“I have told a few of my friends about it and gotten results of 'Awesome!' to 'You son of a bitch!'” I found this sealed old box of Pokémon.’ Like, I hate you,” he joked. “I've always seen the stories of people like, ‘Oh, look what I found. In total, Shaw found 69 of the most valuable POP Series 5 packs for the Pokémon TCG (POP stands for Pokémon Organised Play), over 150 packs of the previous POP Series 4 set - available from mid-2006 to early 2007 - and a mixture of other POP boosters, along with other promotional material and what he described as “notably less valuable” boosters. You can win them for placing higher, like higher quantities.” Basically, if you play in a tournament during those times, you just get one of these packs. “They used to be worth nothing because we would just hand them out at events. “People collect this stuff, and we just forgot. “We got these for free because we ran Pokemon events in 2007,” Shaw explained. It was a bundle of organised play promotional packs provided by TCG maker The Pokémon Company for these events that Shaw’s mother found stashed away, more than 15 years later. It’s worth noting that Shaw has a bit of an advantage over the average trading card fan, as for multiple years his family used to run a local game shop that hosted Pokémon card tournaments for players in the Somerset town of Yeovil. Some of the most valuable Pokémon cards of all time ‘These can't be the real ones.’ Scroll… Scroll… ‘No, this is what it is. These things, they retail for like £400 to £500 each on eBay.’ I'm like, ‘Wait, no.’ I'm getting pumped. “ ‘I’ll take a look at what these are worth,’” Shaw recalled. Jake Shaw’s mother Lorraine recently chanced upon dozens of unopened Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! packs stored in a forgotten plastic tub in a corner of the converted bungalow they share together. At least one person has recently stumbled upon old cards worth serious money, though. While most people hope to discover a rare Pokémon card worth thousands lurking in their childhood collection stashed up in the loft or tucked away in a cupboard, few folks actually have that dream realised.
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