WSOP Bracelet Up on eBay

Posted on January 22, 2010 
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Wow, either times are even tougher than we think or one collector has just managed to get his hands on some premium poker collectables. I heard that some official WSOP bracelets had found their way to the auction site recently, but I figured they had to be replicas, because who in their right mind is going to sell the most sought-after item in all of poker if they have one? Well, looks like the rumor is true as there is not one but two different bracelets (though only one from the WSOP) available at the moment, both of which were won by legendary pro T.J. Cloutier.

The first bracelet up for sale is for the WSOP $5,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em championship that Cloutier won back in 2005. The current owner of the bracelet, a pawn shop, claims that the item is 100% authentic and is 14 karat gold complete with diamonds, supposedly obtained directly from T.J. himself. The starting bid for the bracelet is $2,999 with free shipping to the US, and the auction ends on Jan. 24th.

The second bracelet appears to be Cloutier’s from back in 2007 when he won the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge IV Championship. This item is listed with a starting price of $2,499 and ends on the same day as the WSOP bracelet.

Now I can understand why someone might not want to hold on to a bracelet from a non-WSOP event (though I would have to be REALLY hard up for cash to want to get rid of it), but was T.J. in deep with loan sharks when he gave his WSOP bracelet to the pawn shop? You have to figure that the shop wouldn’t pay more than say $2,000 for the bracelet, an amount that should be very small in comparison of what you would think the bankroll of Cloutier would be.

I’ll post the results of the auction later next week after it’s over.

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