Andy Beal’s tracking with poker chips

On the Andy scene, he was playing Ted F. Andy takes the 4s and has the 1-2-3 seats locked up with racks of blue chips – $1. They form a barricade across the end of the table and I couldn’t stifle my curiosity so I asked Carmen about it when we had a few minutes together. She said she thought it was some way of keeping track of hands raised or hands that went to the flop or some sort of record keeping but she wasn’t really sure. The word was that by the end of this session, he was down about 2.5…Ugh!