[Pavel6969]

http://cgi.ebay.ca/RARE-PokerStars-5...QQcmdZViewItem

First off, if these chips are so damn special, you think they would use something better than dice chips. And do you really have to gamble 2 MILLION dollars? His math doesn't seem right.

If it is true, you needed to gamble over 2 million dollars to earn yourself a set of DICE chips? Please someone tell me this is a lie and no one would even think about doing that.

[hunterking]

Originally Posted by Pavel6969

http://cgi.ebay.ca/RARE-PokerStars-5...QQcmdZViewItem

First off, if these chips are so damn special, you think they would use something better than dice chips. And do you really have to gamble 2 MILLION dollars? His math doesn't seem right.

If it is true, you needed to gamble over 2 million dollars to earn yourself a set of DICE chips? Please someone tell me this is a lie and no one would even think about doing that.

this is a lie... i play mostly 25¢/50¢ nlhe on pstars, and i have over 8000 fpps, which is what it takes to get these chips... plus his math is off:

Let me give you an idea of how hard this set is to get.

In the PokerStars FPP store this top prize item costs an astounding 8000 FPP points

Seeing how 5 points is awarded for every dollar of tournament fees paid,

You would have to play $5000+100 Heads-Up 400 times!

5100 * 400 = $2,040,000

That's over two million dollars you would have to gamble in order to be able to obtain this set.

It has taken me close to a year to accumulate this many points!

1st, he chose probably about the silliest way to try to gain fpp's as his example: $5000 + $100 heads-up? lol. 2nd, by his example, you would have to play 40, not 400, of these heads-up matches:

$100 x 5 fpps/$ = 500 fpps x 40 = 8000 fpps. this would still be pretty ridiculous, as one would have to put up $5100/ hu match x 40 matches = $204,000, but i would guess that some one who is going to be playing at that level wouldn't really worry too much about fpp's. also, i'm fairly certain that pstars has special comps for their high-roller players...

[PocketRocket]

There are many predators on eBay preying on the gullible. While one might think that there can't be that many suckers around, the proliferation of such amatuerish misrepresentation would lead one to believe that either the scammers are stupid, or the internet has attracted a lot of potential victims for fraud. Just look at your e-mail spam and you'll find scams that had all but become extinct for a lack of viable marks, that is until the internet seemingly gave the scams new life.

Originally Posted by Pavel6969

First off, if these chips are so damn special, you think they would use something better than dice chips. And do you really have to gamble 2 MILLION dollars? His math doesn't seem right.

If it is true, you needed to gamble over 2 million dollars to earn yourself a set of DICE chips? Please someone tell me this is a lie and no one would even think about doing that.

[99%evil]

I just bid on 4 auctions for crystal park chips(50 chips each auction, 1-2-3-5 denoms) and got an e-mail from ebay's fraud dept. telling me not to deal with this person and their membership was pulled and auctions cancelled. I swear the same chips are back up again, just a heads up.

[PocketRocket]

Just don't tell us that you're going to go bid on the new auctions.

Originally Posted by 99%evil

I just bid on 4 auctions for crystal park chips and got an e-mail from ebay's fraud dept. telling me not to deal with this person and their membership was pulled and auctions cancelled. I swear the same chips are back up again, just a heads up.

[99%evil]

Originally Posted by PocketRocket

Just don't tell us that you're going to go bid on the new auctions.

But they're such a good deal


Actually I don't see them anymore, the guy must have changed to another name and got busted again. Or maybe I've had too much cough syrup again....

[Pavel6969]

Their obviously are more suckers on ebay than educated people imo. But this one auction was so wild I had to post it. No bids on it yet, maybe people have more brains that I thought

[Colquhoun]

$100 x 5 fpps/$ = 500 fpps x 40 = 8000 fpps. this would still be pretty ridiculous, as one would have to put up $5100/ hu match x 40 matches = $204,000,

Yes, the math is more than a bit off. And his numbers also assume that you would spend all that money if you LOSE ALL the heads-up matches. If you are playing at such a high level of heads-up, 400 times, and cant scrape together even one win...you need more than a set of slugged chips, my friend.

[PocketRocket]

Not necessarily suckers, but some people are so focused on trying to get something for nothing, that they don't see for forest for the trees.

They just can't seem to comprehend that most basic of all caveats,
"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is"

Originally Posted by Pavel6969

Their obviously are more suckers on ebay than educated people imo. But this one auction was so wild I had to post it. No bids on it yet, maybe people have more brains that I thought

[RichieStacks]

Originally Posted by hunterking

$100 x 5 fpps/$ = 500 fpps x 40 = 8000 fpps.

500 x 40 = 20,000
500 x 16 = 8,000