Combinations and The Art of Stacking

By FlipJumper | November 15, 2007

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’ the stack better to prevent movement. Ideally, you don’t want the Base to move during the jumps.

Pullovers

When an attempted combination jumps more than the expected number of chips, I call it a Pullover. For example, when trying to do a 161-242 and both Jumper stacks flip over at once, you end up with a 341 Pullover. This is the easiest mistake to make, and is usually caused by careless stacking.

Double Combos

The easiest combination to do is the classic 1-2 double. On the first jump you’ve got a Jumper1, and on the second a Jumper2. The following video shows three variations using the same number of jumping chips: The classic 1-2 Double, then the Under & Back, and the Thumb-Slide Double Turnover.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: 3 Double Combinations - 0:22
161-242, 161u-242 and ts1-161t-242t

3 Double Combinations - 0:22

Triple Combos

Stacking for a triple flip jump takes a little more care, with the first Jumper stacked very tight, and the next two getting looser. You really want to ‘set’ the first two stacks so they don’t move. Following are two classic 1-2-3 Trip Flip Jumps, one using ten chips and a harder version using eight, finishing with a 314.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: 1-2-3 Trip Flip Jumps - 0:24
181-262-334 and 161-242-314

1-2-3 Trip Flip Jumps - 0:24

Quad Combos

I’ve not yet been able to pull off a successful 1-handed quad flip jump, although I haven’t tried very hard. However, a two-handed quad is not very hard at all, and the stacking can be rather loose since you’re going off in opposite directions with each flip jump.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: 2-Hand Quad - 0:17
171l-161r-242l-222r

2-Hand Quad - 0:17

Reverse Combo

And then there’s the backward or reverse way of doing a combination. Here you do a fatter Jumper before a skinny one. You need to stack the first Jumper real tight and the second very loose or you’ll get a Pullover for sure.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: Reverse Double Combo - 0:17
251-143

Reverse Double Combo - 0:17

As you can see, a huge number of variations are possible when you start doing combinations. I’ve only just begun to explore the outer limits.

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Single Flip Jumps – Divers, Climbers and Rollovers

By FlipJumper | October 26, 2007

Probably the most obvious observation most people make when they first see the Flip Jump is that Divers are easier to do than Climbers, since Divers go down and Climbers go up, with Rollovers kind of neutral going straight across. In addition to the sheer physics of going up instead of down, you need to be much more precise in you’re pre-jump stacking the higher you’re climbing. It’s easy to smack a 116 into the side of the Catcher6 if it’s not stacked right, very tight.

This trick really starts to get fun when you start using more than a Jumper1 (one-chip Jumper). I like two chips, Jumper2, the best. The mass is just right for a nice controlled jump. Using a Jumper1 on a big climb can get a little wild and hard to control sometimes.

The following video is of a warm-up drill I like to do, a Jumper2 worked down a stack seven times. Three Divers, one Rollover and three Climbers.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: 2 Down 7 - 0:42
271, 262, 253, 244, 235, 226 and 217

2 Down 7 - 0:42

As you start to use fatter Jumpers, (3,4,5 and more chips), again it gets harder the more chips you add. You’ll also notice that it begins to put more pressure on the Base, in a sideways direction, the more chips you’re jumping. If the Jumper stack gets too fat, it will blow the top off the Base and the trick will fail.

You’ll see in the following video that when I do a 532 that it pushes the top chips of the Base3 in the opposite direction from where the jump is going.

Chip Flip Jumps on the video: Fatter Jumpers - 0:28
352, 253, 442, 244, 532 and 235

Fatter Jumpers - 0:28

That’s it for now. Next time we’ll do some Combinations.

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My 1st Flip Jump - The Mexican Jumping Chip

By FlipJumper | October 2, 2007

I first saw the “Mexican Jumping Chip” poker chip trick, introduced by Benji “the Ace” Jaimes, at PokerChipTricks.com. It was really easy to do, and, frankly, not very impressive at first. It seemed so simplistic. That’s why I think most people who try it, do a one chip jump a few times, and then move on to another trick.

It was only when I started exploring the different possibilities that this trick became much more interesting. Jumping more than one chip, doing combinations without re-stacking and trying things I didn’t think were possible continue to be really fun.

(You’ll need to read the “Basics – Describing Flip Jumps” to understand the meaning of the strange numbers below)

I’ve found several other examples of the “Mexican Jumping Chip” using a Google search:

Here’s an interesting animation of a 132. It goes forward and then in reverse back to the start.
The Eman does what looks to be a 1A9 using classic Paulson chips.
Pr0faker on YouTube does two 1D4h jumps, (and a couple of wonderfully planned fumbles).
And finally pokerkid207, also on YouTube, works down what looks like a 1G4, 1F5 and 1E6.

It’s great, everyone has a different idea about one of the most basic Chip Flip Jumps. There were many more sites listed in the search, but they began to refer back to the above examples.

Here’s my take on working one chip down a stack six times: 1 Down 6 - 0:26
161, 152, 143, 134, 125 and 116. Three Divers and three Climbers.

1 Down 6 - 0:26