The 12 million $ Donkfest
As you all know, there’s a tournament being played right now that will determine who is the world’s best Poker player. Obviously, this title doesn’t really mean anything, but we pretty much have to accept it and move on. If one were to scratch the surface just a little deeper, we’d be hard-pressed to recognize this tournament as anything worthwhile since the play in this thing has been, at times, nothing short of embarrassing, especially now that we’re closing in on finding our winner.
How bad is it? Open pushes with ace-rag with M’s around 20, calling off 40-50% of one’s stack on a gutshot and a over card, all-in re-steals with lowly pairs with stacks of 30-35 big blinds and it goes on and on and on. Let’s face it, the Poker explosion has gone a bit too far and it’s time to reel it in a little bit. The World Series MAIN EVENT is being played like a late night 10$ Poker Stars MTT. It’s pretty sad to think that the game’s top prize is being disputed by low-limit push bots who can’t even begin to understand the concept of big stack play or worst, post-flop play.
You really have to like Allen Cunningham’s chances at this point. Most of the Internet maniacs are gone and real Poker should be played at the final table where he is BY FAR the best player. It was pretty laughable to see him start the day as a middle of the pack stack, carefully pick his spots, since he understands the stack to blind ratio, and easily quintuple his stack in two hands. Really wonder what those three donks who busted out in the first 12 minutes were thinking. Tsk tsk...
It’s time to raise up the buy-in for the ME, plain and simple. Yes, it was cool to see a nobody win it a few times, but this thing is no longer about skill, it’s a complete lottery. I don’t wanna see a low-limit loser like myself making donk play after donk play and sitting at the final table with a cool shot at 12 mill while better players get sucked out by idiots hitting runner runner quads in pots they had no business being involved in to begin with.
posted by L'artiste @ 7:49 AM
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4 Comments:
I mostly agree with you but raising th e price is going to get more Internet Donks not less.. and the sites like Stars and Bodog are going to keep sending them no matter what. It is good publicity.
Thanks for making it out to the tourney last night.
SirF: I don’t know, if you bump the buy-in to 25 000$, that’s a pretty significant amount of money to send some donks to a tournament where they have less than 1% chance of winning it. I’m pretty sure it would cut the number of Internet qualifiers by at least 50%. And that would be TREMENDOUS.
Mookie: No probs, always a pleasure!
The H.O.R.S.E. tourney event was $50,000 this year and to me it accomplished what you are talking about. The winner of that event in my opinion is the "Champion" and the so called "Main Event" is just what you said it is.
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