That Was a Crazy Game of Poker

Dave T. hosted the second straight road game for Donkeytown, and it turned out to be quite the game(s)!

Nine players started the $40 buy-in game with the equivalent of 200 big blinds, but from the start it was apparent that this was no "deep stack" poker.  The standard preflop raise for the first hour was anywhere from 6 to 12 times the big blind, something we have never seen before in Donkeytown!  It didn't help that a number of big hands and big flops were dealt, adding to the incredible action and huge pots right from the start!  Trips, full houses, straights and flushes seemed to be the norm.

And the Donkeytown quad drought, which lasted for more than a year, ended shortly thereafter!  I managed to squeeze into a rare unraised preflop pot in late position with 4-6 offsuit (Mark T.'s favorite hand), and the flop was 4-4-4!  Unluckily for Corky, he held J-J and I took a pretty large pot off of him.

After that, the action slowed down and it was apparent that the goal became surviving the bubble (top 3).  Along the way, Jeff suffered the biggest cooler of the night, holding Qd 7d on a board with three diamonds, one of them being the King of diamonds.  Holding the second nuts, he was put all in on the turn, and after some deliberation called Dave C., only to see the bad news -- Dave had the nut flush with Ad 2d, and Jeff was drawing dead.

Because of the early action, the bubble burst after only 3 hours of play, and with nearly everyone who busted out early still hanging around Dave T.'s pad, a chop was agreed upon between Tom, Dave T., and Dave C. in order to make room for a second game.  Tom had 39% of the chips, and took the top prize of $130; Dave T. had 35% of the chips and earned $122, while Dave C. had 26% of the chips and took $108.

Game 2 featured a $20 buy-in among 8 players.  The poker was more conventional, except for the unusual payout structure of $105-$55.  The bubble was again tight, and Jeff again took a tough beat to finish third when his pocket 10's was outflopped by Corky's two pair with 7-3.  Corky eventually took down the first prize over Dave T.

Thanks again to Dave T. for hosting and providing us with free pizza and snacks!  We hope to return someday to "Northeast Donkeytown"!