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Originally Posted by dogarse
I know chopping should be a case of always chop or never chop with a particular opponent but is there anything unethical about declining to chop with the guy on your left and then offering a chop with the guy on your right?
Yes.
Its like any other angle. Within the rules but unethical.
I used to play a lot of 20/40 LHE and I would chop when I first started. Occasionally somebody on one side of me would tell me that he didn't chop.
At some point I decided to not play with a disadvantage when the guy to my left didn't chop. So I would tell the guy on my right I wasn't going to chop anymore. But if the guy on my right wasn't chopping, I continued to chop with the guy on my left.
I decided to ask (like you are asking now) if this was OK and a couple of regulars in the game told me that this wasn't right. That I was taking advantage of the game. And they would look at me like an angleshooter if I continued to do it. So I stopped doing it. I decided that if somebody on either side of me wasn't chopping then I wasn't chopping either. But it would have been OK if I continued to chop with whoever was on the other side of me.
Some time later I decided to never chop because there were some guys in the game who didn't chop and I was not experienced enough HU to compete well against them. In the end I was happy I did it this way because I did improve my HU play. The bonus was that the vast majority of players were inexperienced in HU play.
I have no opinion on moving seats if the person on your left isn't chopping, and staying in the same seat if the guy on your right isn't chopping. Or leaving the game only when the guy on your left isn't chopping. In general when players don't chop it is because they are good players and they believe they have an edge, larger than the rake, HU. My experience is that these players are usually pros.
edit: I should say that I don't play LHE anymore. I mostly play tournaments. But when I play NL cash games I just chop when the other players want to chop. It is extremely rare when players don't chop. However, you have given me food for thought. It probably makes sense for me in NL cash games to just not chop at all. I have tons of experience playing HU in tournies. The downside is of course that I will be disliked. Not that I am not disliked now anyway...
Last edited by Mr Rick; 12-27-2019 at 08:17 PM.