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Most places do the single motion these days. I think it is quite possible that this game was big enough to still be played the "old way."

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I started NL in a place that held more to the traditional approach, and folks regularly would grab a stack of chips with one hand and start cutting 'em out while simultaneously reaching back with the other for another stack so that they always had a hand in the betting area moving chips around. Long as you were moving around out there, you weren't done. Worked fine. It let us bet multiple stacks without saying a word and without arranging the stacks ahead of time and trying to scoot 'em across. First time I tried that in Vegas the dealer about slapped my hand. I adapted quickly.