Tourney Was this a fair chop? (1 Viewer)

[MatB]

Fair question. I can't tell you for sure, because it was late and I was getting bleary, which is one of the reasons I chopped. They looked fairly even to me. The others chopped evenly - I had it wrong; the chop happened when there were SEVEN of us left. So I got $1500, the otherssix took $800 each. I would guess the other prizes were something like:
$2400
$1600
$900
$600
$300
$250
I know that doesn't quite add up, but it was something like that.

If you walked away with $1750 i think thats good.

If you'd said no to the initial chop, even though you have 1/3 the chips, it doesn't take long, as you know, for a couple guys to get knocked out and a couple guys double or triple up. So you may not have stayed chip leader when it got down to 3 or 4 guys.

You might have been able to negotiate a little more based on your ship stack, but definitely was the right time to negotiate.

Nice takedown by the way.! were you at Seabrook or Hampton?

 

[GenghisKhan]

I like your chop. Last tournament I was in I was exactly in your position but had even more of the chips and I did not regret it. It Paid 3 places we were 4 left. Bubble had just enough chips that if he doubled or tripled up he could be a problem for the 2nd and 3rd place guys who had identical stacks.

Same deal, we cut out an amount to play for and the majority of the winnings we split percentage-wise by % of your chips.

 

[upNdown]

If you walked away with $1750 i think thats good.

If you'd said no to the initial chop, even though you have 1/3 the chips, it doesn't take long, as you know, for a couple guys to get knocked out and a couple guys double or triple up. So you may not have stayed chip leader when it got down to 3 or 4 guys.

You might have been able to negotiate a little more based on your ship stack, but definitely was the right time to negotiate.

Nice takedown by the way.! were you at Seabrook or Hampton?

Hampton. I've played at Seabrook the last couple of times I've been up there because I had to go on a sunday, and I like their Sunday tournaments better than Hamptdon's. But the best format available anywhere around, and I mean anywhere, is the one I played yesterday - Hamptdon's Saturday at 1:00.
30k chips and 30 minute blinds. And the blind increases are reasonable, even at the end of the night (unlike freakin Seabrook.) If you like a deepstack tournament, this is the one to play - you won't find one like it, even at Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun. Yesterday's was one of the bigger crowds I've seen for that tournamnet, with 107 runners, I think. But I feel like there's usually at least 80. It'll run for 11 hours, which gets tiring (especially if you have a few beers) and I've never seen one NOT end in a chop, but you could certainly hold out and play it out if you wanted to - believe me, I thought about it yesterday.

 

[upNdown]

Here's a hand I just remembered - the hand that got me started. I registered an hour late, and this hand happened toward the end of the 2nd hour, so in the 4th level.
There was a woman at my table who seemed to be thinking a lot about every decision. She also seemed like she was stealing a few pots, either with reraises or overbets. I didn't know what to make of her.
She was either small blind or big blind and was down to about half her starting stack after a few stupid showdowns. I was still right around the starting stack.
Tthere were 3 or 4 folds to me. I looked down at AA. I min-raised, expecting I'd get a reraise out of either her or another guy. A couple of calls to her and she shoved. I re-shoved, the others folded and she tabled a 4-7 off.
You have to love that.