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Message: [QUOTE="baudib1, post: 1803428, member: 47606"] As I mentioned earlier, dealers purposely do not keep the chips neat in the pile. Have you ever seen poker on TV or live, and most people keep their chips in neat stacks, usually in stacks of 20, and then they win a big pot? It takes forever to stack them all up again, because even if you push your chips forward in a nice, neat manner (towers of 20-chip stacks), they all get mashed up and thrown together. I have no idea why this is actually done, and have tried researching the origin of this, but it must be something dealers are told to do. It's not supposed to be made easy for you to count the pot if you weren't paying attention. I have actually read that some places won't even let dealers spread the pot out for you, which I thought was pretty much allowed everywhere. [/QUOTE]