mike l. asked me

[emerson]

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60-120, you're in BB, raised and folded to you, raiser offers to give you x chips back, if you don't look. Whats break-even, if raiser is raising with just his normal raising hands, and offering the deal with all his raising hands? (x doesn't have to be whole chips.)

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Yeah, somebody did something like this at Commerce when I was in the sb and had folded. Big blind agreed they would split. I reached and took my SB back. They complained and called the floor who sided with me. No chopping.

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This is really nitty. You made your preflop decision, their subsequent chop doesn't affect you, it's just sour grapes to do this.

-DeathDonkey

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Not at all. Chopping helps facilitate collusion. The blind thief is supposed to get by two players, not one. The sb is much less apt to defend and this is cheating on the part of the other two players. The blind thief can take a stab with a substantially weaker hand if he knows the BB will chop with him.

Additionally, I had to call the floor on another occasion involving the same player. At showdown he calls out a hand he doesn't have to try to get the opponent to muck.