Donkeys Always Draw - The Adventures of an Online Poker Playing Donkey

I rarely play the RiverChasers these days.  It starts a little too early for me most weeks, but somehow I was able to manage an appearance there this week.

I’ve won a few blogger tournaments in my day…the MATH, Skills Series, Mookie, Dookie, BBT Freeroll, but I’ve never had much success in the RiverChasers.

I guess I can cross this one off my list now.  An early suckout on Pushmonkey put me near the top, and I took the lead shortly thereafter and didn’t give it up until the bloody end.  Everything was working for me on this one.  I played a style similar to the Lucko/LJ school of blogger tournament thought, and it worked well for me, which means I probably pissed off at least three quarters of the field.

Wednesday…a great night of the week.  A great night due the the fact that the flagship blogger tournament, The Mookie, takes place at this time.

I haven’t been playing too much lately.  The occasional nightly $5 HORSE tourney, and The Mookie/Dookie have pretty much been it.

That’s fine though, it’s summer, and quite honestly, I haven’t had a great desire to play too much these days.  I cashed out a great deal of the bankroll a couple of months ago, and ever since then I haven’t been playing much.  I noticed the other day that the FTP bankroll had actually dropped below $200.  Yikes, that’s not much to play with.  Fortunately, I took second the other night in the nightly HORSE donkfest, and pumped up the roll a little bit.  Though it’s still quite a bit shy of the nearly 2K it was up to before I cleared it out, how depressing.  At least I can say that I’ve made money from poker.

Back to tonight’s festivities… Buddy is on the road this week, and has once again allowed me to fill in on BuddyDank Radio for him during The Mookie.  I’ll be broadcasting the event, with Joanada as the co-host as usual, and we’re working on a potential guest or two for the evening.  We’ll see what shakes out, but rest assured, it will be great fun once again.  Think POOOOOSHHHH FEST if you want a spoiler…

I’ve been a little lax pimping The Dookie lately, but it will be there, as always, at 10:30 CST tonight.  The format tonight is good old NLHE Turbo, and for a mere $5 buyin, you can’t beat the price.

I had plans on implementing some type of leaderboard for the Dookie, but I have to disagree with my good friend Mick Jagger, because time is not on my side these days.  Maybe sometime down the road I’ll get something setup, but for now, it’s on hold.  It’s still a fun little tournament though , and a nice complement to the Main Event.

So don’t forget to tune in to BuddyDank Radio tonight…The Authoritative Blogger Poker Radio Station.

…but I don’t.

Guy hits on 6th and 7th street to win, in a pot that would have turned the tables.

In the words of F. Gump……”It happens”

I got tagged by OhCaptain to do one of these…I don’t know what the hell you call it, and normally I don’t do these, but why not, it’s Friday, I’m getting a drink on, and Michael Phelps just won his 94th gold medal.

The Rules: Rules are posted at the beginning. At the end of the post, the player tags 5 people and posts their names. Then the player goes to each of the “named” people’s blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. If you’ve been tagged, you do the same, letting the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer. They, in turn, answer the following questions.

1. What was I doing 10 years ago: I had just moved back to Iowa from Chicago, and was trying to figure out what I was gonna do for a living.  I had just started a relationship with someone who ultimately drained nearly four years away from my twentysomethings.
2. What are 5 things on my to-do list today:
   • Talk Iggy into coming on BuddyDank Radio
   • Renew my Sam’s Club membership so I can buy large amounts of things cheaply
   • Take Numb Jr. to the doctor if his cold doesn’t improve (put on hold till tomorrow)
   • Download……Buy… some Curb Your Enthusiasm because it’s been recommended to me by more than one person in the last week.
   • Find the cheapest place to buy a 1TB hard drive.
3. Snacks I enjoy: Skittles, Starburst, Guinness
4. Places I’ve lived: Small Town Iowa, Big Town Iowa, Kansas City, Chicago
5. Things I would do if I were a billionaire: “I would relax… I would sit on my ass all day… I would do nothing.”

Not forwarding this on to anyone…let’s kill this right now.

I’ve created a Fantasy Football League for poker bloggers.  I thought about making it a pay league, but quite honestly, I’m in way too many money leagues, and would like to do one for fun with friends, and no money involved.

It’s pretty standard setup…Head to Head, 10 teams (if there’s enough interest, we can bump it to 12).  Hosted on ESPN Fantasy Games.

I’d like to get some active players involved.  No idea on the draft date yet.  I’m thinking Sunday night, August 30th, but this is open to discussion.

Email me at numbbono (at) donkeysdraw (dot) com if you’re interested.  Or you can hit me up on Yahoo Chat at numb_bono.

I’ve decided to make The Dookie NLHE, with the exception of the first Wednesday of each month.  Well, this being the first Wednesday of the month, what better way to kick off the rotation with a little Razz.

The Dookie
10:30 cst
Turbo Razz
password - vegas1

Remember the rule…always raise in Razz.

This one was a tremendous amount of fun.  I love HORSE, and I love winning in HORSE even more so.

Let me start off by saying that I hate the Green Bay Packers, and I hate Brett Favre.  I’m a Detroit Lions fan, so it’s a divisional rivalry thing.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s talk about this.

So here’s the rundown.

Favre has been wishy washy about whether or not he’s going to retire for a few seasons prior to 2007, taking his time after each season was over to make his decision, But ultimately returning.

During the few seasons leading up to 2007, Favre’s game has been declining each year, with his deficiencies becoming more and more evident.  Throwing crazy passes into tight spots, leading the league in interceptions (2005), it certainly looked like he was on his way out of the game.

So Favre does his little song and dance in the spring of 2007, and decides to come back.  And lo and behold, he has a magnificent 2007, nearly leading the Packers into the Super Bowl.

Come spring, the 38 year old Favre decides to retire in a tearful press conference that made me want to vomit in a bucket, than drink a mug of said vomit so I wouldn’t have to watch the screen anymore.

Then the shit starts up.  As the summer progresses, it’s becoming more evident that Queen Favre just might not be ready to hang up the spikes.  In the meantime, the FudgePackers have already made plans to proceed without him.

So here we are today.  We have a team that would rather pay one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game to stay retired than to have him command a team that has some pretty decent pieces in place to make another run:

from ESPN on 7/31/2008

WTMJ television in Milwaukee reported the team offered Favre several million dollars to stay retired, and the Green Bay Press-Gazette reported on its Web site that the team offered Favre “a substantial salary” to stay away. Both reports cited sources close to Favre. But signs still point to the quarterback reporting to Packers camp.

My Detroit Lions are fucked up.  Matt Millen has absolutely ruined that team, but this is completely beyond anything that we are going through.

The Lions organization may have found an indirect way of driving Barry Sanders away, but we never would have paid him to stay away.

Granted, Favre has jerked the Packers around with his decision making process, but man, how can you pay this guy not to play.  Do they really think that Aaron Rodgers is that good? 

Anything that makes the Packers weaker is a good thing in my book, so I’m gonna eat up all this drama, and pray that Matt Millen gets hit by a truck next week.

Congratulations to Joanada for taking down the this week’s Dookie.  Work has been kicking my ass, and I’ve got a billion other irons in the fire that are non-poker related.  After fighting through a half-day today, I’m outta here for the weekend for some stunt drinking with some old college buddies, and won’t be back until Sunday night.  I’ll put up a little more about the Dookie at that point.

I do plan on keeping a leaderboard for the Dookie so we can finally answer the question that we’ve all been wondering…

Who is the biggest turbo donkey out there?

I’ll see you all when I return from my weekend, which is sure to be filled with copius amounts of booze, strippers and bestiality.