Re: Why do they have those big piles of chips at the WSOP?
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In the tournaments I play in, they remove the small denomination ones. It looks like they have thousands of them. It seems like it would be difficult to count out. Do they do that to make people feel like winners or because it looks good on TV?
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Because there is an ante you have to keep smaller chips in play until the ante is higher than the smallest chip denomination. They race them off as soon as possible.
On a similar note, the WPT did not want to color up to large denomination chips (25K) at the final table even though the players were asking for it because they wanted all of the chips for TV. Apparently it looks better on TV although it becomes a pain to stack all of those chips.
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