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So I read an old article somewhere that said its possible to sell like a million play money chips of pokerstars for a profit of a dollar or two. I searched google and find a controversy whether it can happen or not. And I also find a site that says that does exactly that although I am not sure how legit is it.

Anyone have experience or know if this stills holds true or not?
 
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that´s very intersting to now. I will serch on PokerStars
 
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I myself did not sell game chips, but saw ads about buying / selling game chips PokerStars in Russian-language forums. I think it works, but you need to submit an advertisement and look for buyers.
 
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Come on guys. Maybe I put the wrong title and nobody clicks cause they think I am selling play money. I cant believe we are so many pokerstar players here and nobody knows! :(
 
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You can buy/sell play money chips, not sure if its legal or stuffs like that but for sure if u find a buyer you can do it. But don't see the point buying/selling play money chips? Its better to deposit those dollars to pokerstars instead of buying play money chips...
 
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Yeah I've seen those before, but never used any of the services myself. There used to be a play money game, I think a step poker type structure on Carbon Poker, that you could use play chips and work your way up to a game where you could win a little bit of money. Not much but it was something, and the pokersite was the one holding the event.
As for the play chips being sold on Pokerstars, you might want to check the ToS and be sure that it is OK to do it, as I thought it was actually against the rules, but I could be mistaken. I never really thought it was worth it when it was available to me before Black Friday, and now since I am in the USA I can't even play real money at Stars, so I haven't really looked into it. I just remember it was such a low amount of money that you would actually get, that it seemed like it would be more time conscious to just make a small deposit.
Can you transfer play money on Stars, or do you have to go HU and chip dump? I thought it was the latter and another reason why it didn't seem worth it. Though I could be wrong about that.
 
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I have no experience and don't see how you could sell or buy play money from someone else on Pokerstars...
 
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It's so ironic how many times Google takes me back to cards chat in my poker queries, force to be reckoned with. Just won a 50k play money tourney for 6.5 mil total looking for buyers LOL
 
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Any 2020 updates on this from anyone? I have loads of play money chips
 
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Any 2020 updates on this from anyone? I have loads of play money chips


You can get 15000 chips every 4 hours and you can buy play money directly from PokerStars. I doubt people still buy chips from other players, but it's possible.
 
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Yeah I remember back 5 + years as ago when you could sell play money chips on Pokerstars to sites who would than resell it to other people. Not sure if they still do it anymore though.
 
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My opinion

Selling chips is like buying chips for a phone App. I am unsure if its legit but it seems ok with me.
 
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I'm confused why anyone would want to do this? If you really want play money chips just get the free chips every 4 hours it will soon build up. Or collect and go to a table and throw all in, you'll get 5 or 6 callers.

Some sites allow top up any time you go broke so you can just keep going all in till you get what you want.
 
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One time I manage to make billions on the wsop play money app thats connected to facebook. and I started getting a bunch of DMs saying they would buy billions from me for like hundreds of real dollars, never replied and they where real profiles and friends from the app but I assume the easiest way to do that off site is sending the real money through venmo paypal such and then play a private table and pass all the chips from one account to the buyers account by raising then folding so giving the chips away for free. I got greedy and trying making gazillions using those billions and lost them, but they where play chips so it doesn't matter. now real life I will try to do the same.
 
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As someone else has said I thought you could get free play money chips every 4 hours. Who want to pay real money when you can do that. How weird!
 
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Its not legit, since selling chips mean transferring them by losing on purpose, also known as "chip dumping", which are against the TOS of all poker platforms. Sites also dont want this to happen, because they sell chips themselfes. Actually this was "big business" back in the day on Zynga Poker Facebook platform, where people would form "teams" (collude) or use bots just to win these fake money chips and sell them to other players.

As for why somebody will buy fake money chips, thats a good question. Logically this makes no sense, and probably the best answer is, that even play money poker can be addictive. Once people have reached a certain blind level, they feel, they "belong" there, and since almost noone uses proper bankroll management, they go bust again and again.

Then they dont want to start all over with the few free daily chips, that are given to them. Hence they buy a bunch of chips either from the site or from players selling them illegally, so they can get back to the level, where they feel, they "belong". Or they even beg for chips from other players, which also happened all the time on Zynga. Kind of a crazy circus really, which I certainly dont miss :D
 
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It's better to play real tournaments for these two dollars than to spend on chips that are already free)
 
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Maybe someone buys something, but there are very few such people:deal::deal::deal:
 
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play money is free, why someone will buy it
 
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Why would anyone buy play chips,you can get them for free by going to the cashier and adding play money chips,you get 15,000 every 4 hours
 
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So I read an old article somewhere that said its possible to sell like a million play money chips of pokerstars for a profit of a dollar or two. I searched google and find a controversy whether it can happen or not. And I also find a site that says that does exactly that although I am not sure how legit is it.

Anyone have experience or know if this stills holds true or not?
Several years ago I saw such information on the Internet, they were bought at about this price. I myself wanted to sell the chips, but I never got around to doing it, I already started playing for money. Try to search the forums, you may find something.
 
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I also remember back about a decade ago they would have play money tourneys for real money.
But honestly I would say it is probably not legit. When you sign up for any site you agree to terms and if I remember correctly that is a big no no.
 
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BetFred Poker used a system where you could play in free tournaments to win Points then redeem the points for cash or use them to buy into a cash game. The difference was you could buy-in to a £5 tourney for 50 points but if you cashed them in you only got something like £1 for 490 points.
So it was better to buy-in to games and gamble them, rather than cashing them out. I have not played on their site for a while now because every time they sent updates out I would lose my account log-in details and have to contact customer services every time. But I still have about £200 in my account all built up from Points and free-roll games

When the fun Stops, STOP!
 
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One time I manage to make billions on the WSOP play money app thats connected to facebook. and I started getting a bunch of DMs saying they would buy billions from me for like hundreds of real dollars, never replied and they where real profiles and friends from the app but I assume the easiest way to do that off site is sending the real money through venmo paypal such and then play a private table and pass all the chips from one account to the buyers account by raising then folding so giving the chips away for free. I got greedy and trying making gazillions using those billions and lost them, but they where play chips so it doesn't matter. now real life I will try to do the same.

Actually, you can just join and leave private games to pass chips from one account to the buyers account. You don't have to raise then fold. :)
 
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