After receving a colonoscopy from my proctologist he told me I stack my chips like a tight ass...

I think for some people it says a lot about their personality, but as others have states, it's not a guaranteed tell.

I stack my chips in stacks of 20, and in very orderly rows/columns, etc. I figure they come from a rack that way for a reason, so I keep them as such. I also like to have an idea of how much money I'm sitting with at all times, so it's much easier to do that when they are neat and tidy. When I see other people with dirty stacks, I get anxiety! LOL!

Having said this, my personality is such that I need to be very neat and orderly in order to have my sanity and peace of mind, whether this is at work, or at home, etc. I think I exhibit traits of OCD to some degree, and if I am bored or card dead, you will see me stacking my chips so that all the lines line up.

Whenever I see people at the poker room with a big mess of chips, or random stacks, I always think they are probably looser and fishier than the average player. While I understand that people may do this to give off false tells, I'm fairly certain that most of the people at low limits probably aren't aware/smart/conscious enough to do that, nor are typical players there aware/smart/conscious enough to pay attention to these types of tells/false tells either way.

I generally play red chip games, and will buy in with all green and black. As I get red chips they go in stacks of 20 behind the larger denoms and do the classic triangle. I also stack lower denoms ($1's and 2's for tips/blinds/son's savings account)

When I get more than 6 stacks of red I color up. I very often have 2-3k in a red chip game with less than 1 stack of red simply because I don't like having 400+ chips in front of me.

It often results in funny looks from new players that come to the table, try to size up the chip counts and then realize my 2 or 3 stacks have everyone else covered.

What does that say about me?

Hmm, thanks for the info. not that I'm gonna change the way I stack my chips cuz I'm still clumsy, but interesting to know that I might give off a vibe (and interesting that the vibe might not last long).

I've always stacked my chips in stacks of 10 until I start getting too many stacks, then I switch to stacks of 20. I'm clumsy and tend to knock over tall stacks, and also I am a compulsive stack counter, so stacks of 10 help me with both issues.

I do think it's funny when everyone jumps in saying "it's a tell unless it isn't." So it tells you a lot except for all the times when it tells you nothing (or worse, the wrong thing).

Yeah, it's the only way I can focus on what I'm doing.

I'll start off with stacks of 20, putting the rest into stacks of 10, the rest into stacks of 5, and the final leftovers into a pile on the side mostly for betting. But I like to make vertical pyramids and don't often have enough chips for this (plus, I don't know if you can make vertical pyramids with 20 chip stacks), so I have to use stacks of 10.

Also, when I shuffle chips, I can't use more than 16 chips (my hands aren't big enough to put together a stack of 200), so I sometimes have a stack of 16 on the side (like the one next to my laptop).

And yes, I'm pretty tight, so the tell would work on me. However, seeing my wait a month to play a hand would give you the same information.