Swirl
The Swirl, by Sky Mullenaux, is a variation of the twirl.
Tutorial
The swirl is a simple trick
- Take 3 or 4 chips and hold them like you would for the thumb flip or the regular twirl.
- Now remove your index finger keeping hold of the chips with the thumb and index.
- Pull back your ring finger and get the last chip on your ring finger as close to your nail as you can.
- Roll the chip out and do a twirl with the middle finger.
- After you have twirled it 180 degrees and your index finger is behind the chip push/rotate it a few more degrees and put the chip in front.
Videos
The video can be found with all of the submitted poker chip trick videos.
Updated: July 31, 2005 @ 7:15 pm
Comment #2 by Mal-2
January 23rd, 2006 @ 4:53 AM
Here’s a simpler description if you already can do the twirl:
Do a twirl, but when you put the middle chip back, stick it in the back or front of the stack instead of in the middle. Under-rotate to make it fall to the back, over-rotate to make it go up front. (Told you that was simple.)
If you alternate between front and back and use two or three different chip colors, you get a slow blinking effect. I do a thumb lift of the outer two chips instead of dropping the inner one, so it’s possible to do it very nonchalantly and fairly rapidly. I always know where that middle chip is and don’t have to re-position it before twirling it (and almost never drop it now).
Comment #1 by J.F.
January 5th, 2006 @ 5:19 PM
i believe some of the instructions are wrong, in step #2 it says to remove the index, while keeping hold of the chips with the thumb and index