18-year old scores karambit skin worth USD 169,000 after only 30 hours of play in CS:GO

CS:GO player scores super rare skin after mere 31 hours of play, sells the skin for USD 169,000

Original story by Mateusz Miter for Dot ESports

As reported by Jake Lucky, a Karambit Case Hardened with a Blue Gem pattern was opened a few days back. The knife skin’s price was estimated between $150,000 and $200,000, and it finally was sold on July 12 for $169,000.

This Karambit Case Hardened was the player’s first knife to be ever opened in the game, and it’s easily one of the rarest ones you could get. He opened around 210 cases before claiming the Karambit skin.

The player claimed he had been playing CS:GO for less than a week and afforded some cases due to income from working in the military.

The player, Yerr, was playing CS:GO for less than a week when he hit the jackpot with a Karambit Blue Gem skin.

The Blue Gem is one of the rarest patterns available in CS:GO and CS2 and it exists for the AK-47, Five-Seven, and most notably the knives. Yerr’s Karambit Blue Gem has one of the lowest pattern seeds available and is worth at least $150,000, according to Jake Lucky, of the most well-known content creators in esports.

The karambit skin is known to fetch the highest price among available skins in CS:GO, with one being offered for USD 1.4M in the past.

The player at first didn’t know much about how expensive the skin was. On top of that, when he had heard it could’ve been sold for around $200,000, he was in disbelief that players spent so much money on a virtual item.

Additionally, Jake Lucky claimed the player quickly made contact with renowned CS:GO personalities like streamer ohnePixel, who guided him on how to properly sell the knife and not get scammed in the process.

All in all, it seems more than natural that many frauds would become interested in deceiving a young player, who had no experience in high-value CS:GO transactions like these.

To learn more about how the win of user Yerr came about, read the previous original report by Leonardo Biazzi for Dot Esports here