Week 32 Results
1st ($175/ 13pts): Dallas "Lars Ullrich" Dickinson
2nd ($85/ 9pts): Ray "Yngwe Malmsteen" Flowers
3rd ($0 / 5pts): Brett "Ronnie James Dio" Dardio
High Stakes / 9 Players / 1 Table / 11:30pm Endtime
The theme of the night was "Dallas has the straight." I wish I could claim brilliant play, but that mantra was true more often than it was not.
The night started off appropriately, with Ray going all-in with the second-best straight that was possible. Dallas had the better one, and a stack was born. Ray got his own big stack a few hands later (at Martin's expense), but that was a cold comfort at best.
Much of the evening was spent in instructing new guy and Ryan family in-law, Brett, in the finer points of "Poker, McJo's Style." We finally explained to him that Adam can and will change the rules on a whim, and that one rule was "the new guy has to bake us all cookies." Somehow, he didn't buy that one. Asshole.
As far as poker goes, there was a lot of craziness early on, resulting in four re-buys in the first two rounds, along with a few all-ins that didn't get called. Eric went out first, followed by Daniel, Martin and Randy.
Daniel (who, for the record, does NOT pout... Steam? Yes. Seethe? Yes. Make the person who put a bad beat on him fear for his life? Absolutely. But POUT? Pouting is for girls.) had the worst luck of the night, to my recollection. He had his aces cracked near the end of round two, and was finally sent home on his all-in, triple-up bid. He had pocket 7s, went all-in, and was called by both Ray and Dallas. The flop came 7,8,Q. Dallas pushed Ray out with a bet (to which Ray, quite appropriately, responded "You'd better have him, idiot"), and it was down to Daniel and Dallas. Daniel showed his trip 7s, and was shocked to see Dallas expose trip Qs. The board paired the 8s, so Daniel lost to a better full house. Under McJo's rules (this week), that U-Boating actually won Daniel the right to a second rebuy. He wisely decided not to pour another $30 after the $40 he'd already put in, in the face of Dallas' mounting stack and his own astonishingly bad luck.
The rest of the night followed the same theme. Dallas had a big enough stack to see a lot of flops. More often than is reasonable, he got a piece of the flop (and many times, that piece turned out to be a straight). Mick finally fell, followed quickly by Adam. Since Adam finished out of the points, I bet you can guess how many times Ray and Dallas were told to fuck themselves over the course of the next hour.
Down to three (Dallas, Ray and new-guy Brett) and Dallas finally figured out - after Ray said it out loud - that he was in position to bully the table, since Ray wanted to finish in the money. All he cared about was having Brett go out before him, which he achieved. When heads-up began, the stacks were approximately Dallas: 165k, Ray: 40k. Ray managed to muscle his way up to something like D: 140k, Ray: 65k, but the stack (and the cards) never left Dallas for long.
I finally won on a flush draw that hit, to beat out Ray's flopped pair. At least I didn't win on a straight, right?
2nd ($85/ 9pts): Ray "Yngwe Malmsteen" Flowers
3rd ($0 / 5pts): Brett "Ronnie James Dio" Dardio
High Stakes / 9 Players / 1 Table / 11:30pm Endtime
The theme of the night was "Dallas has the straight." I wish I could claim brilliant play, but that mantra was true more often than it was not.
The night started off appropriately, with Ray going all-in with the second-best straight that was possible. Dallas had the better one, and a stack was born. Ray got his own big stack a few hands later (at Martin's expense), but that was a cold comfort at best.
Much of the evening was spent in instructing new guy and Ryan family in-law, Brett, in the finer points of "Poker, McJo's Style." We finally explained to him that Adam can and will change the rules on a whim, and that one rule was "the new guy has to bake us all cookies." Somehow, he didn't buy that one. Asshole.
As far as poker goes, there was a lot of craziness early on, resulting in four re-buys in the first two rounds, along with a few all-ins that didn't get called. Eric went out first, followed by Daniel, Martin and Randy.
Daniel (who, for the record, does NOT pout... Steam? Yes. Seethe? Yes. Make the person who put a bad beat on him fear for his life? Absolutely. But POUT? Pouting is for girls.) had the worst luck of the night, to my recollection. He had his aces cracked near the end of round two, and was finally sent home on his all-in, triple-up bid. He had pocket 7s, went all-in, and was called by both Ray and Dallas. The flop came 7,8,Q. Dallas pushed Ray out with a bet (to which Ray, quite appropriately, responded "You'd better have him, idiot"), and it was down to Daniel and Dallas. Daniel showed his trip 7s, and was shocked to see Dallas expose trip Qs. The board paired the 8s, so Daniel lost to a better full house. Under McJo's rules (this week), that U-Boating actually won Daniel the right to a second rebuy. He wisely decided not to pour another $30 after the $40 he'd already put in, in the face of Dallas' mounting stack and his own astonishingly bad luck.
The rest of the night followed the same theme. Dallas had a big enough stack to see a lot of flops. More often than is reasonable, he got a piece of the flop (and many times, that piece turned out to be a straight). Mick finally fell, followed quickly by Adam. Since Adam finished out of the points, I bet you can guess how many times Ray and Dallas were told to fuck themselves over the course of the next hour.
Down to three (Dallas, Ray and new-guy Brett) and Dallas finally figured out - after Ray said it out loud - that he was in position to bully the table, since Ray wanted to finish in the money. All he cared about was having Brett go out before him, which he achieved. When heads-up began, the stacks were approximately Dallas: 165k, Ray: 40k. Ray managed to muscle his way up to something like D: 140k, Ray: 65k, but the stack (and the cards) never left Dallas for long.
I finally won on a flush draw that hit, to beat out Ray's flopped pair. At least I didn't win on a straight, right?
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