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08-28-2007, 10:59 PM
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| | | Chop blinds?
Would you chop blinds or not? Advantages to chopping vs not chopping? |
08-28-2007, 11:09 PM
|  | In the Money | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 27
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| | | Re: Chop blinds?
In a casino, I offer every time, before even looking at my cards. More times than not, I don't worry about what will most likely be a small pot with only the blinds, and have to have the house take their cut. Online, obviously it can't be done |
08-28-2007, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by dad604  Would you chop blinds or not? Advantages to chopping vs not chopping? | I chop both ways if the blinds are willing -- almost never happens at 2/4 limit though. |
08-28-2007, 11:26 PM
|  | World Series Champ | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: The People's Republic of California Age: 94
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Short handed, I don't chop. 7 handed or more, I chop. If I chop once, I chop always. Aces or rags, if you chop you chop. IMO- You can't chop once, and then later look at your cards and see a big hand and decide that you don't want to chop. It's bad form and poor etiquette. If you chop, you chop always.
The reason for chopping and the advantage to chopping is if you either both limp, what's left in the pot once you see the flop and the hand gets raked? A dollar?
There's easier money to make. Pick a different spot.
The reason I don't chop short handed is you see many more hands, you are paying blinds quicker, and if everyone sits around the table chopping, you'll never see a flop. I tell someone this up front if they ask me if I chop. "Short handed, yes, full table, no" |
08-28-2007, 11:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Quads l someone this up front if they ask me if I chop. "Short handed, yes, full table, no" | Quads --- other way around???? |
08-29-2007, 12:55 AM
|  | World Series Final Table | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orange County, CA
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| | | Re: Chop blinds?
I almost lost my full buy in once for not chopping. Thankfully the Older man offered and showed me he had a monster hand. If folded around to the blinds I'd almost always chop, Just better for the casino if you try and play heads up.
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08-29-2007, 06:07 AM
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I always chop -- no flop, no drop. |
08-29-2007, 06:27 AM
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Quads got it right I chop everytime in a full game but reconsider with 6 or less. |
08-29-2007, 08:57 AM
|  | On the Bubble | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Michigan
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| | | Re: Chop blinds?
Excuse my ignorance. When you chop blinds, do you each get half, or do you just take your own blind back? |
08-29-2007, 09:41 AM
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| | | Re: Chop blinds?
I don't like to but do it if asked, unless the SB is an a-hole. |
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