Re: OT: DevinLake strikes at the Venetian deep stack series
 

this is costanza_g, i was playing at a cash table in the same room as devins for about the last 5 hours of the tourney. It seemed like one or two old dudes were the only ones being really vocal about wanting a chop once they hit the money. I guess it sort of grew into a mob mentality, and the few people who didnt want to chop were basically pressured into it from my point of view.

The floor manager really had his hands full trying to keep everyone in there seat and maintain order. lol, it was like two dugouts clearing in a baseball game [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. Its still an awesome deal for devin since he was getting short and taking 8th place with 32 left is crucial.

Holllllllaaaaa

Re: OT: DevinLake strikes at the Venetian deep stack series
 

If I was devin I would have tried to get myself an awesome deal. Like I'lll chop only if everyone gives me $200 out of what they get paid.

Re: OT: DevinLake strikes at the Venetian deep stack series
 

i think it was a good deal for everyone involved....the chip leader had like 397k at 6k/12k/2k ante and Devin had like 160k


edit: I think somewhere around 500k, perhaps slightly less, and I would definitely reject a chop.

Re: OT: DevinLake strikes at the Venetian deep stack series
 

I suck at live poker, I was happy with the the chop.

The big stack probably had an M of about 6-8. It was a crap shoot. The chop gave everyone like 8 or 9th place money. Also, I get to play the $1.5k event today and wouldn't have if it didn't get chopped.

I'll post some more details later, but have to go play hopefully for another 14 hrs today.

Re: OT: DevinLake strikes at the Venetian deep stack series
 

Nice Job Devin.

I can only imagine how fun it must have been for the staff to explain and get everyone to agree to a 32 way chop.

Re: OT: DevinLake strikes at the Venetian deep stack series
 

It actually seemed like the chop was kind of up in the air to start and there were several very vocal opponents to it. The guys wanting the chop wanted to do it evenly at first and the big stack balked at that so they offered 11k to the top 5, and upon hearing that this one old dude said he wouldn't chop unless he was in the top 5. Right then the director ordered chip counts from everyone, and upon seeing how short everyone was, opposition to the chop disappeared.

Re: OT: DevinLake strikes at the Venetian deep stack series
 

Sweet.

Re: OT: DevinLake strikes at the Venetian deep stack series
 

Congrats. I definitely would have turned down the chop to spite everyone.

Re: OT: DevinLake strikes at the Venetian deep stack series
 

Wow.

Re: OT: DevinLake strikes at the Venetian deep stack series
 

Wow.