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Chip Tricks - The Butterfly

Today, I show you how to improve your image at the table by teaching you how to do another chip trick, the butterfly. The butterfly is probably the coolest looking poker chip trick there is and probably the most difficult.!

To do this trick, you need to have 4 chips. First, hold all four chips between the index and ring fingers (perpendicular to the fingers), At the same time use your middle finger to brace the back of the chips. The chips should be about 1/2 an inch to an inch from your finger tips.

Next begin by loosening the two chips closest to the palm with your thumb. As you lift these two chips and roll them onto your index finger, you also drop your ring finger, pulling the other two chips away with it. Start moving the pinky up towards the index finger.

Pull the ring finger out, and the pinky will soon be high enough to come in contact with the chips held by the ring and index fingers. Use the index and middle fingers to help move these two chips into a postion held by the ring and pinky fingers. Make sure the grip with these two fingers is very strong, since the pinky is the weakest finger of the hand.

When the ring and pinky fingers have a firm grip on the two chips, release your index finger, which should be left holding two chips with the thumb. At this point you should have two chips held by the index finger and thumb and two chips held by the ring and pinky fingers.

Next, you need to bend the middle finger in towards the palm of your hand. Once it passes the chips, move the two sets of chips together. As them come together, position the middle finger so that it can touch both sets of chips. Place pressure on the chips with your middle finger.

Next, you need to use your thumb to pull the inner most top chip away from the middle finger. Use the pinky to pull the outer most bottom chip away from the middle finger. As you pull the thumb up and the pinky down, the middle finger moves back out away from the palm, rolling a chip along the index finger and another along the ring finger. At this point you should have a chip in each of the four gaps between the fingers.

Don’t be frustrated if you don’t get it right away as this is very difficult to do.

Keep practicing and until next time, may the chips fall your way.


by Johnson