Fish Bubbles and the Promised Land - April 8, 2011 Results and Pictures

We had 2 Dippers in the MB Poker open last night.  Co reports with a head shake that it went terrible.  The details were sketchy but apparently his K9 got run down by a straight.  With only 20 minutes of playing time, he was ready to play some cards!  Lemon was the other player that ponied up and he was off to a promising start.  I was getting twitter like updates as he knocked out 4 other players and built up quite a stack.  Then the guy that had him covered at the table limped before him and was the only caller when Mike raised with 10s.  The flop came 10, 6 , 2 and the guy checked to our hero.  Mike bet out and got raised all in.  Mike calls and the guy tables AA.  Of course an Ace came and Mike was out long before the money.

Both Lemon and Co showed for the game last night.  So did Dandy, Kailey and Dycker - all directly from the airport, jonesin for some poker.  Nice!

The tournament started with 10 people and 1 fish seated at 2 tables.  No other entrants showed by the second level so we combined to make a cosy table of 11.

The couples table - BSB and Ali G, Dycker and Kailey, T-Money Mart and the ATM, Lemon.

Was that a raise of $100 Papasan?  I smell something fishy!

They say the shirt makes the man.

It's like Wrestlemania, there can only be one left standing.

This reminds me of a Hardy Boys book - T-Mart and the case of the vanishing chips.

This was a crazy hand - 4 players all in and Co's AA holds up.

I'm no biologist, but I'm pretty sure fish make bubbles and Papasan was no different.  In his first poker game ever, he was the bubble boy.  Sheldon and Geppedo were very helpful at his first table draw to help out with the finer things in the game like explaining what the 4 suits were.  I think the fact that Sheldon used a bottle of tartar sauce as his card marker and Mike a lemon were telling signs that they wished to carve him up and have a meal of fish and chips.

Ali-G had another strong showing and finished in the money yet again (this girl never misses)!

The Co-Bra and the snake charmer. 

Pivotal hand - I had J9 of hearts and flop open ended, turn the flush draw and blank the river.   Hello second place!

So it was down to Co and I.  Co started with 54997 chips and I had 3.  I did make a game of it but it was taking a while and Co does not like to see a juicy cash game playing beside him that he is not playing in, so he stepped on the gas and ran me over.  Congratulations!  (Given the choice, I think this win means more to him than taking down some silly MB poker open).

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

The cash game was a 3 ring donk fest as usual with Dandy, Sheldon and I felting some actual poker players to all come out winners.

A totally unrelated picture of the cast of Hee Haw.

Call me Mary.  Last night I rode a donkey to the promised land.  I think when Dandy and Brain Kramp were *smashing hooves, I guess Kramper's horseshoe fell off and his luck ran out.

There was another jackpot taken down last night -  Click here to see someone that is REALLY exited to get back a small % of the nights losses...

Here are a couple of pictures from the game;

To be honest this is the only picture I have of Big Country and he's too damn big to fit in the photo.

As Ali-G says "This is Bob's gym teacher pose".  Meanwhile Army gets into the soothing sounds of Chris DeBurgh who happened to be on the random 80's mix.

Kramp lays down 22 to a small raise 5 handed and the flop comes 229.   On a related note, my pizza cat, Papa John took the DonkeyTest.com quiz and scored 91 - 3 better than Brain Kramp.

*smashing hooves - the practice where two donkeys get really excited and attempt to hi-five one another.