Chopping the winnings in a live tournament?

jugglegeek · May 2011

I'm fairly new to poker and very new to live poker. Last night I went deep in only my third live tournament at my local casino. A £15 freeze out with 32 runners. I had taken out JJ with A9 to double up and make the final table so I had an above average stack. By playing tight and winning a couple of all-ins I found myself three-handed but with just over half the chips of the chip leader who was fairly even matched with the guy in second. Pay out was £70 for third, total prize was £325 for the three of us (can't remember was the top two prizes were)

Then a chop was sugested by the chip leader (who had come back from the dead on the final table). It was pointed out that I had quite a few chips less than the other two so we agreed £140, £140 and £115 for me. I accepted this because I expected that in the next half dozen hands all my chips were going to end up in the middle and I would be flipping for 2nd place.

Just wanted to know how common this type of thing is and would anyone else have insisted on playing on? I've seen two players chop in a home game when we wanted to get a second game in and both players were pretty even on chips. But never three-way in a casino. The casino had no problem with it at all, presumably because it meant they could rest the dealer.

DannyMcs · May 2011

Just wanted to know how common this type of thing is and would anyone else have insisted on playing on?

It's very common live, in my experience. I'd say 9 out of 10 live FTs I've made some business has been done. You are always within your rights to play on if you prefer though.

DAVEYZZ · May 2011

it is common place to chop now and i think you got a good deal.....

i personally dont like chopping,even if i am the short stack because i like to go for the win.

dont feel pressured into taking a chop if you would rather not,you could of carried on and got 1st place and quite a bit more or you may of gone out next hand for the £70.

if you were happy with the chop thats great.

wd on your result in only your 3rd live tourny!

gl dave

Mohican · May 2011

Chopped 6 way before as the bubble had been going for 90 minutes and we'd got to the stage where all of us were in shove or fold mode.

SHAUNY · May 2011

In Response to Re: Chopping the winnings in a live tournament?:

Chopped 6 way before as the bubble had been going for 90 minutes and we'd got to the stage where all of us were in shove or fold mode.
Posted by Mohican

played the £150 freezeout at luton last sunday managed to final table and the pot was big very close to 7k,5 of us left i was short stacked with 100k then the chip leader was on 320k and others inbetween,they asked for a deal and it was up to me if we did as i was getting £800 and other 4 getting £1100.next to go would have been £530 so i decided on taking the chop,but i must admit i do like to play to a finish but as we sat down at 3pm sunday afternoon it was 2.30 monday morning when the deal was done i was happy and tired!i play at luton every week and you see a chop every week,but if you dont want to just say no gd luck shauny

celtbhoy24 · May 2011

In my only live event I made the final table with a very small stack. With 9 left a split was suggested which would have let everyone take home £150. The chip leader refused saying the money was not important and he never made deals. Fast forward one hour and having doubled up 5 times I was heads up with the afore mentioned chip leader. I won our first all in to pretty much even our stacks and hey presto he proposed a split, £375 each, I snapped him up as it was not a bad amount for a £10 buy in.
Brill experience overall, hopefully wont be the last final table action I see.
Good luck in future events.

GaryQQQ · May 2011

Chopped 3 ways at my live debut, a £25 + 1 rebuy at G Casino Blackpool. It was 2-30am, we'd been playing for 6 hours and we were all tired. After I shoved my K8o and doubled off the chip leader we did a count and all had about 10BB each, the remaining prizes were £400-£300-£200, we agreed to take £300 each. For fun we did a blind 3-way all-in hand after doing the deal, I got 2nd.

SolarCarro · May 2011

Yeah it's very common

Me, Eyeman and 1 other chopped the pre-SPT tournament at Aspers for 900/675/675

It was 4.30am !!

Dave

FlashFlush · May 2011

In Response to Re: Chopping the winnings in a live tournament?:

Yeah it's very common Me, Eyeman and 1 other chopped the pre-SPT tournament at Aspers for 900/675/675 It was 4.30am !! Dave
Posted by SolarCarro

And that is generally the reason. Live tournaments will go on for a lot longer than online because of the amount of hands seen per hour.

I won the monthly tournament last night at the local poker club (home of the Swindon Massive) and we chopped it heads up. There was a suggestion of chopping 3 way but I had about 550k, 2nd had 330 and 3rd only 100k, so I said lets leave it, and if the shortie doubles then we will talk. Soon after the shortie was knocked out by the other player. I had 530k and the other guy had about 450k (rough stacks) so we chopped it £690+ title and £640 for the other guy.

hurst05 · May 2011

mbn to get to the stage in a live tournament where you can have the option of a chop. siiiigh.

The_Don90 · May 2011

i alway remember a tournament i was in at the Merchant in Glasgow, 136 people started with 16 getting paid, prizepool was GTD 4K with a £10 buy in, however as it was in a league money had been collected throughout the season. 41 left and i had half of starting stack due to a bad beat. Break finnishes a player goes out.

One guy stands up and asks the tournament director over. He says, "Prizepool is £4K and theres 40 players left. How about about offering a split, £100 each" the tournament director said no it was a crazy idea at this stage, however 3 of the tables actually agreed on it, the rest never got to find out about it as they where further away.

Chopping the winnings in a live tournament?

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