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Poker chip tricks
When you watch the pros play poker at the World Series of Poker or on the World Poker Tour, you undoubtedly notice all of the cool poker chip tricks they do.
The most popular poker chip trick is the chip shuffle. To do the chip shuffle you take two stacks of chips, usually equal stacks, and lift the bottom chip of each stack and let gravity shuffle the chips.
The trick to it is to position your thumb in between the two stacks of chips and lift, and use your other four fingers to lift and push the stacks together.
Other popular poker chips tricks include:
- Chip shuffling
- Pull over
- Butterfly
- Chip production
- Hidden chip bet
- Front to back flip
- Twirl
- Twirl reversed anti-gravity
- Thumb flip
- Knuckle roll
- Knuckle roll return
- Chip rolling
- Chip spread
- Sweep
- Bounce stack
The best way to learn to do poker chip tricks is with practice, but instruction doesn't hurt. Instructional DVD videos such as Rich Ferguson's The Official Poker Chip Tricks DVD: Volume 1
can help even the least experienced poker player turn into poker chip trick master in no time. For doing poker chip tricks, we recommend using clay poker chips.
Clay poker chips stack together best and are therefore more forgiving for the beginning poker chip trickster.
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