Butterfly
The butterfly is probably the coolest looking poker chip trick there is. It’s the most difficult too! Evelyn Ng performed this trick on a segment of “The Nuts” during the 2004 World Series of Poker. Antonio Esfandiari does a variation of this trick, but it’s quite a bit different.
Before you begin
Trick Difficulty - 3
Chips needed - 4
Tutorial
Hold all four chips between the index and ring fingers (perpendicular to the fingers), with the middle finger bracing the back of the chips. The grip is exactly the same as when you start the thumb flip. The chips should be about 1/2 an inch to an inch from your finger tips.
Begin by loosening the two chips closest to the palm with your thumb. As you lift these two chips and roll them onto your index finger, you also drop your ring finger, pulling the other two chips away with it. Start moving the pinky up towards the index finger.
As you pull the ring finger out, the pinky will soon be high enough to come in contact with the chips held by the ring and index fingers. Use the index and middle fingers to help move these two chips into a postion held by the ring and pinky fingers.
Make sure the grip with these two fingers is very strong, since the pinky is the weakest finger of the hand.
When the ring and pinky fingers have a firm grip on the two chips, release the index finger, which should be left holding two chips with the thumb. At this point you should have two chips held by the index finger and thumb and two chips held by the ring and pinky fingers.
Bend the middle finger in towards the palm of your hand. Once it passes the chips, move the two sets of chips together. As them come together, position the middle finger so that it can touch both sets of chips. Place pressure on the chips with your middle finger.
Use your thumb to pull the inner most top chip away from the middle finger. Use the pinky to pull the outer most bottom chip away from the middle finger. As you pull the thumb up and the pinky down, the middle finger moves back out away from the palm, rolling a chip along the index finger and another along the ring finger. At this point you should have a chip in each of the four gaps between the fingers.
Fanning out the chips is extremely difficult and will take a lot of practice.
Comment #20 by jon
October 25th, 2004 @ 1:50 PM
this is a cool trick but how do u bring it back together after u fan it?
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October 22nd, 2004 @ 11:50 AM
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Comment #15 by Mark
October 20th, 2004 @ 10:56 PM
I am a fine poker player. So now ive started on chip tricks, now i dont have the smooth chips i have the rigged P.O.S. chips now is these moves easier with the smooth chips or am i just not good at this?
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October 18th, 2004 @ 10:23 AM
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October 18th, 2004 @ 10:21 AM
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Comment #11 by Nick
October 14th, 2004 @ 5:11 PM
1) Loosen the two top chips with your thumb and then pull them up away from the other two chips that you’ll be moving down.
2) First loosen the inner chip with your thumb, then the outer chip. This should allow you to only grab these two chips with your thumb and easily pull the middle chip out.