The first chip set. Picture provided by Roy Hashimoto.

The first chip set. Picture provided by Roy Hashimoto.

This was the very first BARGE chip set, created by Steve Jacobs. A 300 chip home set of these chips was presented to the 1993 BARGE NLHE Champ, Roy Hashimoto. Each attendee at BARGE 1993 also received a purple chip.

A few of the chips came in the form of refrigerator magnets or on key chains. In addition, Michael “kidZee” Zimmers used the artwork to produce decks of playing cards.

After BARGE was over, Steve Jacobs predicited: “Sorry to say I don’t think any more BARGE chips will ever be made. They were simply too much trouble.” Good thing he was  wrong!

We have the text of the original annoucement (reformatted somewhat due to being mangled by various Usenet archviers).

Photo of the green chip at the top and the complete 7-chip set provided by Bob Herlien.

View a PDF version of this set.