Survivor: Donkey Poker Round 12 (DANK!)

Lessons learned from the Inaugural Dank.

1) Joe C plays great:

IAHawx985 raises 3X UTG at 25/50.
VJ reraises from MP to 400, Both have 3100 stacks.
All fold, IAHawx986 repops to 1000, Joe C flats in position.

Flop 772r. IAHawx985 bets half his stack, VJ jams, and a snapcall.
VJ's JJ spikes the turn vs. IAHawx985's QQ. Double up on a two outer.

I like you, VJ, but geez, the entire freaking table could have told you JJ was no goot.
For someone who acted like they had to win immunity to survive, that was pretty light.
Well, until the turn, anyway.

2) I spew easier than I thought:

I ran into two weird spots where I bet or raised the river really thin with two scut pairs, got shoved into, and figured there was no way I was good - and spewed off a lot of chips. In between I kept getting it in preflop on 80/20s and doubling up, before I boned VJ with this one...

Full Tilt Poker Game #29292215107: The Dank (226599650), Table 1 - 100/200 - No Limit
Hold'em - 23:29:42 ET - 2011/03/23
Seat 2: gpjacobs (2,850)
Seat 4: BrainMc (2,425)
Seat 5: neophyte17 (10,110)
Seat 6: Julius_Goat (11,070)
Seat 7: heffmike (5,260)
Seat 8: hoyazo (4,320)
Seat 9: veryjosie (5,700)
veryjosie: wow
Julius_Goat posts the small blind of 100
heffmike posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to heffmike [5s As]
veryjosie: gg brain
hoyazo folds
veryjosie raises to 600
Julius_Goat: brain is still in
gpjacobs folds
veryjosie: lol oh
BrainMc folds
neophyte17 folds
veryjosie: nevah mind
Julius_Goat calls 500
heffmike has 15 seconds left to act
heffmike calls 400
*** FLOP *** [9s 9c 6s]
Julius_Goat has 15 seconds left to act
Julius_Goat: but a samurai must always live with the knowledge that he is already dead
Julius_Goat checks
veryjosie: lol
veryjosie: a goat too
heffmike has 15 seconds left to act
BrainMc: are you calling me tom cruise
heffmike: I've worried about that for years'
heffmike checks
Julius_Goat: I am long dead
veryjosie bets 1,800
Julius_Goat has 15 seconds left to act
Julius_Goat: eaten by lambs and pecked by the dove
Julius_Goat folds
heffmike raises to 4,660, and is all in
veryjosie calls 2,860
heffmike shows [5s As]
veryjosie shows [8c 8s]
*** TURN *** [9s 9c 6s] [Th]
*** RIVER *** [9s 9c 6s Th] [4s]
heffmike shows a flush, Ace high
veryjosie shows two pair, Nines and Eights
heffmike wins the pot (11,120) with a flush, Ace high
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 11,120 | Rake 0
Board: [9s 9c 6s Th 4s]
Seat 2: gpjacobs didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: BrainMc didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: neophyte17 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: Julius_Goat (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 7: heffmike (big blind) showed [5s As] and won (11,120) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 8: hoyazo didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: veryjosie showed [8c 8s] and lost with two pair, Nines and Eights

Of course, I start on the downswing soon enough - I button raise/call off to Waffles' 10BB jam with 99, see his KK... and then watch a K9x flop. Whee.

Very dreary after that:
*I somehow make the final table:
*I pay off a 5BB shove from Turtle with A2c and don't get there v AKo. Shocking.
*I shove AQs over an open jam with K2s and lose to a rivered deuce.
*I end up jamming 6BB into Hoy's UTG open from the big blind with KQs and see AA. So boring and trivial.

8/26. So I final tabled, but I don't even think I did anything notable or interesting - other than make river raises for what I thought were for value - and then be jammed into and have to fold.

Note to myself - don't that in the future.

And Turtle loses a tight 3-2 vote to be bounced off the Island.
So credit to muchtim to leveraging the advantage Bayne pointed out and sticking around.
He's the only Donk to get deep. So I guess it worked out for him... :-)