Extremely unlikely. This is simply an excuse to explain why the math doesn't work.

According to this the reason that there is so much active free money play still is that when PokerStars is legalized next year that there is an immediate real money benefit. You can sell your free money chips to get real money in your account when it becomes legal next year. Which is less likely to happen than being able to sell your play money chips for real money.

Who is going to buy them? Are you going to solicit bids on PokerStars to join an Ebay auction? No, it's very specific that it's $10 per one million free money chips.

Is PokerStars going to buy them back? Yeah, right. What could they possibly gain. Eternal goodwill? When you lose the $200 are you going to steal your parent's credit cards and make a deposit?

I have mentioned a recent explosion in my free money stack. In less than three months I'm knocking on the door of three million free money chips. And this has a helluva lot more to do with recognizing the AI than poker talent. But I am a very good player. I estimate that a really good player would take at least five years to get 20 million chips playing nothing but free money games against real human beings.

I can just see the conversations now. "Oh, little Johnny. We support your quest to trade in 20 million free money chips to get $200. Let me pay your bills for five years on this spiritual quest."

"Thanks Mom. Enjoy poverty."

Naturally this will be explained off as a braggart taunting. But that still doesn't explain one nigh t of getting three quarters of a million chips.

This weird effort to make poker related chat is backfiring big time.