Stacking Chips (reflect your style?)

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i know this is flawed logic and someone will point it out, but, i like to separate my buy in with my profit. it just lets me know how well i'm doing. i try not to let it affect my play though.

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Furthermore, this is a reflection with a results-oriented definition of winning. It doesn't matter what you started with. It only matters how much you have now in relation to the pot and other players (in an NL game). In a fixed limit game, it doesn't matter at all, since your stack is basically equal to your entire BR unless you are so low in chips that you are all-in.

"Profit" is a fictional concept during the game, since it is only a snapshot of your long term results.

It's not the seperate stacks that affect your play; it's knowing how much you bought in for that does.

[newhizzle]

i make a pyramid the way mason says to do it in GTAOT, stacks are always exactly 20 chips, no more, no less, dont stack stacks on top of stacks, start with 3 in a little pyramid, then just keep adding on to the side until you get a bigger pyramid

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i make a pyramid the way mason says to do it in GTAOT, stacks are always exactly 20 chips, no more, no less, dont stack stacks on top of stacks, start with 3 in a little pyramid, then just keep adding on to the side until you get a bigger pyramid

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At one point, you are going to have to build up instead of out, because there's limited real-estate at ground level. This is why skyscrapers are so popular in big cities.

So, at what point do you add stories to your structure? I would think that at 15 stacks, you would have to build up, or break the pyramid pattern. Possibly 10.

[newhizzle]

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i make a pyramid the way mason says to do it in GTAOT, stacks are always exactly 20 chips, no more, no less, dont stack stacks on top of stacks, start with 3 in a little pyramid, then just keep adding on to the side until you get a bigger pyramid

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At one point, you are going to have to build up instead of out, because there's limited real-estate at ground level. This is why skyscrapers are so popular in big cities.

So, at what point do you add stories to your structure? I would think that at 15 stacks, you would have to build up, or break the pyramid pattern. Possibly 10.

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not until i cant tell which chips are mine and which are my opponents

edit: then ill color up

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I'm sure that obsessively neat stacking might be a tell, but in my (admittedly limited experience), most people are somewhat neat with their stacks.

The place where I've found this tell to be most true is for those people who don't stack their chips neatly. Both at the casino and at the home game, the absolute biggest maniacs I've ever seen made heaps, not stacks of chips. The guy at the casino was amazing: raised every hand, played every hand, lost most of them. When he had chips, they were just a pile mostly in front of him, different denoms mixed together.

In short, like many tells, I think this is most reliable at the extremes, not necessarily for the vast middle who arrange their chips fairly but not obsessively neatly.

I like keeping mine semi organized, in multiple mid-sized stacks. That way I cant tell how much money I have and neither can my opponents. It helps me avoid my tendancy to check my bankroll all the time and watch it grow/shrink.

[SheetWise]

I never arrange. I'll take two stacks of arranged chips from the pot, and shuffle them into a barber pole. I like stacks of mixed color between 15-30 high, arranged randomly. It always amazes me how much time opponents will spend looking to see how much I have. As long as I know, who cares?

[bryan4967]

That's wierd. I stack my chips so I can do the exact opposite. I always like to know how much money I have in front of me at all times. In stacks of twenty.

[yvesaint]

i make mine spell out stuff on the felt like "FISH" or "BLUFF" or even sometimes "DRUNK"

or a smiley face

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I put the high value chips under my small value chips so it looks like I have less than I do. That way, all the people at the home games I play don't catch on to how much better I am than they are. They usually do anyway though, but continue to lose money to me regardless.

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A tip on this, when at home games, the black chips are virtually unnoticeable under a stack of the (usually, at least with my friends), lower denomination dark blue chips.