Roulette is a game of excitement. Unlike the pensive poker player or the slot zombie, Roulette players can often be found standing and shouting, throwing out bets and doubling down on each others’ action.
This can provide a welcome environment for fun-loving gamblers to entertain the table – providing the dealer and the other players don’t mind – with a few slick chip tricks. Most of them take a lot of practice and require some seriously-skilled fingers, but they’re sure to dazzle casino companions of every pedigree.
The Thumb Flip – Holding a short stack of chips with your fore, middle and ring finger, shuffle the first chip to the back. Do this by pushing the chip against your fore finger to go up and over the rest of the stack.
The Butterfly – Take four chips and hold them between your thumb and forefinger. Using the middle finger, pull the two middle chips out, allowing them to fall into a saddle created by your ring finger and thumb. Now allow your middle finger to pass through the gap, using it to separate the chips into four.
The Anti Gravity – More of a magic trick than a chip trick, this move involves learning the ancient art of “palming,” which magicians use to hide coins and other objects in their hands. Usually the goal is to simply keep the coin hidden. However, when too much pressure is applied, the object in the hand will shoot out very quickly. This allows a player to drop a chip from their top hand and then seemingly “drop” it back up from the bottom one.
Once you manage these few tricks, all sorts of ideas will begin coming to you. There are also dozens of tutorials and demonstrations to be learned online. Once you master handling the chips, all that’s left is mastering the way to win more of them.
