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Gadget United States. Nov 24 2009 20:05. Posts 295

I chopped for 3700 when it was heads up. I had 1.5m and he had 1m and he gave me chip chop plus $150. I would like some feedback on whether it was a good chop or not. He had 43k in total prizes with -12% roi on opr.

I dont know if its poker in general, full tilt, or just my mentality, but basically all of my good tournament results come 1 week or weekend out of a month and the rest of that month I dont get anywhere near an FT.

The sickest part of my tourny results is that I'm getting 1st place in over 75% of FT's that I make with 600+ entrants. I think part of this has to do with never having another good player at my FT's. I am always mind boggled when i get to an FT and the big stack open limps utg and folds to a 5bb shove. Im obviously happy to see a terrible player at my FT, but I cant imagine how good he was running to make it that far.

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milkman United States. Nov 24 2009 20:15. Posts 5719

i think the chop totally depends on how big ur BR is, how confident you are in HU, and your opponent.. seems like your opponent is OK, the 12% roi is crazy small, but 43K winnings is good.. he might b a huge fish who luckboxed something huge and donated almost all of it back.. but what i do is just take the difference from the 1st place chop # and the 2nd place chop # and figure it out and ask my self if i should be playing a x$ HU sng, alot of times when i was making FTs i had like a 2K roll and was gonna be playing a 700 - 1000 hu sng, and i had to just take the chop. But if you are very confident, and have a good roll, then id say go for it.

Its hard to make a easy buck legally, its impossible to make a easy buck morally.

Gadget United States. Nov 24 2009 20:25. Posts 295

He has 43k in total prizes and a -12% roi. That means overall he is down about 4k. Prizes is just the total amount he has won without subtracting his buy ins.

I think about it like that as well. I obviously felt I would be winning the heads up a good percentage of the time but the blinds were so high I thought the chop may have been the best bet. This is by far the highest blinds I have ever seen at an FT compared to stack sizes. It was hard for me to turn down 3700 when 2nd place was 2600 and first was 4200. I think that means I have to win heads up a little more than 2 out of every 3 times.

Robinson47 United Kingdom. Nov 24 2009 20:50. Posts 992

nice score, with 1.5mill to 1million chip lead id only chop if i thought he was significantly better than me. but sounds like you got a good deal if you got 3700 and he got 3100. chop sounds pretty good to me.