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I wonder what espn would say to that.

Anyway what needs to happen is for players to turn to another $10k major event online. Besides the 10K buyin thats not meet the inflated cost of 1973. about 50k is right. The new HORSE event will be the M.E. for future wsop play.

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That's not the issue here. If you want to talk about the HORSE event being the new ME or about upping the buy-in, do that in the appropriate threads.

I am somewhat skeptical about the idea of smuggling in chips from other events, due to the fact that the biggest jump came with three tables left. The smallest chip in play at the time was $5,000. Getting to a level in a prelim where there are enough $5,000 chips around to get one off the table without anyone noticing suggests that you're going to have at least a high money finish. Not only does removing chips at that point reduce your chances of winning more, you run the risk of getting caught and getting beat up. Yes, I realize that plenty of players stuck $5 or a $25 chips into their posckets as momentos, but taking $5,000 off the table would arouse some suspicion.

Now, because there was this great disparity, and the fact that Harrah's is Harrah's, I'm not going to totally discredit the chips-from-prelims theory, but I think that's less of a reach to assume that someone messed up some chip counts along the way. Remember all of the people on Day 1 who supposedly had $3 chips, and the guy who wrote $26,000 on his chip count bag and wound up with a reported total of 226,000?

Either way, it's worth investigating even if no one from the ME complains. I still think it's just a mistake, but $2 million worth of chips is a BIG mistake.