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 #80 by Nick
January 4th, 2005 @ 9:35 AM
Hey folks. I use the middle finger method as shown in my videos. I can do 8 on a side without a problem now and I’m sure I could do more if I tried. It’s all a matter of time and pracice. Keep practicing at the highest number you can do and it’ll become second nature. Then add one chip to each side and keep increasing them. You’ll get there…
Comment #79 by Josh
January 4th, 2005 @ 2:17 AM
i can do it consistently with stacks of 3, 4, or 5, but anything above that, i can’t get them together. Either some of them slide out at the bottom, or both stacks entirely fall all over the place. How do you do bigger stacks? I use the middle-finger-lift method.
Comment #78 by Ray
January 3rd, 2005 @ 10:02 AM
It’s all one motion and it works better than concentrating too hard. I found the key to be allowing the middle finger to angle in towards your body so that it picks the chips up just unevenly enough to allow them to be pushed together. If I tried to point the soft peak of your finger right into the middle (where you would think it should be) it did’t work nearly as good. Look at the second pic and make sure your middle finger is positioned that way.
Comment #77 by Steve
January 2nd, 2005 @ 9:41 PM
Simple enough the secret is you lift, slightly push and then let the chips drop and square up
Comment #76 by Chris
January 2nd, 2005 @ 9:28 PM
It’s Alot easier to understand if u try it on a soft surface, like a pillow
Comment #75 by Bill
January 2nd, 2005 @ 5:54 PM
As a fellow poker player and webmaster I have to say this is a great site! The videos and CSS work perfectly, it’s so clean and simple.
I can do this trick fine with stacks of 5 but it starts to get tough for me from there. Everything works till the very top where the top chip from the right hand pile refuses to slide in to the stack leaving 2 in a row from the left pile. Anyone else have this problem?
Comment #74 by Steve M
December 23rd, 2004 @ 4:16 PM
Well, I was able to do 18 chips (2 stacks of 9) … seems like 10 is gonna be a problem without surgical intervention
Comment #73 by Matt
December 23rd, 2004 @ 12:46 AM
Alright…i can get the chips to shuffle but when i try to slide them in it seems that the chips just overflow over my fingers and it all falls apart.
Comment #72 by Chris
December 22nd, 2004 @ 3:00 PM
OK…after re-reading this page 100 times…make sure you are using a soft surface for your chips. I was trying on a wooden table for hours with minimal sucess. I dont have a poker table, so I folded up a blanket and used a corner of it.
Now I am making steady progress!!
Comment #71 by Ken
December 22nd, 2004 @ 12:38 PM
hey ProPain…….just take it slowly….i started w/ 2 stacks of 4….then moved to 6….now im on 8….keep making ur stacks bigger and dont move bigger until u can do the amount ur on….i was trying to do 5….and i couldnt really well so i moved on to 8….now i can do 8 ok and 5 w/ no prob