Donkeys Always Draw

Given the low numbers this summer in Blogger tourneys, the BBT burnout factor, and a couple of other reasons, The Dookie is on summer vacation for a little while.

It will return in time, but for now, it’s taking a much needed rest, that’s all…

White Lines rocks baby!!!

I love Craig Ferguson, but can rarely catch the show since I’m usually in middle of a nice deep run in the nightly 4K HORSE around the time it comes on.

I did happen to see this opener for the show the other night, and LOVED IT!!!

I’ve always been a Duran Duran fan, but I’d forgotten about this little gem of a cover song from the nineties. Add puppets, a porn star moustache, and some wicked dance moves, and you’ve got a clip that puts a much needed smile on my face every time I watch it.

Sorry I can’t embed the video, as I’m posting from the new Blackberry WordPress App, and that functionality isn’t there yet.

This should be the link for the full YouTube version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYyy1VUFav0&client=mv-google&gl=CA&hl=en&nomobile=1

And here’s the link for the video on the mobile version of YouTube.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qYyy1VUFav0&client=mv-google&gl=CA&hl=en

Enjoy!!!

From the new Blackberry Wordpress App

So Bam Bam made the comment that I only post wins on my blog here.  Well here’s proof that I don’t win every single HORSE tournament that I enter, and that I can actually post about it.

This one came a day after winning the donkey $5 HORSE.  If you look carefully…not a win.

The next day I did this.  Once again, not a win, but close.

So there you have it, proof that I don’t win every tournament I enter.

…and I win HORSE tournaments.

I know, it’s only a $5 donkey tourney, but I’ve seriously owned this thing for a year now (I think this is the 8th win or so), and I’ve been starting to do the same in the nightly 4K horse tourney.

Ya gotta toot your horn when you can.

Toot Toot

Shout out to Turtle for railing all the way to the end.  He will attest that I played a wicked ass heads-up game and won with just a little bit of luck and a lot of skill.

I know the high rollers in the blogger community could give a shit less about winning a $5 tourney, but to me, it’s a pretty cool thing to not only win this thing, but win it 8-9 times in the last 12 months.

I have game, who’s gonna stake me for the 50K HORSE at the WSOP then?

PokerNews has some excellent coverage of the WSOP, just like in years past.  But I noticed something that really rang a bell with me tonight while keeping up on the final table of the HORSE tournament that Lana ran deep in .

Yep, that’s right.  “Dank Position” is now an official part of the poker vernacular.  As co-host of BuddyDank Radio, I feel proud that a little bit of our drunken dialog has become mainstream, but at the same time, I have a feeling that this may be the “jump the shark” moment for this phrase.  How long is it before “Dank Position” goes down as this years “BOOOOOOM”, and fades away into the sunset as yet another crafty poker term that has run it’s course.

For Buddy, I’m sure he’s putting the barrel in his mouth right now, and has his finger on the trigger now that his name is forever associated with last place in a forum much greater than the poker blogger community.

However it turns out, thanks F-Train for the shout out to us at BuddyDank Radio.

I know, a 24th place finish isn’t really something to write home about, but it was for a nice hunk of cash (by my standards).  Plus outlasting that many terrible players is a pretty good accomplishment

Played top notch in this thing, my HORSE game is really working right now.  Caught some pretty good cards in the 2nd hour in Razz and Stud to take me to a top 10 stack, and I pretty much stayed in the top 50 the rest of the tourney.

Used the right balance of patience and aggression up until the very end.

It helped that I was getting big hands that held up.  It also helped that there’s a lot of folks out there that like to play for half the pot at best, and chase low draws with no high hand whatsoever.

This was also a huge help for me.

Thanks to all the people who were railing me.  Nice to have a few people in your corner pulling for you.  Too many to mention, but there were quite a few over the course of the evening.

The real money to be made on this MSOP thing is in the sats.  They are just SOOOOOOO soft. Of course that money is given to you in T dollars, but that can be coverted to real money for a small fee I think.  I made a nice hunk of change just playing the sats to this tourney, and I plan on playing a bunch of sats for the upcoming mixed game MSOP events as well.

Mookie tonight.  Back to no-limit for one tourney I guess.

The Dookie is off tonight.  FTP has been messing with it, and it didn’t get created this week.  Just as well, I think the Dook needed a week of summer vacation.

Since there’s no Dookie, it’s place will be taken by the nightly $5 HORSE tourney on FTP that goes off at 10:45 cst. Come play donkey HORSE with me.

Last night, The Mookie had 25 runners.  The last time The Mookie had that few entrants was on Christmas Eve, 2008, with a mere 15 entrants (presumably Jewish or Muslim).

Prior to that, and I only have records back to 12/13/2006, there has never been a smaller field.

BBT Burnout is definitely a factor, but it’s never been this bad.

What is happening to my home game?

So last week, during The Dookie, ScottMC started piping up about how The Dookie had run it’s course, and needed to be put out to pasture…blah blah blah…

I told Scotty that if I won The Dookie that night, I’d let him choose the following week’s game, format, and buy in for The Dook.  Now, I was pretty short stacked at the time, but put a hurting on the table from that point on, and of course, won the thing.

So Scotty gets his wish.

So tonight, on a very special episode of Blossom The Dookie,  I present you with…

$5 buy in, one $5 rebuy, one $5 add-on.  Yep, that’s Scotty’s choice.

Of course, it remains to be seen if anyone is gonna play anything here in the first week sans BBT in quite some time.

This weeks regularly scheduled HORSE game will be moved to next week.

I was ready to hang it up, call it a day as a poker player.  I withdrew a bunch a little while back because the bills had to be paid.  I did leave myself with just a little bit to play with.

Well, I dropped about half of that little bit into one tournament tonight, and did OK.

Seriously, I don’t even play this tourney that much, and I’m soooooooo in the black on it.

Now that the BBT is over, I’m sure I’ll be winning Mookies and Skills Games left and right……that’s what I do.  My only wish is that every blogger tourney can become a Horse game.

I wanna dance…

And of course….

Muffin