The 2025 chip theme, chosen by 2024 Main Event winner Tim Showalter, is “Nuts”. The reverse sides of the chips depict a variety of nuts, more or less.

This is the second chipset with denominations. The first was 2023. BARGE chips have traditionally eschewed them. They were included at Tim’s belligerent, tiresome insistence.

Prototype black chips in a stack.

Prototype black chips in a stack.

The edge design, stacked neatly, makes a repeating nut pattern. (See Caro’s Book of Poker Tells, tell #1, “When I was a boy, I liked to play with blocks.”) This was inspired by the 2019 chip set.

The common obverse side depicts a pinball bumper cap that also appears on Tim’s cash game set, which Patrick also designed some years ago.

Chip design and infinite patience by Patrick Milligan. Thanks to Doug Grismore, Bruce Kramer, and Tim’s home game for many chip reviews.

Reverse-side Images

  • Blue 1: the Mad Hatter, drawn by John Tenniel from the original edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • Red 5: either a left- or right-handed wing nut, in appreciation for the barge-relpol list.
  • Green 25: Jordan almonds.
  • Black 100: ⅝" nuts with a ⅜-16 thread, the correct nut for locking down leg levellers on the finer pinball machines. Picture by Chris Kuntz.
  • Violet 500: a blind squirrel holding Presto, drawn by @dilartz on Fiverr.
  • Yellow 1000: cashews
  • Brown 5000: walnuts.
  • Pink 25K: pink sprinkicious donut.
  • Orange 100K: circus peanuts. Photo by Patrick Milligan.
  • White: A pina colada in an ADB coconut. This chip features an “aligned” edge spot. No denomination, as ADBs are without number (that is, nobody remembers how many there are).

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