its a good way to give off a reverse tell of you being new to poker because I've never seen anyone use 10 stacks and not go broke.

use it to level people into folding to your bluff-raises when you are reaping super thin cuz "fish can't bluff in this spot"!

winner. i'm stealing that term

You have just guaranteed I use 10 stacks for the rest of my life.

Indeed it is my son, indeed it is...

You may be the exception but in 20 years of dealing not one
who stacks under 20 knows how to handle chips or play poker.

I like stacks of 30 or 40. If I have over 400 chips I stack 50 high.

If I have 40 chips they're in one stack.

Bless you. Not only does this protect you from betting an incorrect amount by mistake, but it also effectively completes your action so that the next player can act while you monkey around with your chips.

This puts you streets ahead of 98% of the noobs So thanks!

There's nothing wrong with how you stack your chips, the way you're doing it is fine and if it's your preference, continue to do it. The only stacks which are problematic are ones which do not allow for a reasonable visual count. The reason someone is complaining is because this is twoplustwo, the world's nittiest site. All people do here is complain about rules violations, etiquette, ethics, things on the table, etc.

This really is just a completely silly and ridiculous post. If you've dealt for 20 years, thats tens of thousands of different people. I'm sure there have been a good number over the years who have stacked their chips in unique ways, I doubt that they're all total mouth breathing donks who can't play a lick just because they don't do things the way you do.

No question that stacks of 10 screams "noob." Its also annoying because it wastes time when you go broke, as it takes twice as long for you to ship it. and my guess is this happens often, because I too have yet to see a winner who uses stacks of 10.

When did how someone stacks their chips become the biggest tell about that players ability to play cards? And why are people annoyed when they think they have found these poor players?

I've been stacking my chips in groups of 10 since i starting playing (10 or so years). I have def caught people giving me weird looks but never really thought anything of it. lol if they think i suck at poker im certainly ok with that lol.

On a side note...yes i do fumble my chips, can't do that chip shuffle thing or whatever. When i make an action i just say what the hell i want to do and deal with the chips as soon as i get to it but my action is complete. I always thought the people that stealthly cut out 6 chips or whatever and puts it out is slowing the game down because then everyone is sitting there staring at the chips trying to figure out what the hell the player bet instead of just stating his bet. Inevitably someone will ask the player/dealer what the bet is. Especially 10 handed.

And yeah +1 to the LAGpile. Once i get settled i have my stacks of 10 and then an additional LAGpile on the side for blinds/antes and stuff. lol, i just looked at OP's stack...yeah pretty much that!

Though I admit I did eventually get around to stacking up the LAGpile. OCD gets the better of me eventually.

I agree with psand and steam. I don't think less of them as people (they're usually quite friendly), but I know action will likely slow down around this person, due to discomfort handling the playing pieces in general. With time, you'll improve. You can't help but do so. I suppose every now and again I see a player who's comfortable with chips stack them by 10, but it's hard to fake the overall unfamiliarity that tends to accompany the person with the 10 stack.

For example, this is the person who, when heads-up at the river, facing an opponent's all-in, will very politely ask the value, then painstakingly count out that exact amount, before saying the magic words of "I call." Even if it's a $67 bet in a $700 pot and the player has top set on a dry board, we get to watch him count out by stacks of 2, then recount, then pick up, then awkwardly put into the pot.

It's cute. I remember my first casino visits, too.

It's like, sure, you can continue to wear a diaper even after being potty trained, but you probably aren't going to make that choice. Once you feel comfortable handling chips, 10 will eventually feel like a hinderence more than a help.

My way of looking like a recreational was that my hands do not work as well as they once did, so I am can be unsteady and can not cut chips right. Now I think that going back to stacks of 10 is the better move

I play live maybe 6 times a year. I use to always stack in 10's. I was always worried of knocking down my stack or thought i would have a hard time seeing my cards lol. started stacking them in 20's 6 months ago and never going back to 10's

OP, you playing limit or NL?

If you're playing NL, taller stacks are better than shorter ones, because when you do shove, it's easier to mover fewer stacks into the middle of the table.

I play almost entirely limit HE, and I keep my chips in stacks of two big bets (i.e. 12 chips in a 15-30 or 30-60 game, 16 chips in a 20-40 or 40-80 game). This is so that the stacks are in a convenient size for raising on the big streets. I keep the stacks in a larger structure, typically in a hexagonal column with 7 stacks to a level.

(In kill games, this gets too complicated, so I just keep chips in stacks of 20.)

I only play NL. This has the minor downside of meaning I can successfully wipe myself out with a couple bad plays.

(Like this weekend, when I routinely moved all in with my stacks of ten chips with pocket over pairs, and lost 3 out of 4 times)

Stacks of 10, good chance you're a fish.

lol i will continue to stack my chips in groups of ten just for everyone that agrees with you. Ohh yeah and a little LAGpile on the side.

I agree I am a fish, but those don't necessarily seem related.

Now I need to figure out whether it would benefit me to stack my chips in 10s.

Because it's something fish tend to do without realizing it.

Like thinking A8o UTG is a monster. A fishy player may realize he's losing but not yet recognize that particular leak.

Not all fish stack by 10 or raise A8o UTG, and not all who do those things are fish... But both things are indicators which should be weighted accordingly.

Steam simply made a pointed and comedic observation. You posted a picture of your stacks of 10 and wondered why people made fun of it. Someone stated the generalization that only newbies and fish use stacks of 10. Then you posted in another thread that you have come to realize you are the fish at the tables.

Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence. And sometimes it isn't. Just laugh with us and accept the minor humor of it all. We were all newbie fish once.

...some of us two or more times...