Week 29 Results
1st ($70 / 10pts): Lee "Rule Boy" Nichols
2nd ($0/ 7pts): Josh "Never Rebuy" Spurgess
3rd ($0 / 4pts): Randall "Hanging In There" Ryan
Low Stakes / 7 Players / 1 Table / 12:00 Endtime
***EDIT***So Josh pointed out a huge omission from this write-up: At one point during the evening, Mick flopped a royal flush. And if my now badly faded memory serves, she was able to milk that hand for some serious chips.
The most notable thing about this game was not the play on the table, but the complete abandonment of McJo's rules. You remember when AIDS finally made the free-love Sixties and Seventies backfire? Same kind of thing here. After several weeks of allowing "charity re-buys" for players who should have been eliminated, it got completely out of control last night. Adam, on what should have been his final stack of chips in the third round, got massacred on a pair of bullets and begged back into the game. I argued vociferously that we were heading down the wrong path, but the other pussies at the table gave in. Mick disapproved but abstained from voting (some kind of crap about "not wanting to end my marriage"). However, she then made the fantastic parliamentary maneuver that exposed the flaw in everyone else's bleeding hearts: She said, "Okay fine, but now I'm going to rebuy no matter when I bust out of the game." Hey, who was going to tell her no? Well, about two hands later I busted, and of course I said, "Well fuck y'all, if you get to rebuy so do I." So now, armed with another 16K of completely illegitimate chips, I began nailing some hands, including a huge one from Mick -- for whom "all in" when there are a pair of 8s on the board wasn't enough of a clue that I had trip 8s. Seriously, I don't mean to rub your nose in it Mick, but that was the worst call I've seen you make in the several years we've been playing poker together. (Waitaminnit, why am I going easy on Mick? She always rides my ass like a pack mule with the trash talking. HA! HA! Suck on it, Mick!)
Thankfully, Mick did not actually use the rebuy privilege that she had granted herself, and neither did anyone else. After that, all I had to do was use my huge stack and good cards to bully Randy and Josh out of the game. There was a brief moment where Josh hit a couple of big hands and rallied to 45K or so, but The Stack ultimately proved invincible. So I took what is certainly the least legitimate win in McJo's history. I hope we've all learned a lesson here. (Which doesn't mean I'm giving one penny of the $70 back.)
Next week: The lunatics cede authority of the asylum back to the doctors, the constitution gets restored, everybody wears condoms, and rules get followed. Adam promised.
2nd ($0/ 7pts): Josh "Never Rebuy" Spurgess
3rd ($0 / 4pts): Randall "Hanging In There" Ryan
Low Stakes / 7 Players / 1 Table / 12:00 Endtime
***EDIT***So Josh pointed out a huge omission from this write-up: At one point during the evening, Mick flopped a royal flush. And if my now badly faded memory serves, she was able to milk that hand for some serious chips.
The most notable thing about this game was not the play on the table, but the complete abandonment of McJo's rules. You remember when AIDS finally made the free-love Sixties and Seventies backfire? Same kind of thing here. After several weeks of allowing "charity re-buys" for players who should have been eliminated, it got completely out of control last night. Adam, on what should have been his final stack of chips in the third round, got massacred on a pair of bullets and begged back into the game. I argued vociferously that we were heading down the wrong path, but the other pussies at the table gave in. Mick disapproved but abstained from voting (some kind of crap about "not wanting to end my marriage"). However, she then made the fantastic parliamentary maneuver that exposed the flaw in everyone else's bleeding hearts: She said, "Okay fine, but now I'm going to rebuy no matter when I bust out of the game." Hey, who was going to tell her no? Well, about two hands later I busted, and of course I said, "Well fuck y'all, if you get to rebuy so do I." So now, armed with another 16K of completely illegitimate chips, I began nailing some hands, including a huge one from Mick -- for whom "all in" when there are a pair of 8s on the board wasn't enough of a clue that I had trip 8s. Seriously, I don't mean to rub your nose in it Mick, but that was the worst call I've seen you make in the several years we've been playing poker together. (Waitaminnit, why am I going easy on Mick? She always rides my ass like a pack mule with the trash talking. HA! HA! Suck on it, Mick!)
Thankfully, Mick did not actually use the rebuy privilege that she had granted herself, and neither did anyone else. After that, all I had to do was use my huge stack and good cards to bully Randy and Josh out of the game. There was a brief moment where Josh hit a couple of big hands and rallied to 45K or so, but The Stack ultimately proved invincible. So I took what is certainly the least legitimate win in McJo's history. I hope we've all learned a lesson here. (Which doesn't mean I'm giving one penny of the $70 back.)
Next week: The lunatics cede authority of the asylum back to the doctors, the constitution gets restored, everybody wears condoms, and rules get followed. Adam promised.
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