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.