here is a short tale for you ho’dem donkeys. me ? i just need the practice.
this should be good for a laugh, i thought. as part of my whack-a-mole poker experiment i registered for the 10c 360 player mtt on stars. i made the money, getting a 3-1 roi. the fact i got in the money makes me think i played not to badly. the part i want to share is the big stack who could have folded to the final table. he had other ideas and if anyone can shed some light on his 6th level thinking, feel free to enlighten this donk.
when i was moved to his table he had t11,500 and i was on t9k or so. here is how he very cleverly accumulated his stack.
first hand i see, he calls an all in, his 66 busts KK in fine style …. funny thing ? the third guy in the had 77 and hit dbq’s on the turn. the poor guy with kings must have wondered what the hell just happened. so mr-soon-to-be-huge-stack only collects a 9k side pot for his efforts. heeping him at his original t11,5k stack.
then it started …
all in pre, his AJ hits two pair crushing 77 and he doubles to t25k
his J6 loses to QK he drops to t20k
then he blast all in three in a row, gets called by a shortie, he shows T2 hits a deuce and busts the shortie, he now has t30k …. the blinds are only 200/400 and we’re inside the top 60 with 36 gettin paid. time to sit tight ? make the money ?
no way ! next half dozen hands he call pushes from short stacks, loses them all and drops to t20k and then
his T3 crushes AT for a 32k pot, his AJ beaten by KK for for a 17k pot, the blinds go up to 500/1000, i am down to 3.5k and the push fold ninja still has 32k,
then he crushes AK v AQ with his 35 for 47k so so sic. whee he has a 60k stak !! and we are inside the top 50 and he carries on either blasting if there is no raise before him, but he is also calling pushes before him.
then his T8 beats K9 and he hits 75k blinds still 500/1000 funny thing (normal) there was a K and an 8 on the flop, in goes the money, he river the T
he started getting caught when he tried to play 
he lost 20k of his stack when he bet the flop & turn & called the river holding a Q high flush, the river bet guy had the nut flush, ouch. not much sorrow for the table bully though. very next hand he actually folded to a river bet with his stack almost halved.
very next hand it all goes in on a 4,7,9 rainbow flop ….
he showed JQ off ….. hmmmm way beyond me
his opponent 89 off …. not surprised he bet his top pair
is it just me ? he went from a 69k stack to out, before the money, ((more or less bubble boy, inside the top 40 with 36 getting payed)) in three consecutive hands, the blinds were 600/1200 when he went and i had only 2k left ?? surely that is not the way to play a big stack ?
me ? i lasted to the 19-27 payouts, 24th actually !!
short-stack-ninja baby
Some people just don’t have a cklue about big stack poker and some just don’t have a clue about poker!! haha. I think he was the latter.
Oh and WTF are you doing playing Holdem Donkaments??!!
You have converted to the darkside?