When you reach the final table of a live tournament and your initial investment could be turned into five-figure prize money, whichever place you finish should leave you with a feeling of pride.

What it probably shouldn’t do is leave you with $1,600 in cash and an amount of silver which you’ll need to then trade to convert back into readily usable funds.

Thanks to Chad Holloway at PokerNews, this story might be one of the oddest of the year so far in poker. 

The Midway Poker Tour kicked off on Friday, with their $1,100 yielding 266 entries, not bad figures during the global Coronavirus pandemic. With a charity partner in ‘4 K.I.D.S. Sake’, the 31 players who made it to the final day on Sunday were guaranteed $2,300 for their efforts. What they weren’t guaranteed, however, was to receive all of their winnings in good old American greenbacks.