High Card
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 13
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Quote:
Originally Posted by simplekid
Poker, just like all other sports in the world, has a thing called
etiquette, a.k.a. sportsmanship. [...] The blinds in all games are considered to be "random" hands,
and for this reason they are hardly ever thought of as being powerful.
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Random is the operative word here.
Quote:
Originally Posted by paratrooper99
Chopping is customary and makes sense no matter what cards you
have.
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I have played about 200 hours of 2-5NL HE in Vegas and Atlantic City.
I'm in the "always chop" camp. My reasoning is: players play a hand (raise, limp, call) for a reason:
the hand is a contender in some way.
How often do two random hands happen to both be "contenders" and therefore might bring
about good action? The most frequent result is probably that one player would win 1BB.
(Note that the OP's caveat about "every time or never" applies. It makes no sense to choose to chop
or not each time, especially after looking at one's cards.)
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