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Chop at the table consolidation? That's ing weak. You must have been playing with a bunch of locals that frequent that place, otherwise they wouldn't have had the house backing.
Went to the Coushata casino resort in Kinder, La this weekend with three buddies. I had never been there before and did not know what to expect. It was a nice casino, not as good as Vegas, but it was nice.
Anyway, got there at 5: 30, just in time to register for the Friday night poker tourney which started at 7pm. There were 10 tables with 10 players at each, and the first 1 1/2 hr is pot limit with unlimited rebuys. I bought in for $30, which gave me 700 in chips. By the break, I had a little more than doubled my stack, playing very conservatively. At the break, everyone can buy 4500 more chips for $60, which I did, so I had about 6000 in chips. My goal was to try to make Final Table, which means you are in the money.
Well, about 11pm, I am at table 1 with five people and table 2 has six people, so we need to eliminate one more person. I have 47k in chips which is about 5th best. The blinds are 1200-2400, so the action is getting hot. I am 2 off the button and the player to my right goes all in for 42k, I look down at my cards and see pocket rockets (only time that night), I make it look like I am thinking real hard about calling, then push all in as well, sure enough, the chip leader to my left calls, and the small blind and big blind fold. The player to my left shows AK u , I show my AA and the chip leader turns over QQ. My aces hold up, I win the pot, my stack goes over 140k and I have 35k lead on 2nd place and 30k lead on 3rd.
So, the tourney manager tells everyone what the payouts are going to be. 1st place will get $3800, 2nd $2000 3rd $1200, and on down to $200 for the last 2 spots.
So what happens? Everyone wants to chop the prize money, rather than play out. They offer $1200 to me and the 2 players below me and $600 to everyone else. I turn it down because I want to win the damn thing and I have a huge lead, but finally give in after much whining by everyone. I did not want to piss off 9 players and try to beat them if they all had it in for me.
Man that sucked, the house should not even allow chops at that point, they should wait til the final 3 players. The 3 of us at the top could easily eliminated the short stacks because the blinds were so high at that point and they would have had to go in with almost any hands. I wish i would have talked to the 2 of them and gotten that across to them, they might have agreed with me and we could have played on.
Oh well, $1,110.00 profit is not bad for my first casino tourney.
I played a $2 -$5 no limit game Sat night and won another $500, so my weekend was pretty sweet.
The golf coure, Koisati Pines was great. I recommend going there. For $200, you get a nice room and 2 rounds of golf for 2 nights....very cool.
Chop at the table consolidation? That's ing weak. You must have been playing with a bunch of locals that frequent that place, otherwise they wouldn't have had the house backing.
yo jimbo get any hoes?
You should of refused any chop unless you got something like $2000
I know, I got screwed...but live and learn.
No, I had a requirement that the hoes have most of their teeth, but alas, none of them fit the bill.
So essentially they gave you 3rd place money which you were almost guaranteed to get anyways. That's not right and would have refused unless as GiNNNoili said you give me $2000-$2500 to walk. Otherwise, I would take my chances.
taking the same as everyone else. No way in I'd ever take that deal. I would never chop, even at the final 3 with a chip lead though. Bad EV.
As for the house backing the chop, that makes sense. The longer you play doesn't make them anymore money. They've already made the money from the rake up front. They just want the tourney over with so everyone goes back to gambling at raked tables.
props for the winning.. but dude.. they whined because it was 600 vs. 200.. I wouldve whined also.. then they gave the top 3 1200? with you as the leader? I saw a dude last night win 12K in ruidoso and he was short stacked with 2 chips left and won 12 straight hands to win. the leader had refused the split...
sheeeut...I made more than that hustling hunters at poker this year and didn't even have to go to louisiana.
They must really suck, for you to beat them..
It was not only the short stacks, it was the dude in 2nd place that brought up the whole idea... He first said that he and I should take 1500 each, but the girl who had only a few thousand chips less than he, said that was not fair to her, so he said ok, then let's do a 3 way split.
And yes the wanted those last 2 tables, because they had a big waiting list for tables for cash games.
Man, if people want that to be fair, its easy. You take the prize pool and with 50% of it you give everyone an equal cut just for being in their seat. The last 50% is diveded up by chip counts.
But chops. I hate them so much.
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