Any poker player who has spent more than a few months at a live poker table will quickly find himself unconsciously falling into the art of shuffling online poker chips. Turn on any live broadcast of the World Poker Tour or the WSOP and you’ll hear the ever present background noise of chips on chips, endlessly worked in like white noise to any room.

Learning to shuffle chips is an act that is fairly easy to master, with a bit of practice at the online poker tables from hours logged. The general method is to begin with two like-sized stacks of chips, starting small. Place the two stacks side by side with your hand encompassing both, thumb on the bottom of one stack, ring finger at the bottom of the other. With the two fingers in between you will put pressure on the center of the stack, meanwhile lifting slightly from the bottom with your pointer fingers and pressing in on both sides.

With some practice you will see it happen sloppily, and as more time passes it eventually just falls into place. Suddenly your hands will just understand, and you can then begin to learn to shuffle larger and larger stacks, as large as your hand size allows.

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