Tourney Chop Karma and Takedown Brag (1 Viewer)

[Trihonda]

I just don't understand the chop mentality.

Ya ya, we get it, lol...

I can take criticism, but trolling threads adds nothing positive to this community. In fact, I think it's quite detrimental.

If you don't like something, don't hate, just move on. I'm not hating on your views about tournaments. I dont care. Going into a whimsical thread with ZERO intention for positive participation is the definition of trolling.

We get it, you don't like chops, you may not like me, and we may not agree on some things, but not once have I ever gone into a thread you've started and posted negative comments...

Major

Let's move on..

 

[Tommy]

Chops are for cowards. Fuck chops.


Why offer a chop at all? You knew how long the tourney would take. You knew you had to work in the morning.

It's not aimed just at you - I have never understood why people chop. I know mathematically if I was in his situation, it would've been "correct" for me to take the chop, but why even consider accepting or offering a chop when your goal at the outset of the tournament was to win? And if your goal was to make money and not necessarily win, then why not just play cash?

I also hate the idea of people rooting for someone when they don't take a chop. I've had about 40 people at Foxwoods give me shit for not accepting a 6 way chop when I had 75% of the chips in play. They changed their offer to an ICM chop and I still didn't understand it. I drove down there, sat there for 6 hours, grinded my fucking ass off, and now when I'm so close to winning I'm just going to go "Meh, OK, give me some money and let's call it a day".

(I thought you were being indignant when you wrote this:

"....jab at the other guy for refusing a super fair chop and countering with what appeared to most as a quasi-insulting counter offer"

If he had 60K at 20/40K blinds and you had 1.7M, then yeah, your offer was more than fair. That might be the only situation where I'd consider thinking about the possibility of accepting a chop, but even then it's a long shot.

Threadsaver - concatenates chops, tourney, wanting to win, best song ever, and hilarious comments inside the video.

Best thing about this post is getting to see Elisabeth Shue in that video.

 

[courage]

Best thing about this thread so far is that it's reminded me of one of my all time favorite posts on any forum:

View: New Way to Insult People

I still howl laughing irl every single time I read that thread.

Still gold!

 

[12thMan]

I still say trup queens when it happens, very few people get it.

 

[Poker Zombie]

I'm a firm believer that the only reason to chop is because the tournament is broken. In this case it ran too far past Trihonda's bedtime, but typically it's because the remaining players all agree that the payout structure would be better if it wasn't so top-heavy.

If your tournament director really cared about players enjoying the tournament, you'd never see a chop.

Long story short:

• Trihonda beat a broken tournament.
• Nobody touched his card protector.
• Trihonda's opponent stink-palmed Tri. He's not getting that smell out for at least 2 days.
• Bergs has a man-crush on Ralph Macchio.
• Posating a Brag thread opens the door to a lot of smack-down