For the third time in just over a week I had found myself at a final table with a good stack of chips facing opponents that were crying for a deal. They wanted, what’s known in poker parlance, as a chop. Each time I was the only holdout to reject the deal and twice I was the next unlucky bloke out. That’s what happened at the Peppermill in their last poker series and it happened again at the Commerce in LA for the Los Angeles Poker Open. I only faired slightly better in the Venetian Deep Stack event, moving up one spot before imploding. So the question of whether or when to chop is a question I’ve been asking myself for a lot recently. Read more »
Join the forum discussion on this post
