My Donkey Play of the Month

I made my every-other-month showing at the Island Casino's Tuesday night deep stack. I really like this tournament except for the fact that it's on a work night. Just FYI to my millions of fans, the Island will have a Saturday deep stack at 5:00 p.m. for $100 (20,000 chips, dinner included). I believe this starts on March 12, but you can call to make sure.

Anyway . . . the blinds were 400-800 and I was the big blind with 800 invested. A player in middle position raised to 2000. There was a re-raise to 4600 from the hijack position. The button and small blind both called. I had 4-2 suited in clubs. THROW THIS AWAY!!! Hmmm. I was getting about 3 to 1 so I made the donkey call.

Flop came 9c-8c-4s. So there I sat with a pair of 4s and a huge 4-high flush draw - LOL. Original raiser bets about 5,000. The button and I both call so there are only 3 remaining in the pot.

The turn is a blank and everyone checks. Personally, as you will see below when you find out what the other 2 hands were, I think the button played this hand worse than I did, but oh well.

The card on the river that I got to see for free was the 2 of spades. 2 pair. No flush possibility. No straight possibility. I'm not too disappointed with this outcome. I believe it was at this point that the original raiser went all in, although he may have done that on the flop. Somebody bet something and I just called. The original raiser had pocket 10s. The button had pocket kings.

I won a pot of very close to 50,000 chips in a hand that took over 6 minutes to play and everyone at the table was amazed at the outcome, including yours truly the donkey. The guy to my right started pounding me on the back and saying, "Wow! What a gutsy pre-flop call!" It was too crazy. The guy with pocket kings was totally disgusted but, hey, as already indicated, he should have pushed harder and he never should have checked the turn. Maybe he was the real donkey??

Anyway, I made the final table and took 5th place for $330 on a $65 buy-in, so sometimes it pays to be a donkey. Hee haw!!