Flip Jumps

An Interesting Chip Flip Jump and Shuffle Mix

Photo by Randy Morse Many of you are familiar with the Poker Chip Shuffle trick. When you start with an 8-chip stack, 4 of one color on top of 4 of another color, and then Shuffle three times, you end up with the same 4-on-4 stack you started with. The same thing happens when you [...]

A Big Slinky: 4 Chips Stepping Down 5 Stacks

Photo by Randy Morse In order to do a Big Slinky* poker chip trick, you need to understand a couple of concepts I haven’t elaborated on before. The first is the use of a Sitter stack, which is a shorter chip stack sitting next to the Base stack. The Catchers are put down on top [...]

A Couple of Quad Flip Jumps

Photo by Randy Morse I finally spent some time working on doing a one-handed Quadruple Chip Flip Jump. I’ve been able to do a Two-Handed Quad for a long time. After I discovered I could do the Zeros, I set out to pull off a Sharpie Quad, a 5 chip 131-122-113-104. It’s a little tricky [...]

The Minimals: 3 and 4 Chips

Photo by Randy Morse The minimum number of chips necessary to do a Single Chip Flip Jump with most poker chips is 3 chips. As you saw in the last post, (The Zeros and Tiddlys, Sharpies and Rounders), with Sharpies you can do it with 2 chips. The minimum number of chips necessary to do [...]