I have one of David Sklansky’s 1982 WSOP watches — curious what it’s worth

I had it when the pawn star said the watch would be worth more than scrap without Davids inscription. Maybe people find it creepy with personal items like that.

I'd pay the price of scrap gold +$100 for any doyle brunson bracelet or a variety of other famous players just to put on the shelf. That's 3 trips to McDonald's these days. I agree the TJ Cloutier Bracelet isn't one of them.

I would take any -1000 dollars as an investment, think gold price is falling.

Accurate. I've been quite heavily invested into live auctioning for years now so I have a pretty good feel for how this **** goes.

Names just hardly ever matter whatsoever unless you are looking at peak names. Sklansky is just a "who?" to the general public. I'm sure that if you could find a very specific person in this circumstance you could get more than melt value but you could start to say that about literally anything at that rate and that's generally not how the world operates.

In general, his watch would prob fetch slightly under melt or who knows. But certainly no premium under any normal circumstances.

How much for Moneymaker then?

I’d take the way under that 1M

Generally speaking I would think almost the entire poker universe is a “who?”

I bet Moneymaker could get scrap, which isn't little for the ME, times two.

x $130 ~ 70x130 ~ $10,000.

So say $20,000.

Something like that definitely starts to accrue value. But it's hard to say with one-off specials like this. Because it all just depends who the buyers are. I wouldn't even try to place a value estimate myself. You can have auction estimates that say value something at $200k-400k and then go on a mini run and sell for $1.5m. Happens all the time. Similarly, they will open at $200k and get zero bids. It's just tough to know because it's all speculative value and it mostly depends who is online and even knows it's for sale.

I live in Switzerland and deal primarily with the auction houses here. So I have a feel for the stuff sold in this country. Which has some gambling material and I will buy it, but I don't exactly have extensive specific experience with gambling stuff in general since it's by and large not sold here.

Funnily enough, I do own Charlie Chaplin's roulette table (the one he used to own). It's one of the few things I own of the 200-300 or so objects I've purchased from live auctions that is attached to a famous name. The table itself is ridiculously cool (imo) on it's own right. And if I asked you to put a price tag on it, you or most people here would probably just have no idea.

I paid 4,200 CHF + ~25% hammer.

Bottom line is ultimately though, outside of the peak famous names and peak items (Helmuth, Ivey, Moneymaker... some others) and the situation/story behind something, names just don't have much value. And it really depends on a multitude of factors. Namely who the rich people who are willing to punt on the speculative value which is less common than is probably popular belief (like the OP of this thread).