Total Number of Chips in Play

For the first time, we have our first believable confirmation of the official number of chips in play. You couldn't completely trust the end-of-day chip counts released by Harrah's on previous days, because they weren't verified chip counts. The players simply counted their own chips and wrote that number on their bags and their cards. And in the excitement of reaching the next day, a lot of players could care less about a precise chip count.

Now that we have an official count, how many chips are in play? And how many should there be based on 6,358 starting players?

The actual chips in play add up to 127,150,000. If you do the math (6,358 x 20,000 in chips), the theoretical number is 127,160,000. The chips are only off by 10,000 -- two of the smallest denomination chips in play.