How long did it take you to learn how to shuffle chips? (1 Viewer)

[mummel]

I'd really like to get this right. Looks so badass when done right. I know how, just need practice.

 

[BiGGyT]

about $100 worth of online poker. My left hand needed something to do while the right was click click clicking, so I shuffle and twirl better with my left than right,

 

[DrStrange]

I have never mastered this skill, mostly because I didn't try very hard.

 

[GoStumpy]

To be able to do it, probably a couple hours... to get good at it, 5-10 hours... been doing it a hundred hours or more so I don't even have to pay attention anymore I like doing a stack of each color because done right after either 3 or 4 shuffles with 8 chips you're back to your starting colors

 

[72o]

Hard to say an actual amount of time. Maybe a couple of hours of slowly doing it to figure out what needs to be done because your hand position does feel weird as shit at first. But then I just repeated the process while watching TV. For some reason, in the beginning it seemed to be easier for me to shuffle on a soft surface like a couch before moving to the felt or desk.

 

[GoStumpy]

Oh and worn chips or dice chips are much easier to start with than sharp edged mint chips

 

[Dale_Doback]

It's been 15 years +/- since I learned but I don't remember it taking a while. Maybe an hour or so of constantly repeating the motion and starting with 6 chips like the demo says. Everyone's different so just keep at it and eventually you don't even think about how your fingers need to be positioned, you just shuffle em lol.

 

[derekdd23]

i learned how to do it in a few hours, although it took me months to be able to do a lot of chips consistently.

 

[TheBigTater]

I'm in the minority, I don't. (blasphemy, I know)

When I first started playing poker hardly anyone shuffled chips. After the poker boom (2000's) it seems like everyone at the table shuffles and does chip tricks, that's what the guys on TV do. The constant clickin' noise of chip shuffling is really kind of annoying when 8-9 people at the table are doing it at the same time. It becomes white noise that I have a hard time hearing over being half deaf anyway.

/end of negativity.... shuffle on everybody. :

 

[DJ Mack]

Not terribly long. I had the basics down in an hour or so, but I don't shuffle very much because it tends to aggravate the tendons in my hands. I played video games a lot as a kid to the point that I think I may have done some physical damage. This was back in the day nobody had ever heard of carpal tunnel except for in slaughterhouse workers. So I grabbed another Coke and kept playing.

I did mention it during one of my high school sports physicals and the doctor said that while I don't officially have CT, based on my past lifestyle and the symptoms I was describing I'm definitely in the higher risk category to develop it. He gave me a few exercises to strengthen the muscles around those tendons and left me with the basic advice of if it starts to hurt, stop doing whatever it is. It's been 20 years and that advice has served me well. Arching my hand, particularly with more than six chips in the stack, will make it start to hurt after a few dozen lifts. During an evening of play I might do five or six shuffles and that's plenty.

 

[pltrgyst]

I occasionally shuffle with just one chip -- and I've never screwed it up yet.

Anything more than that seems to me to be an indicator of a mind that's not capable of multitasking.

But I like people who shuffle, because shuffling can be rife with tells...

 

[DJ Mack]

But I like people who shuffle, because shuffling can be rife with tells...

Yep. This is why of the few times I do it it only happens before I've seen my cards or between hands.

 

[luckbox]

about $100 worth of online poker. My left hand needed something to do while the right was click click clicking, so I shuffle and twirl better with my left than right,

same here...bought my first 10 to shuffle (curse you tonypap ) when playing online poker, learned pretty quick from hours of sitting online

and that led to over 6,000+ chips over the past years which i have reduced to maybe a comfortable 3,000, may reduce that more in the near future

i keep 16 old school leaded paulson chips on my desk that get shuffled constantly to the point they need cleaning about every 3 months....

need to increase it to a 20 chip stack shuffle but i dont know why

 

[keshaldra]

I can't do it, and every single person I've ever asked, without exception, gives a paraphrased version of the following directions:

1) Line up 2 stacks of even size
2) Place finger between the two stacks
3) Shuffle chips.

I'm serious.

 

[rowlin]

There's a cool old chip trick site called 21ace.com. At one time - maybe around 2005 - they had reviews of all kinds of chips, including video pron of many of them. I think I joined big blue shortly thereafter and never looked back.

