Shuffle
Can you name a player that you haven’t seen shuffle chips during the World Poker Tour or World Series of Poker episodes? The sound of shuffling chips can be heard in poker rooms around the world. It happens to be my favorite trick, because once you learn it, you can’t stop. Another popular name for the shuffle is “riffle.”
Before you begin
Trick Difficulty - 2
Chips needed - 6 or more (even numbers work best)
Tutorial
To start this trick, place two stacks of chips (3 chips per stack) side by side on a table.
Practice on a table with a soft surface (such as a poker table) or on a hard pillow. A softer surface will make it easier to lift each stack properly.
For each stack use a different color of poker chip. This will allow you to see if the chips were properly shuffled.
The tutorial will explain how to perform the trick with your right hand.
Start by placing the thumb on the lower left corner of the left stack and the index finger on the upper left corner. The middle finger is placed in the space between the top of the two stacks. The ring finger is placed on the upper right corner of the right stack and the pinky on the lower right corner.
Others like to place the thumb at the middle of the left stack, the index finger in the space at the top of the two stacks, and the other three fingers on the right side of the right stack. I believe this method is harder because you don’t have as much control over the left stack. By using two fingers on the sides of each stack you have much more stability.
Lift up on both stacks with the middle finger. As you lift, lightly push each stack in with the fingers holding the outside edges. Ease up on the pressure applied by the middle finger, let gravity takes its course, and the two stacks will come together as one, alternating chips from each stack.
Once you learn the trick, you don’t even actually push the stacks in. You can use all of your fingers to lift up the stacks and by lifting a little bit more with the middle finger, the chips will easily fall into place.
The Shuffle mousepad makes a place to practice this chip trick on. The mousepad has a soft cloth surface with padding that will allow you to easily pick the chips up. It makes a great gift for the poker player who plays online poker at home or takes a few poker chips to work to practice their tricks.Videos
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Comment #40 by Nick
November 2nd, 2004 @ 9:07 AM
Actually, it’s me, Nick.
Glad I can help out!
Comment #39 by Jack
November 2nd, 2004 @ 12:51 AM
I do it the webmaster’s way and that is the only way that works for me. I can do stacks of 4 and stacks of 5 very slowly. Stacks of 6 are about my limit, but I am getting better fast. I am having trouble with the chips not getting far enough in. They hang out and then I have to keep them from tipping over.
Comment #38 by Travis
November 1st, 2004 @ 11:48 PM
I started this about 30-45 minutes ago, and when I started I felt like I was physically retarded in my hands. But like everyone else, I got it! I used the same technique as the webmaster used with the index on front left corner of left stack, thumb on back left corner of left stack, ring on front right corner of right stack and pinky on back right corner of right stack.
**The secret for me was getting a little clearance off of the surface before giving pressure!!**
Doing ^ allows the bottom chip to drop easier and the chips seems to slide into place from there.
If you fail, try, try again.
I can’t wait to show my friends with this, they always try it just to see who can even get half of them shuffled but when I show them the look on their faces will be hilarious. THANKS WEBMASTER (Brad, I think!)
-Travis
Comment #37 by Brad
October 31st, 2004 @ 5:45 PM
For those of you floundering on this shuffle as I did try this. I started just letting my fingers end up where they felt most comfortable first of all I was confused by the left and right placement of the chips what I found is put your left or forward stack at eleven oclock and your right or back stack at five oclock. Use your index and middle finger on the forward stack and your ring and pinky on the back stack and use your thumb for lifting. I find my thumb starting off mostly on the forward stack and ending up pushing in from the back stack. Try that a few times and see if it feels more comfortable to you.
Maybe there is a problem with this method but I can do six in a stack easily and thats all I need for my satisfaction.
Good luck
Brad
Comment #36 by N
October 30th, 2004 @ 12:20 AM
If you’re having trouble doing larger stacks, I would suggest using the middle finger to lift, as opposed to the thumb or index finger. I was using the thumb and doing stacks of 8 or 10 easily, but after switching to the middle finger I was able to 20. The two fingers holding each stack makes it much easier to prevent the top chips from sliding.
Comment #35 by abeal
October 26th, 2004 @ 7:10 AM
comment 31 by bleek was very useful for me. thanks
Comment #34 by cory
October 25th, 2004 @ 11:18 PM
someone i tohught might be cool…. the shuffle with three stacks of chips… it would look pretty sweet if done so post if you can do it
Comment #33 by Jamie Leary
October 24th, 2004 @ 11:22 PM
I don’t know if anyone has posted this little note, But if you don’t have a poker table ones pc mouse pad works pretty well.
Comment #32 by matt
October 20th, 2004 @ 6:04 PM
I could get chips to shuffle by using my pointer to lift but after looking at this i can get it time after time without dropping any
Comment #31 by Bleek
October 19th, 2004 @ 10:55 PM
Key for me was geting the very bottom chip to slide under.. once i lurned to push it under a little with my thumb all i had to do was pull my hand up and the chips fell into place.. if U dont push the chips in good at the bottom they fall all over the place. watch how the first chip on the very bottom is pushed in.. this helped me alot.