Neatly stacked chips

Hello,

I read a few posts about how to bet a few different denominations to help hide your bet spread without slowing down the game. However I haven't seen many posts about how to stack your chips in general. I noticed I tend to keep all my chips in nice little orthogonal stacks of 5 or 10 and you can tell how much I've got on the table from a mile away. I do it so that at the end of every shoe I can quickly glance and see how much money I have. I think I need to change this before my next visit.
What about keeping my chips in different stack heights and mixed with different colors? Does anybody do this? I figure if I make my chips in a real mess it'll look more like a gambler.

-psg

I make mine into forts, with the lower chips protecting the larger ones. The wall closest to the dealer is low-value and stacked higher than the interior high-value chips. When I played the $3 tables, I got many comments on my fortresses.

My first time back at the Spanish 21 table had me buying in for 30 red chips and 30 white chips. Since I like to bet even amounts in case of a Black Jack or surrender, I bet $6 instead of $5. So I made stacks of red, white, red, white, etc chips 5 bets high. With $12 bets, it'd be 2 reds, 2 whites, 2 reds, 2 whites etc. 5 bets high.
But seeing how my next visit may have me running raise on a win progressions, I may just keep them in separate red and white chip stacks so I can pull from them as needed, but I have to figure out a way to count my chip balance along with that.
I have some chips from a Texas Hold'em game I got at WalMart years ago, so I can use them to practice when I get around to it. I've always been playing digitally and fumbling with chips is too new to me.
At the craps table, a dealer saw me taking $3, $4, $5 odds, so he fed me like $15 white chips on the first payouts, so I always had enough chips to take odds.
If I had an extra stack of chips at the Spanish 21 table just for my raise on a win progressions, I'd keep my usual stacks and add to the bet from this slush stack on the side.

Hey, yeah, keeping your chips in neat stacks of 5 or 10 is definitely giving away too much info. Mixing up the stack heights and colors is a solid idea—it makes it way harder for anyone to figure out exactly how much you have on the table. You don’t want to be too obvious about your bet spread, especially if you’re trying to keep things low-key. Just make it look more like a messy gambler and you’ll blend in better.

I've gotten told off by security before for stacking all my chips with the colored pips perfectly aligned-- the cameras couldn't read my stacks, and they were concerned about overpays.

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I've gotten told off by security before for stacking all my chips with the colored pips perfectly aligned-- the cameras couldn't read my stacks, and they were concerned about overpays.
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I've seen dealers get told off for arranging their chips like that in the float, but I've never heard of a player getting told off like that.