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Stacking chips in live play

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  1. Gowon Gowon is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 9:09am)

    So, I have a weird question when it comes to stacking your actual chips in live play. Does anyone have any fun variations on it? I almost always end up stacking mine in a triangular fashion with 4 behind then 3, 2, 1 forming a triangle and then start a new "triangle" on top. This way it makes it easy in 2/5 NL knowing all your bottom set of chips is $1k and if you complete the whole pyramid up on top it is $2k in $5 chips.

    I always do this, or I stack them in 40's high tightly together.

    I get bored a lot at the table and I constantly think of creative ways to stack them because I'm always finding myself having to do something to not go crazy after 8 or 12 tabling online, and I've played thousands of hours live but still!

    Anyway. Back to the point, any creative innovative ways to stack your chips? :)
  2. Fife19 Fife19 is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 9:14am) in reply to Gowon



    ****Carlos Mortensen creates the stratosphere w/ WSOP chips.****
  3. eddie24b eddie24b is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 9:52am) in reply to Fife19

    most of the time i only have one chip so how would i stack ummmmmm...

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  4. LeftyMark LeftyMark is offline Boss of Birds

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 11:48am) in reply to Gowon

    Yeah there are only so many ways I can stack 3 or 4 chips.
  5. bullseye180 bullseye180 is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 11:55am) in reply to LeftyMark

    looks like carlos was also a world class leggo player and was being paid by the strasphere for some very original advertising.
  6. BillMueller BillMueller is offline OT President

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 12:14pm) in reply to bullseye180

    I only play online, so the real question is; how do you stack your chips while playing online?
  7. Redline Speed Redline Speed is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 12:16pm) in reply to BillMueller

    JENGA!
     
  8. luciano luciano is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 12:19pm) in reply to Fife19

    I wish you would have never posted that picture Fife, now I will be trying to do what Carlos did all day. How did he do that? Looks like a tripod from that shitty movie War of the Worlds.
  9. RQSS RQSS is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 12:31pm) in reply to Fife19

    To me, that picture looks like the Space Needle in Seattle.
  10. luciano luciano is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 12:44pm) in reply to RQSS

    yeah it does look like the space needle
  11. m4ch1n3 m4ch1n3 is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 2:36pm) in reply to Fife19

    Question:
    When Mortensen (or anyone for that matter) starts to take that stack down and it falls apart and some chips fall in the pot, do they stay in the pot? Does it make a difference whether or not he is involved in the hand?

    If they stay in the pot, I'd be too paranoid to do anything like that.
  12. SICKTIGHT311 SICKTIGHT311 is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 2:40pm) in reply to Gowon

    Stack you very much!
  13. aj_law aj_law is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 3:48pm) in reply to m4ch1n3

    Or, how about then the beverage girl walks by in a mini, he snaps his neck trying to catch a look and accidentally knocks the thing over. In the process, his chips get mixed up with the players on either side of him. Worse yet, when it goes over, it takes out a few of the stacks of one of his neighbors.

    Guaranteed I'd come out ahead in that deal...

    Kinda reminds me of how some people try to "match up stacks" when one player is all in. On more than one occasion, I've seen a player spill his chips into his opponents stack. It usually takes awhile to get everything straightened out.

    Do everybody at the table a favor...keep your chips away from everyone else's unless they're on their way into the pot. If there's even a remote chance that your chips could get mixed up with another player's chips, do everything in your power to minimize the likelihood of it happening. With that said, as to the chip towers like the one picture above...save it for Jenga night.
  14. TMLMS13 TMLMS13 is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 3:50pm) in reply to luciano

    or the CN tower in Toronto
  15. R_U_Nuts R_U_Nuts is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2007 (4/2/2007 5:05pm) in reply to Gowon

    I like to stack em 25 high with a green chip on top(I assume green is a 25$ chip everywhere) so each stack is 150 and I dont like the pyramid I like the wall. When I hit 1k though you have to start the pyramid or you start getting into other peoples space and I dont know about you but I always seem to be sitting right next to some huge dude that takes up like 2 spots. Now yesterday I played and got up about 800$ and I sold off 600$ in red to the dealer just to keep the game moveing. So then I had a nice little tower of green and I really liked that!
  16. cerF cerF is offline

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    Apr 3rd, 2007 (4/3/2007 2:26pm) in reply to Gowon

    I stack my chips like i stack my ki's of coke. Staircase BAYBEE!

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