I have seen two chops take place on Full Tilt Poker. What is a chop you ask? Its when you're down to the final few people in a poker tournament and for some other reason or another, everyone agrees that there is no more sense in playing anymore (i.e. its late and everyone is tired, everyone is evenly matched) When everyone agrees, a deal is then made amongst the players. Usually its by splitting the prize money into percentages in accordance to who has the most poker chips, least chips etc... Say, its heads up and person A has 200,000 chips and person B has 100,000. Person A would then receive 66% of the total of 1^st and 2^nd place and Person B would receive 33% of the total of 1^st and 2^nd place.

One chop I witnessed was in The Sunday Brawl. It was heads up in the final table and it was a back and forth battle. After a solid 10 minutes of tight, solid poker being played, the stacks were even with no one player having a clear advantage. The only way someone was going to win at that point was if they went all-in preflop because they were just too evenly matched. But, how much sense would that make to decide who the winner is through a coin flip? It just so happened though that someone from the FullTiltPoker.com Support team was watching the heads up match and asked both players if they wanted to chop. Both players deliberated and after 5 minutes or so, agreed upon a 50/50 chop. The chop was arranged by the Full Tilt Support person.

Second tournament I witnessed was a Railbirds $5000 freeoll tournament. It was down to the final four players and only 3 places get paid (1^st-$2500, 2^nd-1500, 3^rd-1000) Again, it was at a standstill amongst the four players. However, this time there was no Full Tilt Support person. The players agreed upon themselves that they would split up the prize money to 4 places (1st-$2000, 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th-$1000 each). They played out the rest of the tournament afterwards and after the tournament ended, 1^st place and 2^nd place transferred $500 each to the person who placed fourth and everyone was happy.