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 do three [...]

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 of the [...]

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 to [...]

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 a Combination [...]

The Zeros and Tiddlys, Sharpies and Rounders

Photo by Randy Morse
I didn’t think the Zeros were possible until I bought some New Paulson poker chips. By Zeros, I mean a Chip Flip Jump poker chip trick done without a Base stack. It’s only possible to do with chips that have a very sharp edge, (which I call Sharpies). Most chips don’t have [...]

Combinations and The Art of Stacking

One of the keys to doing a successful Chip Flip Jump Combination is the pre-flip stacking. You generally need to drop the first stack tight, or with little overhang, and then each successive stack looser, with more overhang. It also helps to really ‘drop’ the chips as you’re stacking them, as it tends to ‘set’ [...]