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Hey, so I will be playing live soon and I'm going to get some chips to practice tricks...dont want to sit at the table and look like a tool, so I would like to give the impression I know what I'm doing...lol....but what would be the best chips to get?..does it matter?...I would rather get ones that are like the ones used live today in the casinos and not some cheap 'poker set' type chip that is unrealistic....I've got a budget of about £10-$16.....thanks
 
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How's your card shuffle? I hate shuffling and dealing, can't do any standard riffles at all.
 
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AlfieAA said:
Hey, so I will be playing live soon and I'm going to get some chips to practice tricks...dont want to sit at the table and look like a tool, so I would like to give the impression I know what I'm doing...lol....but what would be the best chips to get?..does it matter?...I would rather get ones that are like the ones used live today in the casinos and not some cheap 'poker set' type chip that is unrealistic....I've got a budget of about £10-$16.....thanks
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So you just want enough chips to practice chip handling? If so, I'd suggest just going to the casino and buying 10 or 15 chips. Take em home and practice and then you can take them back and play with them later.
 
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Here's what may be the "easiest" and only requires 3 or 4 chips

 
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Caesura said:
How's your card shuffle? I hate shuffling and dealing, can't do any standard riffles at all.
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My shuffling is epic, I make david blaine look like a walrus
 
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WVHillbilly said:
So you just want enough chips to practice chip handling? If so, I'd suggest just going to the casino and buying 10 or 15 chips. Take em home and practice and then you can take them back and play with them later.
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Yeah just enough to do chip handling, learn a few tricks and get a feel for them....good idea about getting them from the casino, didn't know you could do that (never been in a casino sober or with any knowledge before)....thanks
 
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Tried doing the tricks with ten pence pieces but can't get a grip lol
 
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for about 20 bucks u can go to your local walmart or kmart and pick up a chip set their...that how i got use to the chip tricks...
 
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Dreams of Tragedy said:
for about 20 bucks u can go to your local walmart or kmart and pick up a chip set their...that how i got use to the chip tricks...
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Thanks DoT, just got a set of 25 tri-gen clay 11.5g for 10 bucks :)
 
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Now that I've ordered the chips, what trick should I learn first and what ones should I avoid for being a show off douch?.....how many do you guys know and who is an epic trick handler?
 
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Good luck - I have been trying to shuffle them for about 4 years now. No videos or person has ever been of any help at all lol.
 
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dakota-xx said:
Good luck - I have been trying to shuffle them for about 4 years now. No videos or person has ever been of any help at all lol.
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Lol really? I think you may need so help beyond just shuffling chips. :)
 
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dakota-xx said:
Good luck - I have been trying to shuffle them for about 4 years now. No videos or person has ever been of any help at all lol.
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Lol I think you should make it one of your goals for this year to learn a shuffle :D
 
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AlfieAA said:
Now that I've ordered the chips, what trick should I learn first and what ones should I avoid for being a show off douch?.....how many do you guys know and who is an epic trick handler?
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I'd go with the standard shuffle and you really don't need much more than that. Maybe the thumb flip or the three-chip twirl. Much more than that and yeah, you'll end up looking like a douche.

A much more practical (and impressive, to those in the know) skill to master is being able to cut a stack into lots of five/four/whatever with speed and accuracy.

YouTube any of the above for how-to videos, there's tons of them.
 
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Thanks oz.......should I get a sheet of felt to get a good grip with the chips, or does that not really matter?
 
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AlfieAA said:
Thanks oz.......should I get a sheet of felt to get a good grip with the chips, or does that not really matter?
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Doesn't really matter. I'm sitting here at work shuffling a stack of chips on my desk.
 
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WVHillbilly said:
Doesn't really matter. I'm sitting here at work shuffling a stack of chips on my desk.
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I can almost never sit at my computer desk anymore without shuffling even when I'm just browsing the web.
 
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The question is can you do the tricks with "either" hand? Keep practicing.
 
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AlfieAA said:
Thanks oz.......should I get a sheet of felt to get a good grip with the chips, or does that not really matter?
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As WV says it's not a huge issue. The closest household item you'll find to a poker table surface is actually a mouse mat though, if you want to use something.
 
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The only real trick that is worthwhile is making your chips mate and produce offspring, thereby increasing the size of the chip family... :cool:

Anything else is annoying to me at the table...
 
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AlfieAA said:
Thanks oz.......should I get a sheet of felt to get a good grip with the chips, or does that not really matter?
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A padded mousepad is a good piece of "table" to practice on. I like putting a stack of chips on it... and taking the top chip off, dropping it vertically onto the pad "felt" and trying to get it to bounce back onto the top of the stack... its fun.
 
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