WPT Foxwoods

Boy, what a rolla coasta of a show that was and holy shit!! Nick Schulman, only 21 years old, has become the youngest WPT Champion and is $2.1 million richer!! Well, maybe not all the $2.1 as he said he'd give a good chunk to his parents. What a guy, if I'd came through in Reno, I would have definitely given my father a good chunk of it.

Back to poker. A pretty scary table of poker hall of famer Lyle Berman and FT superstars Bill Gazes and "The Nicest Guy in Poker" and 2005 WSOP Player of the year Allen Cunningham. We all know these guys can play so now I'll move on to the donk of the show (seams like there is one lucky son of a bitch in all these final tables this season.

Now you've heard me rant on donkey Michael Simon, who somehow won the WPT World Poker Challenge. You will all see his donk powers combine when the show airs this summer. I thought he was the 2nd donkiest player ever to win a prestigious WPT Event (the worst being Danny Nguyen hands down!!) Well, the show tonight had somebody that could have topped Simon. The MIS ("move in specialist" according to "Kid Poker") Tony Licastro aka the all-in donk you normally see at an online freeroll over over 1000 people. We've have all heard of "Tony The Tiger" and now we've been introduced to "Tony The Donkey!!" Somebody put him on the cover of the new cereal "Donkey Flakes: The Breakfast of an Ass." This guys was unbelievably bad and definitely reminded me of playing a $50 freeroll vs. 1000+ players. Whenever he didn't raise all in, he got outplayed like he was Rick James' woman!!

Somehow, the donk powers have been in strong forces as Licardo or "Li-lardo" made it to the top 3 when this pretty hand came up. Bill Gazes on the button raises w/the weapons of mass destruction A-A. Our hero for the show, Nick Shulman, figures Gazes has been on a rush and can't still be so he pops it back up w/8-3!! I love this guy!! Then, the donk powers unite as Tony goes all-in IMMEDIATELY w/an unspectacular K-10o after 2 raises!! I know he was either folding or going all in 95% of the hands but WTF!! King high after 2 raises!! Of courses Gazes calls and gets rewarded by hitting 3 aces only after Tony flopped a straight with his donk powers. Bill is now crippled.

After Bill's exit, he tells Nick to "take his time," which I think is a reason why Nick holds off King Fish Tony. Remember Josh Schlein's (bad) putting over 2 million in w/3-3? Well, Nick had a similar situation. Nick had played pretty flawlessly catching cards at rushes and making good bluffs and this play HU was probably the biggest. With the blinds (40 and 80K I believe) being so minute compared to their stacks of 2.5 and 5.1 million or so, "El Buro" (donkey in Spanish if I remember right) raises it all in w/QJo and Schulman has a pair of 4s. He takes a good amount of time before making the good fold IMO. Nick gets rewarded later by making a big hand of a flush to Licardo or "Li-Lardo's" 2 pair and the flush holds up making Nick the King!! Maybe us college students just turning 21 (or 22) like me should invest our savings into poker afterall... I mean look at all the young guns that appear to keep taking these events down...