Chop/chop?

[Georgia Avenue]

Private J.'s new awesome story about the YID hits unpleasantly close to home for me in several areas…for one, I am a huge idiot fan of showing my “bluffs” that are actually the best hand. It’s a disease, like herpes.

But the biggest needle was the chopping comment. What do y’all think of a player who says they NEVER chop from the SB or BB? Is it a douchey thing to do? It is discourteous? Is it bad for the table atmosphere?

I know that it’s somewhat unprofitable, but that’s not that big a deal to me…I play mostly NL so those blind hands can get serious quick…but I don’t chop in limit either. (I just like to see flops, because: I am a fool.) I’m mainly interested in what y’all think about a player who is otherwise very friendly who says he won’t chop. I know I’m not out to make friends, but, I don’t want players I respect thinking I’m a YID (though I am, really) and I don’t want fishy fish getting disgruntled.

The one guaranteed positive aspect is that it has caused some ancient rocky nits to leave my table. So that’s good at least…