July 10th, 2009
Asprey, the 200-year-old London luxury goods firm is known for creating exclusive British products and designer accessories including games.
One of their newest offerings is an exquisite handmade gentleman’s poker set in lustrous black genuine crocodile skin with royal purple Asprey playing cards and ceramic poker chips.
This beautiful poker set comes for a cool $7,800
May 7th, 2009
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich lost one of the yachts in a game of poker, Russian newspapers reported on Monday, prompting a strong denial from the oligarch.
“The story is absolutely, completely, entirely false,” Abramovich spokesman John Mann told AFP after three Russian daily newspapers published versions of the story that originated in the Italian press.
The popular daily Moskovsky Komsomelets said the oligarch lost the $500,000 yacht while playing poker in Barcelona, which he was visiting to watch Chelsea in action.
January 16th, 2009
This refined, limited-edition Macassar ebony poker box, lined in orange velvet calfskin, contains chips crafted of yellow European boxwood, walnut, brown palissandre, and black and Macassar ebony.
Available at vivre.com for $5,210
October 14th, 2008
Celebrating the inaugural SKYCITY Festival of Poker, Amber Peebles wore a specially designed chip dress worth $1 million at the SKYCITY Lee Nelson and Brooke Howard-Smith Celebrity & Media Invitational poker tournament last week.
The dress was made out of 200 casino chips worth $5000 each, and required the MTV presenter to have her own security team following her around.
Amber Peebles said: “When SKYCITY first pitched me on the idea of the Million Dollar Chip Dress I thought it was very Paris Hilton, but how many times does a girl get to wear a million bucks?”
The dress, weighed more than two kilograms, was made only for this event at the SkyCity Casino in Auckland, and will never be worn again.
