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Chip Tricks

Juggling champagne bottles is a great trick that bartenders have been doing to attract clientele. Similarly in the poker world, chip tricks have of age. Chip tricks are manipulations of poker chips and are a way of passing time, showing off or even intimidating fellow poker players.

Today players and spectators alike welcome unique skills at a table and consider anyone able to do masterful chip tricks and poker card handling as someone who "really knows how to play poker!". The same holds true for the cheque handling skills of the dealer as well.

A few tricks currently in vogue include the Butterfly where a stack of four chips is evenly spread out between the five fingers and the Flip where in the front chip in the stack is flipped to the back of the stack. Some other interesting poker tricks include the Knuckle Roll, the Muscle Pass and Round the clock. Chip tricks can also be used as tells by experienced hands. They will tell you that great hands trigger strange reactions in the competitors will tell you that chip tricks can be a dead give away for a few players as well. A straight flush may trigger a knuckle roll in a few players