I'm Gonna Clock Someone - May 20, 2011 Results and Photos

Last night's game started with the tournament.  To start the night Brain Kramp had been the subject of many ill-intentioned comments, so I offered him an olive branch and said that I would be in his corner and back him for the night.  This would be at no additional cost, although the lesson rates still applied.

I am thinking about running a promotion, or rather a punishment where the last person to arrive late has to wear the Flava Flav gear.  All but 2 people (well one and me) showed up for the posted time.  And the person that showed up on time thought the tournament started earlier.  The other players were Hellmuthian with their entrance.  But I digress...

Being late was not Flava Flav's only chronic problem

*Sigh - OK - Brain Kramp won, alright?  Whew, that hurt a little.  Sorry to ruin any possible suspense, but it hurts less to rip off the band aid than than to do the slow peel.

Blah blah blah, OK, moving along with the post...

The Money Shot

Kailey made the money yet again.  For those that didn't vote for her and Co in the last poll, go put your head in the corner for 1 minute before you read on.

There - purgatory over.  Kailey played great!  Another strong showing but she couldn't kick some ass* when faced with Kramp-a-Lamp-a-Ding-Dong heads up.  She did however knock off both myself and Papasan in the same hand...

These are not the first dudes Kailey has left looking like this.

Jason Spades did what Jason Spades does.  He makes money at poker.  He sweated a small stack for some time, but Kailey and Brain Kramp refused to give him any room to build and he made a bit of cheddar for finishing in 3rd.

The Cash Game

What we rarely see is how a true student of the game prepares for an action game of No Limit Hold Em like we run.  Dandy, fresh off multiple wins following his poker lessons in T.O. has agreed to let us "behind the scenes" during his prep session...

Dandy reviewing his video log of his lessons with Brain Kramp for inspiration.  I am Dandylion, hear me ROAR!

This week the cash game was locked and loaded and firing with both barrels right from the gate.  I think a small part of this might be attributed to Lemon chasing his 10+ish re-buys from the tournament and setting up camp in blufftown.  In all fairness, money kept flying onto the table as the deck set up victim after victim with big pair over big pair and big draws vs made hands.  You couldn't play with fear on this night.

Jason had AK, Lemon A9, the 9 windows, Jason yelped and the King-ball was the second card off the deck - sweet justice was served as a steaming pile of white chips!

Lemon AKA Russell Hantz and T-Mart played poker "Survivor" but Lemon's chips abandoned him at the merge.

I'm not going to write a smart comment about Dandy because frankly this picture frightens me, and I don't want to be accused of irony.

I am not kidding when I say that the above pictures were the cause of Lemon losing his mind.  He was rambling on to himself about how he is looking forward to going to Vegas with Dandy and wearing just sweater vests on the strip with each of them rocking a boom box on their shoulders.  Mildly amusing - sure, (probably funnier if Lemon just shaved his arms and neck and rocked a faux sweater vest) but I actually thought we were going to have to paper - rock - scissors to see who would have to drag his carcass out of the way so we could continue playing.

Ali and Bob flew in from Vegas during our tournament and we frantically texted game updates throughout.  When they landed, they drove into town during the first few hours of the cash game, and eventually made it to the table where BSB promptly picked up where he left off at the Flamingo hours earlier - shaking his head at his mis-fortune.

I want to give a shout out to Brain Kramp's brother Mikeweiser who came out for the first time and fit right in; he was making fun of Chris even worse than the rest of us.

Sheldonkey didn't show up this week - I suspect he wants to keep a clean sweep at the poll that's currently running and didn't want to have a couple of unlucky hands ruin all he's worked so hard to accomplish.

Several nicknames blossomed this week as well. First of all Brain Kramp was particularly snake bit by 7 Nation Army again this week and kept referring to him as The Anti-Chris.  Army seemed to take great pleasure in Kramp's pain.  Then Kramp turned his focus on Lemon wanted to name him "Easy Money Lemon" which got shortened to EML in short order.  It got thrown around like Lemon's stack and was great fun to needle with.  It also makes Lemon's eyes do a slow roll, which as we all know is bad poker etiquette, but we wouldn't want to tap the glass now would we?  If Brain Kramp spent as much time thinking about his poker game as he did thinking about giving poker names, he'd have less of an excuse when he lost.

AND FINALLY...the jackpot was won yet again this week, this time by T-Money Mart.  You can see the hand details here.  At the cash game she won a lot of chips and she won a lot of hearts (well heart draws really, but what's the difference?)

*ass - A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity.  Also known as a donkey or a chris.