Playing the Donkey!

DeathDonkey made an appearance at Oceans-11 yesterday. I rolled into the casino around 8:30pm and the place was absolutely dead.

No 20/40 game at all, and DeathDonkey and another semi-regular playing heads up 40/80. I decide to join the party and make it 3-handed. I win the first two pots, get up a little, give a little back, while DD is just crushing the other player. He eventually quits on us, and DeathDonkey and I play heads up.

I start the heads up match with exactly 2 racks of chips. I lose early and win late. DeathDonkey got me down to about 3 or 4 stacks at one point, before I started winning.

Some interesting hands that occurred. I raise the button with AQo, DD 3-bets me, and I call. Flop comes AJx. He bets, I raise, he 3-bets, I call. Turn is a King. He bets, I call. River is an Ace. He bets, I call. He tables A9, and I table the winning hand. We had instructed the dealer to not pull in the bets, to speed up the game. He starts stacking up the bets in front of him. I am stunned for a second, and the dealer is not doing anything. I ask him, what are you doing, and he's all like it's a chop pot. I tell him I don't think so, and he finally realizes that my kicker plays.

Later he told me that he knew after the river that his kicker didn't play, and he figured that if I called the river with an Ace, that my kicker couldn't be playing either, since I guess he thought I would raise. Obviously I would raise all full-houses, so I guess his thinking is correct, but I had the one hand that I would play that way. I was planning on raising the turn, but the king was a very scary card, and he bet right into me, so at that point my plan was to just call down.

One cooler hand for me. I raise the button with K8s, DD 3-bets, and I call. I whiff the flop completely, but it comes ace-high. DD bets, and I forgot if I called or raised, but in any case we see a turn, which is a King. He bets, I raise, he 3-bets, and I call. River is an 8. He bets, I raise, he 3-bets again, and I tank, and finally call. He has pocket Kings, and I was drawing dead on the turn, and put in 6 big bets. Ouch.

He did two-out me and was trying to give me his money on one hand. Not sure if he was tilting or what he was thinking on this hand. I raise the button with A3 both clubs he called with T3o in the big blind. Flop comes 256 two clubs. He donks, I raise, he 3-bets, I call. Turn was a blank, he bets, I call. River is a T, he bets, and I call. He tables the winner of course.

I pulled off two sick river bluffs that both worked, and I showed him, one was King high, and the other was seven high. I got in a ton of river check-raises against him too. At one point, I had him gun-shy enough to actually check top-pair good kicker on the river on a not so scary board.

Playing DD, was a lot of fun for me, and it wouldn't had mattered if I won or lost. He's a very nice guy, and pleasure to play with and be around at the table, unlike most of the degenerates who play regularly.