I watched a "how to" video on that site and it didn't take very long to learn.

 

[Ronoh]

I can't do it, and every single person I've ever asked, without exception, gives a paraphrased version of the following directions:

1) Line up 2 stacks of even size
2) Place finger between the two stacks
3) Shuffle chips.

I'm serious.

#2 is unnecessary but I don't shuffle the "standard" way. Taught myself while dealing roulette with no players.

 

[Trihonda]

But I like people who shuffle, because shuffling can be rife with tells...

To answer the OP's question. I learned when @abby99 and Albino Dragon taught me at the 2013 WCB. While stuck in traffic on the way home, I shuffled chips to stay sane, perfect my game!

As for tells, I shuffle all the time, and rarely do I change my tempo of shuffling based on my cards. If I do, it's often intentional. A tell someone can take advantage of, is reverse exploitable.

 

[Puggy]

First with 6 chips. Took a couple of hours to learn. Now I shuffle with 14-16 chips. Now also twirls, rolls and butterflies are pretty basic. Since from the beginning I've shuffled a little bit [emoji23]

 

[doakwolf]

Yeah with BiGGy and Puggy. Start with 6 chips and move up. I learned whilst sitting at the PC playing online poker. Probably an hour or two, IDK.

I'm still learning 15 years later - Recently I saw a guy at WSOP shuffling about 10 chips into the top of a tower of about 60 chips which was pretty neat. I had a crack at it and almost got it but never tried again. It looked impressive seeing him do it though.

 

[warewulf]

I started with 4 chips and just slowly added chips. I now prefer to shuffle 16 at a time. Great way to break in chips. However, I also played a lot of video games and work in the I.T. field. So starting to get C.T. also.

 

[Big Jilm]

About six hours straight of trying with used Paulsons and china clays. I started with 8 chips and now I am comfortable with 10 to 12. However, because of my smallish bitch hands (which are clever and shifty like ninjas), that is my current max. That said, I do not shuffle at home (no one does: rules) due to the minty nature of my casino chips. If we have a large tournament (3 tables) I am forced to use my china clay Pharaohs to which I say: shuffle away boys. I also shuffle away online, at casinos, and at card rooms due to fucking boredom/being conservative.

 

[rowlin]

Twelve is my happy number of chips to shuffle, but I otherwise suck at chip tricks.

 

[JamesOwnz]

I can't do it.

 

[ohio3302016]

I constantly shuffle at the table. Great way to give off false tells.

 

[Wils]

I want to be the first one to shuffle three stacks at a time. //Two// is soooo last decade

 

[kaimat]

Hard to say an actual amount of time. Maybe a couple of hours of slowly doing it to figure out what needs to be done because your hand position does feel weird as shit at first. But then I just repeated the process while watching TV. For some reason, in the beginning it seemed to be easier for me to shuffle on a soft surface like a couch before moving to the felt or desk.

I think this is because when you start out it is easier to get under the bottom chips if there is a bit of cushion underneath.

I think I had the basics down in a few hours with a couple chips then just kept adding them.

 

[mummel]

I think this is because when you start out it is easier to get under the bottom chips if there is a bit of cushion underneath.

I think I had the basics down in a few hours with a couple chips then just kept adding them.

I'm up to 12 chips now. I cant do it consistently, but every 5th shuffle or so works

 

[Puggy]

Recently I saw a guy at WSOP shuffling about 10 chips into the top of a tower of about 60 chips which was pretty neat. I had a crack at it and almost got it but never tried again. It looked impressive seeing him do it though.

AFAIK Doyle does that a lot too.

 

[eXtremum]

Learned from a YouTube video, after five minutes. However, I'm still shit at it, because I'm dealing with metal insert 13.5g composite chips, everywhere in the UK. I just stick to practicing my single chip backspin roll, which winds up the regs and dealers, when the chips roll across the table.

And, I dare not scuff up my Nevada Jack ceramic sample set, even though I've heard they cut better than heavier chips.

 

[Ellasdaddy]

Watched a Youtube video on chip tricks and got decent at a few quickly, then stopped and fell off for a long while. Only skill remaining was shuffling. If I go beyond 12 chips, it feels cumbersome and gets messy, so I just stop there.