Farcical Chop Attempt on Stars
I recently watched some of the replay of the Sunday Million final table from the end of Jan. The one where OX45AL won. There was one of the most farcical chop attempts ever witnessed.
OX45AL had a significant chip lead with 93 million chips. His 3 opponents (eMarkM, OBVAMENTS and celofyz33) had 37 million, 32 million, and 30 million respectively. Obviously its a good chip lead but it’s still just 1 double-up of any opponent to put one of them at approx 60 million to 60 million.
The chip count chop finally got posted after a long delay, with OX45AL penciled in for $455K, with 30K left on the table. This is obviously way way over any reasonable expectation of what the seat is currently worth. However OX45AL not content with that said he needed 500K!!!. Now at this point you should note that the actual first prize was only $550K. So he was asking for a lock on 91% of the first prize money with 4 players left! with another 30K left to play for!!
Needless to say it got rejected and the players said to just continue the action. However at this point the action didnt resume and assadourian (a Pokerstars Team Pro, and apparently the final table “host”) set about a 1 man campaign from the rail to actually try to persuade OX45AL that 500K was too much and preceded to also tell him what was reasonable. What the hell was he thinking???? He had absolutely no place there whatsoever. OX45AL had to tell him to basically stfu. It really was totally ridiculous.
Tags: assadourian, chop, OX45AL, pokerstars sunday million