How to Shuffle Poker Chips the Right Way

If you are learning how to shuffle poker chips, one of the most important lessons is to make sure that all of your hands are mixed up equally. In order to do this, it is important to memorize the face up and face down cards before you start shuffling. The way that you do this is to have a paper and pencil in hand while you are seated as well as a full sleeve napkin on which you will write down the numbers on. This will help you see which hands you should be using to play certain hands. 

When you learn how to shuffle poker chips you want to start with six coins: Start with six coins, place them randomly on the table in front of you. Do a standard chip shuffling with those six coins. Now divide the chips equally into two stacks of six each. 

Now that the two stack of chips is done: you will want to turn the deck over so that there are four stacks facing up. Once you have done this, you will want to do another round of standard chip shuffling with the six chip stacks. Make sure that each of the six stacks is shuffled as well as face down. Once you have shuffled these chips, you will do a final round of standard shuffling with the single chip stack. Do this and then turn the deck over and do another round of practice shuffling with the single chip stack. 

After doing all of these steps: it will then be time to work on the third stack of chips. You will have two options here. You can either keep these chips or put them to the bottom of your chips pile next to the spade. If you choose to put these chips to the bottom, then you will have an easier time when it comes to seeing what your opponent is up to. If you decide to keep them, then you will be able to easily tell what your opponent is up to because you will have already dealt with their alternative colors before hand. 

When you are doing the shuffling: it is very important that you do not switch hands too fast. For some reason, many people believe that they need to swap rapidly from one poker chip to another. What you are trying to do is flip your stacks quickly from two equal stacks to one stack before putting your money in the middle. The reason you need to flip your stacks quickly is that if you go too long without putting the money into the middle, then your opponent will be able to switch from their two equal stacks to your one stack pretty quickly. 

When you have finished dealing with one pair of chips and you are ready to handle the second: then it is time to switch from your single to your double and do a quick top hand. Before you put your money into the pot, you should put your dominant hand into the middle of the pot. For this reason, if you have a good hand, then you should put your opponents bet into the middle. For most people, it is better to put the most chips in the middle, but if you have two equally matched chips, then you should put the opposition’s chip into the middle as well. It may be more difficult to get your opponents to drop their bet into the middle of the pot with two equally matched chip stacks.

But remember that it is still much easier to get them to fold to your hand than it is for your opponents to drop their bets into the middle of the pot.