Thursday, November 03, 2005
I've been working on some ideas for different content for this site. As it stands right now, this site just falls into same realm as 938928374928374 other blogs out there. "I played this many hands and made/lost this much money. Oh yeah, all poker players are idiot donkeys". That pretty much sums up 95% of the poker blogs out there. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy many of those blogs. They just don't have anything to really separate them from the rest.
While playing a bit today this hand gave me inspiration for one idea:
PokerStars 2/4 Hold'em (6 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx
Preflop: Hero is UTG with Qh, Qd.
Hero raises, 1 fold, CO calls, 3 folds.
Flop: (5.50 SB) 2d, Kh, Jc (2 players)
Hero bets, CO calls.
Turn: (3.75 BB) Kc (2 players)
Hero bets, CO calls.
River: (5.75 BB) 3h (2 players)
Hero bets, CO calls.
Final Pot: 7.75 BB
Results in white below:
Hero has Qh Qd (two pair, kings and queens).
CO has 5h 2h (two pair, kings and twos).
Outcome: Hero wins 7.75 BB.
As you can see, this guy really just donked it up on that hand. This sparked an idea. How about every so often doing an article called
The Inner-Mind of the Online Donkey
. The title could use some help, but the idea is there.The basic idea is to take a hand where you are a player at your table really just plain donked it up. Put yourself in the role of the donkey (assuming you weren't the donkey to begin with) and walk through the hand, sharing the donkey thoughts that flow through your mind and why you played the hand the way you did. This can get entertaining. Also, if you would like to contribute, feel free to email submissions to leonardw@nospam-gmail.com. Please remove the "nospam-" part.
Look for the first inner donkey article in a day or 2. I got some other ideas too. They will probably piss off 2+2ers and bloggers alike. Sometimes you'll have that.