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# Players: +/- 40
Buy-in/Rebuys/Addon: $30 Buy-in plus $30 Addon (Fortunately, I didn't have to rebuy) $60

We got down to the final four and chopped. Blinds were getting extremely high and we were all about even in chips. The chop was $384, which was little over second place money.

I'll take it!

congrats to you, that is a pretty loose tourney with a bunch of bad players and you dont get alot of chips, so if you dont get a good amount early, its hard to win. glad to hear you did well.

Thanks man!

I totally agree with you. You have to chip-up early to stand a chance in that thing. That's what stinks about coming in as an alternate like you had to. You are automatically in shove-mode just to have a fighting chance.

Just out of curiosity, do you normally go for the chop or the win?

it depends on who im playing against and how im running. if we're down to me and a few donkeys that are hitting cards then ill chop. but if ive got three or four good players and i running decent, ill try to out play them and go for the win. or if im hurting for money then ill go for the chop. im a gambler though so most of the time ill go for the win.

i agree mostly i would see who im playing with

You've brought up an interesting point that I had not considered. I've always thought that having good players left at the end was a bad thing and gave me more of a reason to chop. It actually gives you more of a reason to play it out (if you're a good player) because of being able to outplay them. Whereas, having poor players that call too much is more of a reason to chop, since it truly comes down to who gets the luckiest. Very interesting.

Personally, I'm not a big gambler. When I play in these live donkaments it's usually outside of my bankroll anyway, so I'm usually happy with a chop that adds $300 to the roll.