Championship Recap

Well, it really wouldn't feel right to continue trash talking Musky Boy after he earned the Championship. He played his normal game even making a couple questionable calls in times against looser players when he felt he was beat. He was short stacked late (have you heard that before?). But he got his money in when he had decent hands, and when he got chips, he pushed everyone else around.

I won't do an analysis of the tournaments, becuase face it, everyone who is reading this was there. So instead I'm going to make commentary on how people won/lost. And to make it interesting, I'll compare them to Movie Characters.

Halfman/Half Amazing (Rupert Montjoy, The Mouse that Roared) - Winner of the first tournament. Made all his chips on a joke of a hand. Close to the bubble, a huge hand developed when the short stack went all in (with 55). The hand ended up with 4 players all in. On 4rth, when Halfman moved in on an inside straight draw with 1 card to come. When all the action of betting was over, with 3 suited cards on the board, the leading hand was 55. Two of the players were in with 3-9 and 3-8. More than half the chips in play were in the middle. You can guess that he hit that hand. But becuase the hand was so stupid, he got demoted to 1/4 Amazing, 3/4 man.

Musky Boy - (John Matrix from Commando) The Boy faced serious elimination in 4-5 hands. He TIED on 2 of them to keep him alive. But as it got late, and he amassed some chips, he dominated the other players and totally earned his victory. Like the character in the classic but ridiculous action movie from the 80's, bullets were flying all around him, and he never got scratched. But that's all the positive press he gets in this space until he gets his lazy ass working and contributes something.

Regulator (Frank Torrey from Shane) - Off his game all night. He had the unfortunate experience of being overly aggressive against trip 9s. He was pushy in all the wrong circumstances. Frank Torrey was the schlub who Jack Palance goaded into a gunfight. We know how that ended up too.

Squeaky (Fax Machine from Office Space)- Squeaks actually played pretty well. He was the big stack late. He was in good position. But, as so often happens to Squeaky, he got bullied when the game got short handed. I was going to call him Ned Beatty from Deliverance, but thought that would be too harsh, however appropriate. So, I'm calling him the Fax Machine from Office Space.

Dan - (Jack Killian) Dan limped onto the final table in game 1, and then made it to the last 3 in trouney 2. He called almost every bet, and I think he went the entire night without raising a single time. Weak as the reference may be, he gets the title of Jack Kilian from the short lived TV Show "Midnight Caller."

Doc - (Buck Turgidson) Doc went out FIRST in the second tourney when his 5c hit the board of 4 clubs. Not thinking that it was likely anyone else had a better club, he went all in and...got beat by a better club. Too aggressive. So, he gets the ultra-aggressive Buck Turgidson from Dr. Strangelove.

Sausage King - (Italian Mobster in Untouchables) The King again thought no hand could beat his Big Slick. So he went all in, and found his hand wanting. As Sean Connery told the mobster in the famous scene, you don't bring a knife to a gun fight.