A Big Slinky: 4 Chips Stepping Down 5 Stacks

By FlipJumper | March 29, 2008

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 Sitters after catching the Jumpers.

The other concept is a variation I call a Switcher. This is when you switch the Jumpers and Catchers after each jump onto a Sitter stack. On each jump you put the Catchers down overhanging the Sitters.

• The Sitters then become the new Base.
• The Catchers become the new Jumpers.
• The Jumpers become the new Catchers.

And then do it again, etc. It’s easy to do since the stacking can be very loose.

In the video, I start with 3 stacks of 20 chips, plus the 4 chips I’m going to Slinky with. I split out the stacks so there are stacks of 20(K), 16(G), 12(C), 8 and 4 chips. Then I start at the top, and Slinky on down.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: Slinky 4 Down 5
2K2G-s2G2C-s2C28-s2824-s242

Slinky 4 Down 5 - 0:23

* Slinky is a registered trademark. Watch a cool old Slinky commercial.

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A Couple of Quad Flip Jumps

By FlipJumper | March 5, 2008

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 do without getting a Pullover, stacking is really important. I then went for a taller 11 chip jump with 1-1-2-3 Jumpers. It took a while to get this one, the intermediate stacks kept moving, thus many Pullovers.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: 2 Quads
131-122-113-104
191-182-263-335

2 Quads - 0:32

Until next time, flip on.

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The Minimals: 3 and 4 Chips

By FlipJumper | February 29, 2008

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 Chip Flip Jump with most poker chips is 4 chips, and once again, with Sharpies you can do it with 3 chips. Using Sharpies also increases the number of different variations that are possible with any given number of chips, since you can do the Zeros.

3 Chips

As is probably obvious, with 3 Rounders you can do the most basic of all Chip Flip Jumps, the 111, 1 off 1 onto 1. With Sharpies you can add 3 more variations, 2 single-jumps and a double-jump.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: 3 Chips
111
102, 201
111-102
3 Chips - 0:34

4 Rounders

There are 4 variations that can be done with 4 Rounders, 3 single-jumps and the one true minimal double-jump.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: 4 Rounders
112, 211, 121
121-112
4 Rounders - 0:24

4 Sharpies

When you use 4 Sharpies, there are 7 additional variations that are possible, 3 single-jumps, 3 double-jumps and a triple-jump. This gives you a total of 11 variations that are possible with 4 chips.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: 4 Sharpies
103, 301, 202
211-103, 112-103, 121-202
121-112-103
4 Sharpies - 0:55

As you can see, the number of possible variations greatly increases with each chip you add. I’ve done the 11 possible variations with 5 Rounders, but I don’t know how many more jumps are perhaps possible with Sharpies.

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The Zeros and Tiddlys, Sharpies and Rounders

By FlipJumper | January 21, 2008

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 a sharp enough edge, and some even have a very rounded or beveled edge, (I call all of these Rounders).

The 101 Test

The simplest way to see which type chips you have is to do the ‘101 Test’. If you’re able to do it, the chips are Sharpies, if not, they’re Rounders, which end up doing what I call a Tiddly, named after the game Tiddlywinks.

The first video below shows four types of chips doing the ‘101 Test’.

• New Paulson chips – Sharpies which can do a 101 with no problem.
• Used Paulson chips from my local Chumash casino – Occasionally you can pull off a 101, but not consistently. They’ve become Rounders due to heavy use and machine cleaning..
• Chipco Ceramic chips – Have a very rounded edge and do Tiddlys only, with an occasional front flip.
• Common Composite chips – Have a beveled edge and do Tiddlys only, and are almost controllable.

101 Test - 1:15

The Other Zero

Since a flip jump with no Jumper isn’t really a flip jump at all, (except maybe in your imagination), the only other Zero would be done with no Catcher stack.

The 420 example in the next video is really more of a Finger Flip Jump than a Chip Flip Jump, since you flip the Jumpers off the Base with your finger, and you don’t catch them. It’s not hard to do, and is usually done around here when it’s ‘break time’.

The Other Zero - 0:10

Until next time, keep Flip Jumping

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