Cancelled WSOP Chips (1 Viewer)

[nezara]

• STARTING BID: [ $ 15,000 ]
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Rare once in a life time opportunity to buy a playable set of WSOP chips. Chips are used - in the WSOP, but in fantastic condition.

Chips were used in the WSOP in the 90s and early 2000s. These were the chips used in the later rounds and many of the final tables.

Here's a picture of Chris Moneymaker winning the WSOP with these exact same chips

Breakdown is
1 rack of 500s from 93-2000 wsop
1 rack of 500s from 2000-2003 wsop
2 racks of 1,000s from 1993-2003 WSOP
130x 5,000s from 2000-2003 WSOP
50x 10,000s from 2000-2003 wsop
20x 25,000s from 2000-2003 wsop

In addition to cash bids I would place some monetary value on access to a group buy.

 

[Perthmike]

Wow

 

[MarquetteMonkey]

 

[Perthmike]

Someone alert Chris moneymaker to this thread lol

 

[RocAFella1]

@Changster

 

[bentax1978]

Someone alert Chris moneymaker to this thread lol

@ChrisMoneymaker

 

[davin]

Daaaaayum here to watch the action

 

[Perthmike]

@ChrisMoneymaker

Hahahahaha

 

[FDLmold]

Stuey touched some of those chips.

 

[FDLmold]

I got to thinking that's a crazy high $$$ start bid, but you factor in the where and the when on these, $25/chip is pretty reasonable to start.

 

[davin]

In for 1 sample if split into sample sets

 

[Changster]

600 chips for 15k+... wowowowowowowwow...

These are for collectors, which I am not... I’m out.

Awesome chips and GLWA!!!

 

[BGinGA]

Hahahahaha

He was a member on ChipTalk, and used to play occasionally in Brian Benda's online home games on pokerstars. Nice guy.

 

[davin]

600 chips for 15k+... wowowowowowowwow...

These are for collectors, which I am not... I’m out.

Awesome chips and GLWA!!!

bluffing

 

[Perthmike]

He was a member on ChipTalk, and used to play occasionally in Brian Benda's online home games on pokerstars. Nice guy.

Really, didn't know that. He was on one of Matt Vaughan's vlogs, possibly Brad or been too, and he seemed like a real nice guy.

 

[Payback]

@ChrisMoneymaker

I play with Chris occasionally at Tunica. However, I'm in Biloxi for the weekend so probably won't run into him in the next few days.

 

[Godzilla28]

@RainmanTrail

 

[Vice]

Most of those chips go for $25-40 on eBay as singles. As a single chip collector I have a few but still trying to buy a 25,000 and a 5,000. This is a fantastic set with a great history! GLWS!

 

[Highli99]

Sweeeeeeeeet. GLWA.

 

[WedgeRock]

This breakdown would almost work... But the 2 racks of 500's can't be played at the same time...

I suspect this is destined to be chopped up for collectors anyway.

 

[bentax1978]

This breakdown would almost work... But the 2 racks of 500's can't be played at the same time...

I suspect this is destined to be chopped up for collectors anyway.

Just turn those white T500 chips into T100, problem solved


kidding!

 

[WedgeRock]

kidding!

 

[Anthony Martino]

@GoFundMe time to pretend I have a serious illness (physical, not mental, there's no cure for that one!) and I need 15K to "cure" it!

 

[krafticus]

relabel project??

 

[ovo]

Wow, when I saw these singles on eBay, I would occasionally bid to try and get some, I knew someone was building, but Nezara didn't build this set, one by one, impressive, I could never let these go. Wish I was a rich man, I would buy all your sets, then I would have all the chips

 

[nezara]

Just turn those white T500 chips into T100, problem solved


kidding!

The two color 500's work fine. I typically use this set in 2 ways depending on number of players when I host:
1) 2 table no rebuy. Put one rack of 500's on each table 50k starting stacks. In the end everything is colored up to 10k and 25k chips by the time the final table is reached the 500s are gone.
2) 1 table with rebuys. In this scenario only using one rack of 500s - don't use all the 1k's or 5k's either, but still plenty of chips to support rebuys.

 

[WedgeRock]

1) 2 table no rebuy. Put one rack of 500's on each table 50k starting stacks. In the end everything is colored up to 10k and 25k chips by the time the final table is reached the 500s are gone.

This solutions actually works, as long as there is no table balancing before the 500's come off.

 

[nezara]

@ChrisMoneymaker

If you're going to alert him can you also alert @ScottyNguyen @ChrisFerguson and some of the others? A bidding war would be great!

 

[nezara]

This solutions actually works, as long as there is no table balancing before the 500's come off.

Yeah if you were worried about table re-balancing you could put 8 in starting stacks and have 20 spare to fix up re-balancing scenarios - or just color up a few chips usually no immediate re-balancing required. Never had the issue, but I suppose it's possible.

 

[RainmanTrail]