Re: chip tricks
I love doing the chip shuffle. I play mostly lower limit games (6/12 and under), so I run into many players who don't know how to do it. It's a great conversation starter as I show folks sitting next to me (not during a hand, of course) how to do it. A friendly table is a loose table, and I like loose tables. Similarly, sometimes someone will see me shuffling a stack and comment that I must be a "pro" or something if I can do that. I just laugh and say, "nah, this just means I spend way too much time losing money playing poker," or, "Well, I have to have something to do when I'm not busy losing money," Inevitably gets a laugh and again, it starts conversation. Light, friendly chit-chat. The more they're talking, the less they're paying attention to cards.
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