chip tricks

i can't do any of those tricks in the videos lol... is there anywhere telling you how to do them?

I don't know if there are any videos but if you want to learn how to shuffle your chips. Start with 4 and split them into stacks of two and pick one side up and practice shuffling those together and as you get to the point were you can almost alwayd do it. Add chips. I'm up to shuffling 12. Its fun and it gives me something to do to keep me occupied at the table.

Originally Posted by Wolverine42

I don't know if there are any videos but if you want to learn how to shuffle your chips. Start with 4 and split them into stacks of two and pick one side up and practice shuffling those together and as you get to the point were you can almost alwayd do it. Add chips. I'm up to shuffling 12. Its fun and it gives me something to do to keep me occupied at the table.

With all due respect, fellas: isn't that time better spent reading a book or posts on this forum or playing cards?

to shuffle the chips, you need to push the two stacks together. i use my thumb and forefinger on the side of one stack and my little finger and ring finger at the side of the other stack. then you lift up the chips with your middle finger and they should interlace into one stack.
you probably won't get it at first. like everything else, it takes practice.

I saw a pretty good website once with all kinds of tricks and videos telling you how to do them. I think shuffling 6 chips is very easy, but when I go to 8 it's nearly impossible for me.

If posting external links is allowed I have a great site for learning.

Originally Posted by Molinero

Originally Posted by Wolverine42

I don't know if there are any videos but if you want to learn how to shuffle your chips. Start with 4 and split them into stacks of two and pick one side up and practice shuffling those together and as you get to the point were you can almost alwayd do it. Add chips. I'm up to shuffling 12. Its fun and it gives me something to do to keep me occupied at the table.

With all due respect, fellas: isn't that time better spent reading a book or posts on this forum or playing cards?

Yes! Read and play!!!!

But, when you want to take a break from that, check out:

http://pokerchiptricks.com/

It gives you front and back views (using video) of how to do many tricks. Also provides a textual how-to for each one. Tricks are segmented into three difficulty levels. If you can pull off the butterfly, I'll be very impressed. It's fargin hard!

With all due respect, fellas: isn't that time better spent reading a book or posts on this forum or playing cards?

yes there a million better things I could be doing with my life. But in my spare time I am searching for a cure for cancer, working on a warp engine to travel to another galaxy, and I am feeding all the hungry children throughout the world. Oh yea and creating the next great american reality TV show. Somehow I squeezed in the time to learn a chip trick. I think I'm going straight to hell.......LOL

rivermoney, that's the site I was referring too. Thanks for posting the link. It's a great site for learning chip tricks.

Before I had ftr to occupy my time I started working on chip tricks also. The shuffling is pretty difficult at first. I started with two stacks of 5 and after about the first 100 times of chips plying all over the table I finally just got it one time. I kept adding a chip per pile and after a couple of months I can riffle 20 (two stacks of 10) without even thinking about it.

Just somethign to occupy my time while i'm waiting for that one sloooooooooooow player that's at every online table, and the b&m games that I play locally.

Thanks for the link too... I'd seen that site some time ago, but forgot all about it until now.

Originally Posted by Molinero

Originally Posted by Wolverine42

I don't know if there are any videos but if you want to learn how to shuffle your chips. Start with 4 and split them into stacks of two and pick one side up and practice shuffling those together and as you get to the point were you can almost alwayd do it. Add chips. I'm up to shuffling 12. Its fun and it gives me something to do to keep me occupied at the table.

With all due respect, fellas: isn't that time better spent reading a book or posts on this forum or playing cards?

chip tricks are actually more useful at a live table than you think. they are a good tool for intimidation, relaxation, and to battle boredom.

ex. i actually look very young for my age (i'm 21 but i look more like 16-17). whenever i sit down at a new game, i pretty much have 0 respect and everybody at the table just looks at me with gleaming shark eyes. a majority of the times, i will let them continue to think i'm a fish - reassuring them that they can probe bet me out of pots, etc. and then i will trap them really good a few times. soon after, they begin to grow cautious and worried if the past moves i've done was dumb luck or "skill". this is when i began to start twirling, shuffling, rolling chips around like i've been around them my entire life. 99% of the time, they are instantly intimidated and start folding to all my bets (and checking rather than raising when i check) like little school girls. i know it sounds unbelievable, but you would be suprised as to how well this works.

also, live games go alot slower than online games. waiting for cards can often become frustrating if you're use to the fast pace online play. playing around with your chips can help you battle boredom and avoid stupid mistakes due to boredom. also, i've found that you can secretly count your chips in a tournament setting if you do chip tricks because you're constantly in contact and looking at your chips (alot of people don't like to count their chips in a tournament because it supposedly shows "that you're worried about the amount of chips that you have".....not really sure if i agree...but..).

Originally Posted by Wolverine42

With all due respect, fellas: isn't that time better spent reading a book or posts on this forum or playing cards?

yes there a million better things I could be doing with my life. But in my spare time I am searching for a cure for cancer, working on a warp engine to travel to another galaxy, and I am feeding all the hungry children throughout the world. Oh yea and creating the next great american reality TV show. Somehow I squeezed in the time to learn a chip trick. I think I'm going straight to hell.......LOL

Sigh...

Point made, point made. :P

I was pointing out though that, as useful and entertaining as chip tricks can be, it's better to spend one's time learning the nuances of the game when one is first starting out -- as is the case for many of the members who frequent the Beginners Circle.

Capisce?

I've always thought of chip tricks as giving away information about yourself. It makes people think you're good, which just isn't the image I think works best at the table. I think you would be better off if you gave the impression that you are young, have some extra cash, and you don't know much about the game. And as far as intimidation, I don't believe that either. Are you scared of that guy next to you that can do chip tricks? I hope not. One table I played at this one guy kept doing what is listed as the easiest chip trick on the website that was posted in this thread. I don't know if he was just bored or if he was trying to impress everyone, but it didn't mean anything to me.

About the only use chip tricks have is fighting boredom.

btw, I don't think live games are slow and boring. There's so much more to see than online.

And as far as intimidation, I don't believe that either. Are you scared of that guy next to you that can do chip tricks? I hope not.

Your average FTR reader isn't, but a lot of people are. I've had several women ask me how to riffle chips and whatnot and then tell me that seeing me do it had 'scared' them. For what it's worth...

In most games I play the last thing I want to do is intimidate people. I want them having fun and throwing their money around! So when I'm at a loose game now with lots of new players I don't do chip tricks any more. Sadly.

the intimidation factor is more useful in a tournament environment rather than a cash game environment.

due to the low blinds in a cash game, you would almost 99% of the time want loose players throwing money around. in a tournament setting, however, where blinds continuely go up and blind stealing becomes a neccesity for survival......intimidation becomes a big factor in "buffering" your bluffs.

as far as chip tricks creating tells.....i know this is very possible, but once you know how to do the tricks well.....it is actually very hard for others to grab tells out of them. for the more observant players, i actually use tricks to mislead them at times. ex. while blinds are low - i will shuffle my chips whenever i'm bluffing. i'll lose a bit of money to them and let them think they 've "spotted my tell". when the blinds get higher and the pots get bigger (and quite possibly when i raise them all in), i'll start shuffling when i hold the nuts in the hopes that they will think i'm bluffing again.