I play my very best donkey poker in this one. I don’t know what was wrong with me, but I was playing terribly. It wasn’t the “real” weekly tournament, so maybe I’ll try to defend my title tonight. With blinds at 25/50, I got knocked down to 160 when Maudie’s QQ beat my 99. She made a 3x BB raise from early position after pushing all in the previous hand with A4o. This set off all kinds of warning signals. I knew I was beat. My mouse hovered over the fold button, and then I went all in. The next hand, Wil raised to 150 (also 3x BB) and I had JJ. I pushed all in for my 10 more, and his AK beat me. It was fun, anyway.

I took my donkey play on over to the blogger side game, a high limit .01/.02, $5 buyin NLHE game. I lost 5 or 6 buyins there, playing even worse (but at least intentionally) than I did in the tournament. My standard preflop raise was 15x the big blind (0.30). We saw people get quads so many times there (3) that “thems quads beetches!” was simply reduced to “tqb” by the end. Or dqb. I don’t remember. It was lots of fun playing with 7 bloggers and 2 unsuspecting micro-limit players. One of them requested money from us, so I sent him a whole penny through the Stars money transfer. Hope to see everyone again tonight, and Saturday with Dr. Pauly, and Sunday at the WPBT Shootout in the Desert.

Update: Well, that sucked. Rivered by a two outer when all the money got in on the J77 flop when I had KJ vs TT. That left me with 170 with 50/100 blinds. Two hands later I get TT in my big blind, pushed all in by the small blind with J2, and he flops a J. I hate TT.