And the Poon of the Day is...

Congratulations to "Fábão," who put his name into Poon of the Day contention early on in our 4 buck 180 and never looked back. No poon came close to matching Fábão. This poon would qualify for poon of the month, if we had such an award.

Exhibit A: Fábão contributes to costing me a triple up. I get dealt pocket 10s in the big blind. Fab limps in for 50 after the first three players fold. A player with a lame ID named "deadmunnE" then raises 3x to 150. After a call, I make the call from the big blind, and action back to our P.O.T.D. He then reraises all-in, for 1060 total. deadmunnE then reraises all in himself. I think to myself after a raise, a shove, and another all in, my 10s have to be trailing. I folded and what do i see? Fábão's KQ offsuit vs munnE's 66. Bunch of poons. Sure enough, the board runs out and I would have rivered a straight flush. You cant make this crap up.

While donkey deadmunnE put himself in the POTD race by trying to back up his idiotic move, a series of other plays by Fábão won him this prestigious award.

This play needs no explanation, lamentation, or any other -ation. Just read it and shake your head.

PokerStars Game #19248074450: Tournament #99182065, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2008/07/31 - 13:23:39 (ET)Table '99182065 9' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Hurt50 (1170 in chips)
Seat 2: zrotkiv (2450 in chips)
Seat 3: Krausi81 (3120 in chips) out of hand (moved from another table into small blind)
Seat 4: Fábão (2345 in chips)
Seat 5: Camelhump13 (1278 in chips)
Seat 6: deadmunnE (780 in chips)
Seat 7: Shakawkaw29 (1085 in chips)
Seat 8: reg83000 (3480 in chips)
Seat 9: _the_panic_ (2705 in chips)
Fábão: posts small blind 50
Camelhump13: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to _the_panic_ [Td Ah]
deadmunnE: folds
Shakawkaw29: calls 100
reg83000: folds
_the_panic_: calls 100
Hurt50: raises 600 to 700
zrotkiv: folds
Fábão: calls 650
Camelhump13: folds
Shakawkaw29: raises 385 to 1085 and is all-in
_the_panic_: folds
Hurt50: calls 385
Fábão: calls 385
*** FLOP *** [4h Qs 2s]
Fábão: bets 1260 and is all-in
Hurt50: calls 85 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1175) returned to Fábão
*** TURN *** [4h Qs 2s] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [4h Qs 2s 9c] [As]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Fábão: shows [6s Js] (a flush, Ace high)
Hurt50: shows [Jc Jd] (a pair of Jacks)
Fábão collected 170 from side pot
Shakawkaw29: shows [3h 3s] (a pair of Threes)
Fábão collected 3455 from main pot

Obviously, 6J suited is worth risking over a third of your stack preflop vs two other opponents. Why does PS reward morons?

After limp-reraising with QK offsuit and calling an all in with 6J suited, what does Fábão do with a made hand? Take a look. (No preflop action)

PokerStars Game #19248227212: Tournament #99182065, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2008/07/31 - 13:30:50 (ET)Table '99182065 9' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: defmno (2725 in chips)
Seat 2: zrotkiv (3560 in chips)
Seat 3: Krausi81 (3020 in chips)
Seat 4: Fábão (4040 in chips)
Seat 5: Camelhump13 (878 in chips)
Seat 7: elsamo (3845 in chips)
Seat 8: reg83000 (4510 in chips)
Seat 9: _the_panic_ (2205 in chips)
Krausi81: posts small blind 50
Fábão: posts big blind 100
*** FLOP *** [2s 3s 5h]
Fábão: checks
elsamo: checks
*** TURN *** [2s 3s 5h] [Kc]
Fábão: checks
elsamo: bets 200
Fábão: calls 200
*** RIVER *** [2s 3s 5h Kc] [6c]
Fábão: checks
elsamo: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Fábão: shows [2d 4h] (a straight, Deuce to Six)
elsamo: mucks hand
Fábão collected 650 from pot

He checks the best hand, of course. You could argue he was going to check raise, but why take the chance? His opponent would have called with a pair of K anyway. Talk about having it a$$ backwards. Makes you really wonder where these people get their money from and why they use it on poker.

Fábão wins a nice cup of shut the f**k up for his efforts today.

Dishonorable mention goes to deadmunnE, who made a donkey play with those 6s and tried to back it up. This argument dragged on, earning him long consideration for the award. Oh, and he got ousted a few hands after that. Can't forget that.

Enjoy the evening.