Sausage Fest 2005

Before we get to the recap, I am considering changing the MPT quote from "where good players get sucked out." Mainly it's becuase there are no good players on the MPT. I saw this quote today and I think it's appropriate to us:

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Laurence J. Peter

The MPT had a wild and wooly event last Saturday night. There was a spread, against my personal wishes. But when the queen of the house says something, I listen. So you can all thank her for the generous amount of Combos & cookies you were treated to. There were tic-tacs galore. And in the best possible seating arrangement, Reg and Magic (the two smokers) were at the head of the table, up wind of all non-smokers.

Sausage King reigned supreme. Winning both events. By the time he got his opponents heads up, he had such a drastic lead, he wouldn’t even consider taking less money so he could make it home 10 minutes earlier. OK, Sausage, that was the last dig I’ll make about your taking a deal last time out.

Personally, the most amusing thing was the MPT initiation of Flipper. Up until now, he hadn’t had an MPT style beating. As blinds were going up, he looked down at AK. He pushed. SK was getting basically even money on his call, because the bet was 12x the BB. But SK looked down and saw something even better than the MPT legendary Iven (47o). He saw 5-7 (they were soooted). He called for almost all of his chips, and rivered a pair to take out Flipper. This set Flipper steaming. It only got worse in the side Omaha game. Squeaky stayed in against Flipper AAxx to huge bets only to river a straight for all of Flipper’s chips.

Undercover Brother (worst nickname ever) had an eventful night. He took out the host, yours truly, his brother in law, twice – both times being behind when the money was in. Had the beats been worse, he would have risked banishment from the smokatorium. Karma is a bitch however late in the game, he took on the only other big stack, and went all in pre-flop with 44 against KK.

My other favorite highlight came on the second hand of the night. Pre-flop, Squeaky and Numb Nuts got into a raise off. Regulator made a great laydown of AQ soooted. Squeaky got Numb Nuts all in holding AA against NN’s KK. After the hand, Squeaky had the following to say. “AA scares me. I didn’t want callers.” Shockingly, Squeaky was out early in both events….

Half-man half-crappy pulled a Magic Man. Musky folded KK on a Q high flop when Half-man shook so badly the garage floor shook. It’s good to know I’m not alone…Half-man was holding AA.

MuskyBoy finished out of the money both times. Apparently HOH2 didn’t help his game out at all. There is no truth to the rumor that he is currently waiting for an arbitration hearing after testing positive for ‘performance enhancing substances.’ Regulator didn’t completely suck. Squeaky did. Even though it had already been taken, Beeker made a play for the “Beginner’s Luck” nickname.

Finally, I feel the need to follow up on the “I fear Omaha” discussion from last week. We did a side game twice during the night. It was difficult to adjust to for many. That was without the Hi/Lo split. Keep in mind that this was at 2AM, but on the last hand played, yours truly took all of Squeaky’s money with a Full House. Except that I didn’t see the FH, and almost gave Squeaky the pot. Ha. Clearly, Reg and Musky were right. This doesn’t change the fact that they are both clearly metathesiophobics.