Tourney Do you "chop" live poker tournaments? (2 Viewers)

[krafticus]

Yep, it was down to 3, top 2 got paid (at O'Sheas, when it was still cool).

I think he meant 3 runners in the tournament total.

 

[Ronoh]

I agree with what I think you are saying Ronoh; that's why I didn't agree. My chop resulted in her getting more, me taking less, but the person driving it taking less. He was (I believed) trying to take advantage of her and thought I'd just go along.

Additionally a (legitimate) chip chop will never give first place more than first place money. If he has an enormous stack then using my example above he would get $800, the other two would have a base of $200 and a chop would be for distribution of the remaining $200 between the 2nd and 3rd place players.

 

[Poker Zombie]

I think he meant 3 runners in the tournament total.

Lol...

No, there were 22 if I recall. It was the first of 2 tournaments the The Mrs and I "swept" a Vegas tournament. The other one there was no chop offered. It went down to Mrs Zombie and I heads-up, and the dealer asked if we wanted to chop. The answer was a simultaneous "NO".

We are just too competitive.

...and vs drunken tourists, I can actually play.

 

[TexRex]

So Zombie, do tell! Which of you had to sleep on the couch that night?

 

[Poker Zombie]

I binked it. Spent the winnings on a massive tip for the dealer (he was a riot) and then drinks. She knows she'll get it back in the home games.

 

[XBobdog]

I would say that more then half of the tournaments in Vegas that I've cashed in have chopped in some way.

Most of the chops are straight splits. Occasionally chip stacks will dictate a 40/30/30 or similar slight tweak. But it always occurs when everyones stack size vs blind size makes everyone feel vulnerable to random chance.

Usually the table will have been in the shove or nothing phase for while. someone gets busted, bumping all the payout. It gets brought up and every says sure. A tournament like the 1 o'clock at the Aria has been playing for 6+ hours at this point. If it had 100ish entries, It's been a shove fest since there were 2 tables. When it gets down to 4 people, most are eager to just be done with it.

It doesn't get brought up when someone has a dominate lead. At least I haven't seen that. In that case, I imagine it would get rejected.

Although I have no first hand knowledge. I've heard that chops in the WSOP were common before TV coverage. When the organizers realized it would be bad TV to have a chop, it was discouraged.