Question about chopping

[Stellastarr]

Its either you chop or dont. Usually if everyone at the table is doing it. I go along with it. Keeps the game friendly.

[steamboatin]

when i fist started playing poker, I never chopped. I had read somewhere in a poker book, I don't think it was a 2+2, that if you were a good player, you should go ahead and play because you had an advantage.

I believe that in low limit play chopping is +EV from a table image point of veiw. It helps build your "NIce Guy" image and I am absolutely convinced that a "Nice Guy" image is +EV.

The fishy players don't mind losing to a "Nice Guy" as much as losing to an ass, they are less likely to call your bluffs with junk because a "Nice Guy" probably wouldn't try to steal a pot and they will sometimes just check the river with the winner because you are a "Nice Guy".

[KenProspero]

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I believe that in low limit play chopping is +EV from a table image point of veiw. It helps build your "NIce Guy" image and I am absolutely convinced that a "Nice Guy" image is +EV.

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[BigBaitsim (milo)]

You either always chop or never chop. To do otherwise is a gross breach of etiquette.

The exception is shorthanded play. With 6 or fewer at the table I don't chop, but once we go shorthanded I always tell the other players that I don't chop shorthanded.

[d10]

It's also +EV in the monetary sense. A typical small stakes B&M game is going to charge 10% rake up to a capped amount. With only 2 players putting money in, the rake is rarely capped, so you're usually looking at losing 10% of the pot when you win it. You'd have to be sitting next to a horrible player to have enough of an edge over him to make up for that.