Donkeys Always Draw

So I’m sitting around the house Monday night, nearly falling asleep to some classic football game on NFL network, and I look up at the clock, and it’s 8:55.  WTF, let’s go play the MATH.

Numb Jr. was in bed, and Mrs. Numb wouldn’t be back for about an hour, so why not.

Granted, it was a miniscule field, but a win is a win.

Of the five games that comprise HORSE, LHE is my weakest, but even a donkey like myself wouldn’t fold to a five chip bet on the river with 1560 in the pot.

This is from the nightly $4K HORSE sometime last week.

Full Tilt Poker Game #6894608328: $4,000 Guarantee (51707750), Table 5 - 80/160 - Limit Hold’em - 23:08:40 ET - 2008/06/19
Seat 1: NumbBono (485)
Seat 2: goldnchild77 (4,418)
Seat 3: RAWilson (772)
Seat 4: DOLPHIN14 (1,283)
Seat 5: rontonsoup (1,009)
Seat 6: fwankie916 (3,525)
Seat 7: sey_when2 (2,225)
Seat 8: dezman (2,283)
DOLPHIN14 posts the small blind of 40
rontonsoup posts the big blind of 80
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to NumbBono [Qd Ad]
fwankie916 folds
sey_when2 calls 80
dezman calls 80
NumbBono raises to 160
goldnchild77 folds
RAWilson folds
DOLPHIN14 folds
rontonsoup folds
sey_when2 calls 80
dezman calls 80
*** FLOP *** [Jd 6c 7d]
sey_when2 bets 80
dezman raises to 160
NumbBono raises to 240
sey_when2 raises to 320
dezman calls 160
NumbBono calls 80
*** TURN *** [Jd 6c 7d] [6h]
sey_when2 checks
dezman checks
NumbBono checks (I’m hanging on to my last five chips for a river bluff)
*** RIVER *** [Jd 6c 7d 6h] [Qc]
sey_when2 has 15 seconds left to act
sey_when2 checks
dezman checks
NumbBono bets 5, and is all in (no bluffing now, I have TPTK and that’s always gold)
sey_when2 folds (Value Fold?)
dezman calls 5
*** SHOW DOWN ***
NumbBono shows [Qd Ad] two pair, Queens and Sixes
dezman mucks
NumbBono wins the pot (1,570) with two pair, Queens and Sixes (I knew I had it the whole time)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1,570 | Rake 0
Board: [Jd 6c 7d 6h Qc]
Seat 1: NumbBono showed [Qd Ad] and won (1,570) with two pair, Queens and Sixes
Seat 2: goldnchild77 didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 3: RAWilson (button) didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 4: DOLPHIN14 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: rontonsoup (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: fwankie916 didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 7: sey_when2 folded on the River
Seat 8: dezman mucked [As Jc] - two pair, Jacks and Sixes

With each of us having two Mookie wins under our belts, BuddyDank and I had a prop bet that whoever wins their next Mookie, owes a Box-O-Wine to the other.

Game Over

More to come…

So Tragedy asks if I want to play this stupid little sat with him, of course, I agree, not even knowing what the sat is for. But who cares… this is the reigning Mookie Champion asking me to play cards with him.

The result is this…

For our efforts, it was worth T$55 each.  I promptly un-registered from MSOP #46, and will be using the T$55 for much better things.

My family is sending up a few thoughts to the Big Man for Bayne and family.

Won last night’s $5.50 10:45pm HORSE tourney…AGAIN, for the second time in two weeks.  This is getting to the point where I’m starting to think I might know how to play this game a little bit.

I skated into the final table by playing the bubble game.  I was lucky and won, but was the short stack.  Encouragement from my watchers kept me from doing anything too stupid, and before long, I was up to a workable stack, and could actually play something other than push or fold poker.

I entered headsup play with a 4/1 disadvantage, and decided to activate my Lucko powers, and use some luckbox/aggro methods to take the whole effin’ thing down.

Thanks to Tragedy and Joanada, who I was chatting with throughout most of my run to the title, and also to Zeem, who railed for a little bit as well.

Oh, and congrats to our man Tragedy for taking down The Mookie last night.  Welcome to the club good friend.

It was a good night.

Apparently re-re-stealing with A-8 is gold.  Good luck in the Main Event LJ.  Hope you play better than you did here.

Full Tilt Poker Game #6882059217: The Mookie (51608223), Table 1 - 80/160 - No Limit Hold’em - 23:24:42 ET - 2008/06/18
Seat 1: bayne_s (4,040)
Seat 2: Joanne1111 (6,510)
Seat 4: pvanharibo (6,910)
Seat 5: NumbBono (2,090)
Seat 6: PinkyStinky (3,390)
Seat 8: MaggieO (3,195)
Seat 9: GScottW (8,101)
NumbBono posts the small blind of 80
PinkyStinky posts the big blind of 160
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to NumbBono [Ks Kd]
MaggieO folds
GScottW folds
bayne_s folds
Joanne1111 folds
pvanharibo raises to 480
NumbBono has 15 seconds left to act
NumbBono raises to 980
PinkyStinky folds
pvanharibo raises to 6,910, and is all in
NumbBono calls 1,110, and is all in
pvanharibo shows [Ad 8d]
NumbBono shows [Ks Kd]
pvanharibo: ty
Joanne1111: yeah that was awesome - watched the last hour
Uncalled bet of 4,820 returned to pvanharibo
*** FLOP *** [7s Kh Ah]
*** TURN *** [7s Kh Ah] [Ac]
*** RIVER *** [7s Kh Ah Ac] [7h]
pvanharibo shows a full house, Aces full of Sevens
NumbBono shows a full house, Kings full of Aces
pvanharibo wins the pot (4,340) with a full house, Aces full of Sevens
NumbBono stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4,340 | Rake 0
Board: [7s Kh Ah Ac 7h]
Seat 1: bayne_s didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 2: Joanne1111 didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 4: pvanharibo (button) showed [Ad 8d] and won (4,340) with a full house, Aces full of Sevens
Seat 5: NumbBono (small blind) showed [Ks Kd] and lost with a full house, Kings full of Aces
Seat 6: PinkyStinky (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: MaggieO didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 9: GScottW didn’t bet (folded)

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God this is good.

I’ve been playing the nightly $5.50 HORSE tourney at 10:45 CST on FTP for about a month now. Not every day, but whenever I was sitting there at the computer, and wasn’t too busy.

It started as a way to hone my non-NLHE skills. Granted, a $5 tourney doesn’t exactly draw the best competition, but it’s still a fun little tourney, and a cheap way to get some tourney experience in O8, Razz, Stud, and Stud8

I’ve final tabled this thing a few times, and my highest finish was third place a few weeks ago. I once jokingly said to Donkette, who has joined me in this tournament on occasion, “I’m gonna play this thing until I win it.”

Well, I guess I can’t play this one anymore.