How to Exchange Your Poker Stars Play Chips For Cash

So you've crushed the Poker Stars play money tables and have earned a half a million play chips or more. Congratulations, that's quite a feat. Do you realize that there is a market for your chips? Read on and I'll show you how you can exchange those chips for real money in your PokerStars account.

Things You'll Need

• At least 500,000 in PokerStars play money chips.

Instructions

1. 

   So what's this all about? Well, it turns out that there are many players who do play PokerStars just for fun. Since you have accumulated such a large play money account it's safe to say that you may be one of them.

   However, some players do not want to have to start at the bottom and work their way up to where the top players play. These players purchase millions of chips at a time from players like you who have already accumulated these chips. The reason that demand for these chips exists is that PokerStars only gives players 2000 play chips to start out with. That is not enough if you want to play serious poker with good players. The bottom rungs of the play money hierarchy are filled with "Donks", aka, horrible players.

   Your first step in exchanging your play money chips for real money is to enter this search string into Google:
   "Exchange PokerStars chips for cash". You will be provided with a list of sites to choose from.

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   The second step is find a site who's live chat is online and ask them about their rates. The average is $10 per one million chips. Thank the operator and ask them for their hours so you will know when to come back.

   Since many of these sites are operated by one to two people working 8 hour shifts it can be difficult to catch them online. If they are offline you can usually leave a message. Let them know how many chips that you are offering.

3. 

   Now use Google again, but this time type, "(Name of site)+scam". This will allow you to check whether anyone has posted a negative experience with this particular site. If you find a negative review move onto the next site. When you find a website that has no negative reviews you may proceed. This process does not guarantee that you will find a trader with some scruples but it does help.

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   All of these sites conduct the transfer in real time with you. PokerStars usually takes up to 15 mintues to send you the real money and the good exchange sites will hang around with you until the transfer is complete. Feel free to ask for this service before hand and if they refuse you may take this as a negative indication and move on.

   Once you agree to the transfer the operator will ask you to sit at a play money table that has at least two free seats in it. The operator will sit next to you.

   You transfer the chips to them by right clicking on their username and clicking on "Transfer play money chips" and then they transfer the real money to you, all via PokerStars.

   Officially, PokerStars says that they do not mind this as long as players are not discussing the transfer while seated at their tables. This can be a great way to start a poker bankroll without depositing a cent of your own money.

   Good luck and remember to look for negative reviews on the sites that you find. There are sites that attempt to scam PokerStars players but there are many that run an honest business.

   Please know that I am not affiliated with any exchange site or with PokerStars.com, other than playing at their site.

Tips & Warnings

• Another good idea is to find a forum where this practice is being discussed. This is a great place to get tips on which sites are legitimate and which are not.

• Never divulge personal information to anyone over the internet. The site operator has no need to know anything other than your PokerStars user-name. If they request passwords or other information leave the site immediately. You may also consider posting about them in a forum where this practice is being discussed. Generally this is a safe transaction but caution must always be used when dealing with strangers over the internet.

• PokerStars requires a real money deposit from their players for security reasons before they allow withdrawals. If you have built your bankroll significantly then this should not be an issue as they allow deposits as low as $10.

Resources

• An exchange site
• An exchange site that I have heard good things about
• A forum that contains good information about PS playchip exchanges