Poker Chip Tricks

There are more ways than taking home the pot to intimidate your opponent and show your poker savvy. Over the years people with time and a poker chip on their hands have developed many interesting tricks that can be done with a poker chip. Based on the various ways to manipulate a coin, the slightly bigger poker chip is light enough to make sleight of hand tricks fun and entertaining. Plus, after a fancy riffle shuffle and quick deal, landing your chips in the pot with finesse can intimidate your opponents into not even trying that bluff.

If you are interested in adding poker chip tricks to your repertoire of poker skills, there are an abundance of books, videos and web sites that will give you the information you need to become skilled in this fun past time. There are poker chip tricks that have developed individual casino associations.

The Poker Chip twirl looks really cool as you drop the middle chip out of a set of three down and spin it around a few times before sliding it back into place. The Poker Chip Shuffle is a great trick to use to assemble small piles of chips into one column. Dare your opponent to try and watch him fumble chips everywhere. The Front to Back poker chip flip may not look as fancy as the Twirl but it can still be used effectively to distract and unnerve your opponent.

The Knuckle Roll Poker Chip Trick is a perennial favorite and has found uses in many forms of entertainment. Rolling the chip from one side of the hand to the other across the top of your knuckles is a gravity defying smooth way to pass a coin across to someone. During the 2003 World Series of Poker, Dutch Boyd demonstrated the awesome Poker Chip Roll as he launched chips across the table from hand to hand.

The Antonio The Magician Poker Chip Trick is hard to master, but once you get it right can be another good intimidation move to keep your opponent off balance when he thinks you are upping two chips but three appear on the felt. Johnny Chan offers an eastern style of the poker chip shuffle which has been featured in popular Hollywood movies.

So read up either online or from a poker chip trick book and soon you will be amazing your playing partners with the flair of a professional poker winner.