Chopping, do you? Would you?

[Penguinfan]

Just got heads up in another with almost identical chip counts so we split it 50/50.

I have used up all but 100 of those FPP's I won, so it went like this

100 FPP buy won 10,000 FPP's

With those FPP's I ended up with $90 in cash and T$332.

Couple rough beats along the way or it could have been better, also a couple hands I got carried away with or it could have been better. All in all I'll take that.

[humpty99]

When I first started playing on Stars, I thought that FPP were just a gimmick. Since then, I have turned 60 FPP into 500 cash, and about 3000 FPP on top of that. Its a nice little system they have.

[helmuths henchman]

how do u change FPP for cash??

[Talking Poker]

You buy in to a tournament with them and finish in the money.

[eddo31]

you can also effectively do it by exchanging points for merchandise that you would otherwise have an interest in, like the books or chip sets that they offer.

not exactly getting cash, but you do definitely get something of value.

[iwinurmoney]

i definitly wouldnt mind chopping if i was lower on chips than anyone else and they wanted to chop and it would bring my money count up.

[chrisash]

I Think Chopping Is A Good Idea

If You Make It To The Money And Yall Chop Then All Come Out Ahead

I Would Do It

[BDMK]

i used to be one of the 'no-chop' crowd, but have since modified my stance...

as part of my poker education process, i've been regularly observing the $100/$150/$300 buyin tourneys on stars (as well as the big weekly/monthly one), and i've seen the regular number of chops there.

most of the time, if the final, say, 3-4, are not outside of the 10-20% stack diff ratio among themselves, more or less, they will chop based on stack size and leave X to the winner. mostly, if the remaining prize pool is in 5 digits, they will leave 1K to the winner, and if it is in 6 digits (like the weekly/monthly big one), they will leave 10K.

this formula makes the best sense to me, chop-wise. simple and easy for everyone to understand, not to mention fair.

[lightfungus]

If you dont stop capitalizing everything Im gonna shoot your through the internet.