How many chips to shuffle to be a Pro LOL

[wdbaker]

OK,
Looking for chip tricks, how many do I need to be able to shuffle and what are some of the other good ones and how do you do them.

Don't make me go to the "Small Stakes" or "Mid, High Stakes" forums to get this info, it will make you all look bad /forums/images/icons/grin.gif

One street at a time
wdbaker Denver, Co

[Mark H]

at least 20 to be a pro its tough to practic shuffeling without felt but you can practice rolling chips in front of your computer so you dont look like a complete novice.


mark h /forums/images/icons/cool.gif

[wdbaker]

Mark,
how do you roll chips, what does that mean, by the way, I can shuffle 10 one handed fairly well.

Other tricks please, I want my competition so stunned by my chip skills that they just lay down for me and hand over the chips /forums/images/icons/grin.gif

One street at a time
wdbaker Denver, Co

[gamboolman]

How many depends on your hand size. I have a small hand and shuffling more than 16 is iffy for me. To practice at home use a spare mouse pad as it is like a poker table. You need a little bit of give. start with 4 or 6 chips and while you are putting pressure on the outside edges kind of push in and they will start to go together. A few hundred hours later and when your at the casino you will be doing it like every one else. Some say it's a sign of a problem??

[MS Sunshine]

Being able to shuffle a stack of chips is a sign of a misspent youth.

Start with 6-8 chips and add 2 chips when you feel you have those under control. Don't tighten your fingers, but loosen your hold when you want the chips to co-mingle. Squeeze, then loosen, then squeeze.

Rolling chips one-handed from one end of a stack to the other is the easiest to master. Bring a chip up from the center and turning it and replacing it takes more time.

I always struggled to roll a chip on my knuckles, but done right, this looks real slick. Beginning magic books should help you with this, they use silver dollars for their coin close work, but the idea is the same with chips.

Also learn with worn chips, Horseshoe chips are perfect, the rounded edges are very forgiving.

MS Sunshine

[GrannyMae]

Squeeze, then loosen, then squeeze



hmmmm...

tell leslie(sp?) you are going for a pack of Camels, and come on over. i'll leave the door cracked.

pretend you are a burgular when you enter please, i have a fantasy about being manhandled by an intruder.

just stay the hell away from the kitty-cat tho, or i'll call the coppers.

http://users.telenet.be/eforum/emoticons4u/violent/sterb108.gif

[thwang99]

gamboolman wrote:
"How many depends on your hand size."

Isn't this a huge tell?

[Cubs fan]

Being able to shuffle a stack of chips is a sign of a misspent youth.

Ain't it the truth, I know a guy who can shuffle 3 stacks into one. Sometimes I think shuffling checks takes my attention away from the game a bit.

WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR !!

[RollaJ]

Squeeze, then loosen, then squeeze

depends on your hand size.........practice at home, ......A few hundred hours later and ....you will be doing it like every one else. Some say it's a sign of a problem??

I have no problem with it, and it keeps me from getting bored and playing too many hands /forums/images/icons/grin.gif

http://a1468.g.akamai.net/f/1468/580/1d/pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/13351/200.jpghttp://a1468.g.akamai.net/f/1468/580/1d/pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/38115/300.jpg

[wdbaker]

Rolling chips one-handed from one end of a stack to the other is the easiest to master. Bring a chip up from the center and turning it and replacing it takes more time.

I always struggled to roll a chip on my knuckles, but done right, this looks real slick. Beginning magic books should help you with this, they use silver dollars for their coin close work, but the idea is the same with chips.

Still am not getting a visual of what you are talking about here, I got the chip shuffling thing down but I've never seen anyone do what your talking about so need a more vivid explanation and since you seem to be a writer my guess is you'll be able to clear this up with some decisive prolific prose /forums/images/icons/grin.gif

Or is there somewhere online that I haven't discovered that has better descriptions and instructions for these tricks, maybe even a short movie showing them in action. This would be a great idea for one of the poker websites to document this kind of radical poker behaviour /forums/images/icons/grin.gif

[wdbaker]

Pushing this back to the top, anyone explain the rolling chip thang.

[MS Sunshine]

Sorry

I read the post and meant to get back to it. ty for ttt

Hold your right hand as if you are turning a doorknob about the size of a chip. When your thumb is at 12 o'clock put 4-5 chips into the barrel that your fingers have formed.

Start with the chip closest to the fingertips near the bottom of the chip near the little finger, Lightly lift and roll thumb away from fingertips. The chip should slide over the other chips and you slide into place on the other side of the stack farthest from where it came from.

Once you have the speed up, you can do 5 chips in 3-5 seconds, then pick a chip from the center with your thumb and move that to the end. Once your control is down start turning the chip 180 degrees when you have pulled it up from the others.

MS Sunshine

[ZManODS]

Is that basically using your fingers to take a chip off the bottom of the stack and bringing it to the top??? Im confused.

[wdbaker]

ZManODS,
Glad that you asked, I was wondering the same thing, just didn't want MS to know that I couldn't figure it out..... oops, cat is out of the bag /forums/images/icons/grin.gif

[MS Sunshine]

The stack is horizontal and you are moving chips from one end to the other.

MS Sunshine

[jasonHoldEm]

I was bored...here's some other chip/coin related tricks I found....

http://members.iweb.net.au/~kith/juggling/Micro/coin/coin_s.htm

peace,
jHE

[lorinda]

Dropping a chip onto the felt so that it bounces and lands on top of a stack of 19 to complete the stack is my favorite.

Placing two stacks a chips width apart and bouncing a chip onto the felt so that it jumps forward and then rolls back and sticks between the two stacks is another that I do rather too much as well.

Lori

[wdbaker]

All I can say is WOW ! ! !

[wdbaker]

Lorinda,
Other than chip shuffling, what are the must have quintessential tricks, the ones that if you don't know em you're just not with it.