reasons for why someone would buy playchips:
1. you suck at poker and spending $10 on play chips gets you more play than depositing $10 and burning it at microstakes
2. you self-excluded and now are in deep regret/gambooling withdrawal
3. you are 12 yrs old
4. you want to try out a new game/style of play and would rather do so against high stakes play maney regs than micro real $ randoms
5. you play real $ games but use your play chips for spewing/detilting purposes (bullying the highstakes nittards by bluffing at 2 million chip pots is so much more fun than just open shoving your entire 1k playchip roll and a lot cheaper than chasing losses)
6. you like to play poker but are mormon/muslim and afraid of burning in hell, but lack the patience/skill to beat the stakes where people shove all-in dark
7. you buy chips to grind and, in turn, sell for profit
8. you want to feel baller at the "nosebleed" playchip tables
9. you sell play chips to these people
i know its an absurd concept for many of you, but some people choose to play poker for fun, not to make $.
some people can't handle losing real $ or have major tilt issues but still love the game.
who really gives a **** why people buy them? i'm just glad they do.
btw the 10k/20k HA game on FT is the stone cold nuts and i advise everyone in this thread to buy up a bunch of play chips so we can get a game going