from the WSOP that year. At Binions they had "WSOP Chips" on sale in the gift shop but all they were were lammers from satellites. I kept looking for them but failed that mission

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I wondered the same thing actually. Seems like they'd use new chips every year. I think the winner should get the chips.

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I wondered the same thing actually. Seems like they'd use new chips every year. I think the winner should get the chips.
There's just no way some of those 100K chips wouldn't have found their way into my pockets if I had won. Hell, with Gold's chiplead I would have been swiping them from my own stack during breaks. What's a million when you have 40?
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There's just no way some of those 100K chips wouldn't have found their way into my pockets if I had won. Hell, with Gold's chiplead I would have been swiping them from my own stack during breaks. What's a million when you have 40?
For real. I mean at least a nice 1000pc set out of them would be cool.
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The Savior posts in the wrong thread?
My child, I did not want to ask my question where those viewing would be biased. Only the foolish man goes to the well to ask about water.I forgive you, my son. But don't ever fucking question me again.
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My child, I did not want to ask my question where those viewing would be biased. Only the foolish man goes to the well to ask about water.I forgive you, my son. But don't ever fucking question me again.
I thought I told you to lay off the Peyote.Lighten up Francis
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Why thank you.Now only if I could trust you. Sinner
Never been a sinner, I never sinnedI got a friend in JesusSo you know that when I dieHe's gonna set me up withThe spirit in the skyOh set me up with the spirit in the skyThat's where I'm gonna go when I dieWhen I die and they lay me to restI'm gonna go to the place that's the bestGo to the place that's the best
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Funny?
Let me call TBS... sorry, they said no. I mean it was too obvious, the delivery sucked (I don't know of any way to deliver it better), everyone was going with it being Jesus El Savior Christ, so trying to turn it into a poker related thing wasn't going to work. Sorry dude, I'm really not out to f with you.
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So, I take off to Florida for Christmas and can't find an internet connection for a day and a half.I'm excited to see something I started having 2 pages. Half-way down page 1...Jesus...Black...Thanks...BumpChips...Originally I was stupidly thinking there were 90 million actual chips in play. Figured if Paulsons are regularly about a $1.00 a chip. Then the probably got them for $00.55 to $00.65 cents each. Then realized I'm an idiot and there weren't 90 million actual chips. I would be curious to see if anybody has an idea how many chips they actually had. Especially near the beginning with multiple tournaments going on. Just kind of cool to think about how much money they dumped into chips.If I was Jamie Gold, yep, definitely would have said I want a set of chips for my home game.Jesus would have been mid-eastern anyway. But certainly not the 'stock' white photo we have of him.The black photo of Jesus..didn't that come from JJ and that tv show?Thanks for the highjack...very funny and so totally random. Pefect.For those who played in ME, with $10,000 in chips, what were the chip breakdowns at start-up?

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