That's Mr. Donkey To You

We had 2 games on Friday night. The first one was a $15 buy-in with 5 players: Bob T., Dave T., Tom H., Darren C. and Ian B. After 6 hands of "overtime" were completed, Darren and Dave agreed on a chop ($45 and $30, respectively.)

The newly instated Donkeytown rules include a provision for ending a game at a prescribed time. Because we had the Bounty Tournament scheduled at 8:00, a random number (ranging from 5-8) of hands was selected at 7:50. After that number of hands, if players did not agree to a chop, they would start playing each hand all-in until the game ends.

I don't plan on this rule being implemented often; it's kind of a "donkey" way to end it, so I will try my hardest to structure tournaments so they should end before this happens. In last night's case, the last blind level was reached after 77 minutes of play, and the game lasted another half hour after that, so I'd say it was a success.

In the Bounty Tournament ($25 buy-in), players received a $15 bounty for each player they knocked out of the tournament. We had the same 5 players for this game, plus Jeff B. and David C.

David C. had a short visit at Donkeytown, as I held QQ vs Dave's AQ, and on a flop that included an Ace and a Queen, he was on the cooler end of an all-in that knocked him out on the 7th hand of the game.

Things rolled in favor of the Donkeytown Mayor (hey, that's me) for most of the night, as I called with 77 against Ian's KK and spiked another 7 to knock him out.

I later got into a pot with Dave T., who had 2 pair after the turn and raised me all-in. I held a pair and an open-ended straight draw and was getting 2:1 odds on my call. But it was for a lot of chips and I made what I now think was the incorrect play -- I called. Unfortunately for Dave T., I hit my straight on the river.

In the end, "Mr. Donkey" knocked out every player at the table. Bob made a comeback at the end to draw nearly even, and we eventually agreed to a chop. I took $130 for first place plus the bounties, and Bob took $45 for second.