You’re probably here for the gallery.

It is a tradition of BARGE that each Main Event winner wins a custom chipset… that they have to design. These chips are sold as sample sets as well as made available to the BARGE community.

We’ve got images of each of the chip sets and a little bit of information on them.

The gallery starts in 1993 and ends in 2019.

Special thanks to Patrick Milligan for reaching out to many folks who were able to share images of chips from their collections. Patrick also re-scanned and edited a lot of these to get the best quality images we could.

Thanks also to BR Pro Poker, Michael Brennan, and the Internet Archive for the opportunity to dig through their archives.

There is even more BARGE memorabilia that we will add in the future.

Please contact us if you have images or corrections.

History of BARGE Main Event Chips

Pre-BCC Chips

Starting with 1993, and through 1999, chips were produced by the Main Event winner. For the first few events, the chipset was presented at BARGE, but starting with 1997, the winner started designing their own chips.

In 2000, the main event winner did not make the chips. Ken “QB” Kubey made a set for distribution at BARGE 2000.

BCC Chips

Starting from the 2001 BARGE, and retroactive to the 2000 chipset, the BARGE Chip Committee formed to ensure chipsets were produced every year. Input from the Main Event winners varied from very active to none at all.

The BCC’s last chipset was the 2019 chipset.