The "Ghost" extra chips in the WSOP ME

[sirio11]

Probably already discussed in some other thread but I couldn't find it.

At the end, it looked like there were more than 90 million chips. But 8773*10,000 = 87,730,000.

Can anybody explain the discrepancy?

[pokergrader]

On the PPV feed it was claimed to be from chipping up from race-offs.

[tennispro11_7]

Gold obviously found someway to steal them and add them to his stack. otherwise how would he have a chance to win

[sirio11]

What was the last race-off they made? The 25k chips? and when did they made this one?

[palman]

Assuming the chipcounts were accurate, it seems quite obvious ENORMOUS cheating occurred at some point. Richard Brodie's blog goes into the "chip race" theory.

[fluorescenthippo]

at first i thought 4% of chips (phil gordon said this) was too much overall to be just in colorup difference. but if you figure like 10, maybe more, colorups its probably about right

[fluorescenthippo]

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Assuming the chipcounts were accurate, it seems quite obvious ENORMOUS cheating occurred at some point. Richard Brodie's blog goes into the "chip race" theory.

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expalin theory plz

[Kevmath]

It seems something got messed up between Day 6 and Day 7. The discrepancy went from ~500k to over 2m.

[KKsuited]

what are the odds ESPN even had an accurate chip count? You have to have a pretty big job going on to get that many chips into the tournament.

[Ortho]

By this point (after day 6), they have a basically totally accurate chip count on everyone though, yes?