The "Ghost" extra chips in the WSOP ME

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At least up to and including Day 3, there was no "independent" verification of chip counts; for obvious practical reasons. Meaning that if someone added their end of day chips incorrectly, it was reported incorrectly. Obviously this error would correct iteself as the number of players shrink so it could explain some of the error on the earlier days but not the ending chip count.