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Rich Stanton

18 year-old unboxes a $200K+ knife in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive after playing for 34 hours

Blue gem Karambit knife in CSGO

As someone who's played Counter-Strike for over 15 years, I'm going to give you some advice: Don't open Counter-Strike: Global Offensive cases. It's simple! All you'll get is crap. And yet, and yet, somehow I still end up sticking in £20 or whatever when I get paid and unboxing multiple muddy brown MP9s worth 15p. So do as I say, not as I do.

After all you could be an outlier like this 18 year-old who, after being banned on Valorant (we're not sure what for), tried out the OG and after clocking a modest 34 hours in the game opened a case containing a Karambit blue gem knife with a 387 pattern. The important element here is the pattern. The 387 pattern is considered the #1 pattern in the game for the Karambit knife, being both incredibly rare and the bluest of blues, and depending on the condition of the weapon, could see the value go well north of $200,000. An example in slightly better condition is allegedly worth $1.5 million, and this knife is estimated to be one of only a dozen in the world.

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