Offering the Chop

I was playing my weekly tournament last night I ran across something interesting. This Player A was up against Player B all in. They both has AK. Player A offered Player B the chop instead of seeing the flop. Player A stated "You can either split the pot or experience a bad beat." Have you ever faced any players that offers the chop before the flop in an all in?

he he, got shortstacked in a live game last night, push all-in with A10 diamonds, got called by A10 hearts. I clicked the flush on the turn

I never had the offer to chop the pot, but i would personally decline the offer. You are at the same odds for a bad beat and most likely you will split the pot anyways.

Never heard of a chop being offered during a hand, surley the hand has to be played out once it's started?

I would never do this, I know it would split like 90-95% of the time, but you both put all your money in, you should see it out in that situation. It could be the turning point of the tournament if someone in that situations actually did double up there. Four card flushes do happen.

It is alittle different when someone wants to just chop the blinds.

I've never done this in a hand, but last Saturday I played live and got down to 2 of us. The chips were my 200 to his 800. It payed 2 spots. Knowing this guy wasn't a big poker player I offered a split. He said no. Next hand I doubled up, so now it is 400 to 600. I told him he had one last chance at a split and he took it. Because he did we were able to have enough for another game. Got 3rd there. I'll take my money back all day.

In a hand: sure, I'll take a pot split -- if I think I am <50% to win the hand and can't outplay my opponent.

In a game/tournament/etc: usually not, I really enjoy Heads Up poker. If the prizes were huge (they seldom are for me!) and the disparity between 1st/2nd was really big, I might consider it.

I've seen this happen once in a home game. The guy that accepted the chopped pot would have won the pot outright.

t1riel said:

Player A stated "You can either split the pot or experience a bad beat."

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It sounds like Player A was the one who was afraid of being beat. No reasonable player would offer a chop if they were confident of winning the pot, so it should be obvious to Player B that he's better off sticking it out for the win.

I've never been involved in a chop but was in a situation where one guy asked the poker room manager if five people at the final table could get paid instead of four, if everyone agreed. The idea didn't fly and I wouldn't have been in favor of it anyway, but unfortunately I went out on the bubble that day and would have benefited from that potential deal.