Re: Thoughts on chopping blinds
Interesting posts. Wihtout having given it much thought, I've spent my poker life as a "never-chop" ... although as a low stakes 2/4 or 3/6 player live, I'm not given many opportunities to stand by my convictions.
A couple points in favor of not chopping:
1) The skill difference can be big enough, that you should take any opportunity to get in a pot with them (as mentioned in earlier posts... particularly in NL).
2) It could give you a LAGish table image, which can help in other hands, in a relatively harmless format.
Last night at Canterbury I was at an unusually tight 3/6 table, and pot-chopping was running rampant. As I customarily do, I refused to chop (and naturally raised), when first given an opportunity. It caused a big stir at the table.
The upside was that guy to my left, on three occasions, folded his BB to my SB raise because "it wasn't worth his time" (his words). The downside was that the table thought I was a jerk... but I don't think there is an EV impact to being a jerk.
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