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WSOP Chip Usage - 2005 Rio Primary Bud Jones (17 Viewers)
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Update: Fixed broken images
Great thread. Thanks for sharing
Being a poor peasant, I've never had or expect to be able to touch a WSOP chip. But they look like they're made of hard plastic, much like the cheap bicycle chip. But I don't believe the WSOP would be played with cheap plastic chips...or would they? Does anyone know what material they are made of and their texture and weight?
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They are Bud Jones S2 high end plastics and are much better than cheap plastic chips. A lot of people still don't like the plastic even at the higher end because of the texture and slipperiness. It is definitely and acquired taste.
You can learn more here
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/resources/bud-jones-chip-types.61/
Thank You Master Ben, I'll have a look.
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New picture of the 500K. I always assumed it was blueish purple based on pictures but turns out it is very, very purple.
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Between some of these that I'm pretty sure I got back on CT, some well timed and found eBay auctions, a couple direct sales from @JrChief8 and of course everyone's new favorite eBay seller, I finally have a "complete" set of the 2005 BJ WSOP chips. I put complete in quotes as I'm missing the super elusive "5".
I'm mostly happy with this photo. It's a touch dark (I tried to brighten it knowing photos get munged a little bit when posted directly to the forum), but generally the colors are about right on my calibrated monitor.
Sorry for the reflections on the inlay part of the chip. I tried as best I could to adjust lights and the angle the camera was facing the chips as best I could, but it was a bit difficult to get a version that was well lit, but also not reducing one or two inlays to an unreadable glare.
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I'm missing 4+1
The 5 I've never seen for sale, The 500/1K/5K Orange I could get today but don't want to pay the asking price, and the 10K I have only seen a few of but know they are out there.
What a crazy turn of events for the collecting community that I need the 500 and 1,000 but not the 1,000,000 or 5,000,000.
The 5 I've never seen for sale, The 500/1K/5K Orange I could get today but don't want to pay the asking price, and the 10K I have only seen a few of but know they are out there.
What a crazy turn of events for the collecting community that I need the 500 and 1,000 but not the 1,000,000 or 5,000,000.
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Who’s got a playable set of these now?
Getting close !
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Question for anyone who has played with these chips or any of the replica sets that were made from them. Which was more problematic in terms of color closeness: the lavender 5000 and pink 500, or the orange 5000 and red 25,000? Based on the pictures I'm seeing in this thread, the orange 5000 definitely does not seem like an improvement.
The last year the WSOP was @ the Rio ^
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That's what I'm thinking. I haven't been able to find a good shot of the lavender 5000s on the table with the 500s.
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This is the best I can do. I don't think the 500/5K clashing was the motivation for the change.
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Thanks Ben! I think you're right. Do you have any theories why the change? Just for the sake of change?
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Uneducated guess? Security.
1. The 5K is the only chip where we have seen two variations for this set. This leads me to believe the Orange 5Ks were an emergency order for 2006 and not an already existing chip.
2. In 2005 outside of the Main Event, it doesn't appear anything higher than the 5Ks were used at any other event (although pictures are scarce to confirm this).
3. The early 2000s were the height of the Men Nguyen gang cheating scandals.
The WSOP may have had fears of chip dumping/swapping controversies and chose to order new 5Ks.
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