I remember back in the day, selling a few of that same WSOP chip series green 25NCV for $80 each on . I couldn’t believe they sold for that much. That same year I saw a 100NCV sell for $400.

They used those same chips for some 1K events and even some of the WSOP daily $200-$400 ‘Deepstack’ buy-in events. It didn’t take people long to realize a few harvested small denom chips can more than pay for your buy in..