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What’s everyone’s thoughts on chopping? I’ve got a tournament here of usually around 175 players that I cash in most of the time. The times I’ve made the final table it’s always chop. I would love the practice of playing it all the way in case I’m ever in that situation for some bigger tourneys. It’s hard to practice playing 5 or less if it’s always chopping. I don’t want to be that guy that goes against everyone as I know most of them don’t want to play it out. If we do chop I at least make it an ICM chop so it’s paid based on chip stack.
Really good question for discussion. What size fields are the tourneys you are playing in? The tourneys I consistently play in ranger from 40-90 players. Ammount of players i believe has to play a role to an extent. Don’t feel afraid to put your foot down about wanting to play it out. The problem is, in my experience, the end phase of these smaller tourneys have ridiculous blind levels. You could be 3 handed and the big stack only have 20-30bb. At that point it’s really just coin flips til someone wins. That def doesn’t give you the experience in playing shorthanded deep in a tourney. My general rule of thumb is to only chop 3 maybe 4 ways if its a bigger than normal tourney. I always at the begin of a final table let people know I’m open to talking about a chop when we get down to x number of players…usually 3. Most the time people are up for that. You aren’t totally closing out chop possibilities but are still setting an end game to play towards. Definitely curious to see what others have to say.
I just realized that you said the size of your tourney. I’d say that’s a big enough field to put a foot down and play it out. Good luck!
I agree with Martin about the blind structures and chips stack sizes. I play in some tourneys where you get to a final table and everyone is 1 hand from being in first or last and you spend a ton of time just moving the blinds around the table. I’ve been in spots where we are 6 handed and I am the big stack and have 25 BBs so it becomes sort of a jam/luck fest at that point. I do agree as well that sometimes you just have to put your foot down and say I want to play it out, I’ve done it. I also look at the players at the table, both skill level and people I know. I am not gonna play 5 handed with 3 guys I know and like when we can all chop and get close to 2nd place money but if there are 3-4 guys I don’t know or for that matter don’t like, shuffle up and deal and lets play!
No wrong answer here, just sort of evaluate things like players, chip stacks, blinds, payouts, etc…and make a decision and stand by it! Good luck!
In those situations how about take some secured money and play for something. If you do an ICM chop, would it be possible to take “x” off the top, ICM for the balance and play for the additional, Winner Takes All.
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