2025

BARGE 2025 will be held July 28 through August 2 at the Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas! The event schedule will be announced soon.

My 13th EMBARGO. “I’m surrounded by Dans”

Complete results for EMBARGO 2025.

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. 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. ...