Also, it's much better to practice on a felt table if you have one, but carpet is preferable to a desk or hard surface. Each type of chips has its own feel, and it takes some getting used to. Hence the chip shuffle is more appropriately called The Riffle.Clay chips are best, but composites work. As a former dealer, we don't 'shuffle' cards, we give it three riffles, a box, and a cut. The RiffleA riffle is a technical term for how a deck of cards is shuffled. And looking like an idiot negates the purpose of learning cool chip tricks. Until then practice with whites, because you'll look like an idiot if you lose a green or a black this way. When you're at the final table of the WSOP and you need to look intimidating, I'm sure that by then, you'll have logged the hours required to look like a badass shuffling $1M chips.

Well, I can't do those, but I can teach you the more common ones, so you don't look like a total newb when you sit in a casino for your first time.When you're at a live tournament/cash game, don't forget the number one rule of learning to play with chips: ALWAYS PLAY WITH YOUR LOWEST DENOMINATION. So, here's an 1800+ word post of instructions on how you can teach yourself 5 basic chip tricks.I'm sure everyone saw the vignette in the WSOP with Evelyn Ng, Dutch Boyd, and Antonio Esfandiari, and those absolutely crazy chip tricks they did. For my 300th post, I thought I'd do something cool and lighthearted.

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