Having won a handful of modest pots early, the imitation-Ungar reverted to his usual pattern of whittling his stack down to a mere $12 [vs. his initial $35 buy-in] and then dramatically rebuilding his stack with some fortuitous card-catching (pocket Q-Qs & A-As among them). pseudoStuie's severe ups & downs left several at the table with acute cases of whiplash... the anti-Ungar is nothing if not chaotic & frenzied.
Nearing 10:00pm, Stuie got into a huge pot: an all-in showdown with the host, John.
At the turn, Stuie ~ holding As-9s ~ was four to the nut flush [plus a gut shot stratight draw and/or looking for any of the remaining A's] on a board of Jh-5s-6s-7c, with John top pair or trips [I forget which... in the end, it doesn't matter, as you'll see elsewhere below]...
At this point, the pot was fairly massive, maybe $80, with Stuie holding only $18.25 left in his stack.
The river came out 8d, which the pseudoDoofus failed to recognize as completing his straight... presumably because he was so focused on hitting the nut flush. Let me repeat, as this is important: at this point, pseudoStuie believed all he had was a busted flush draw and a high card A.
John led out with $18; after the typically excessively long & tedious decision time, Stuie went all-in and John called the remaining 25 cents.
For reasons that remain unknown and probably unknowable, instead of flipping their cards up, Stuie held onto his hand and waited for John to show. When he saw John's top pair (or trips, whatever), pseudoStuie dumped his hand into the muck ~ albeit face up ~ and announced that John had won. John started raking the chip pile and Porter [one of the other Ruby Lane regulars] started raking the mucked card pile, and pseudoStuie prepared to head home in shame (again).
Raymer, being the only observant one at the table, asked who had tossed the 9s into the muck pile... because it seemed to have completed a straight. Puzzled, the pseudoOne claimed the 9, and only then realized he had mucked the winning hand.
A long debate ensued:
- Casino rules say that if your hand hits the muck, it's gone, and Stuie loses/John wins.
- Others pointed out that both hands should have been flipped over after the all-in was called, which presumably would have led someone to recognize that Stuie's improbrable runner-runner gut shot straight had hit & won.
How very un-Ungar-like!
Thereafter, pseudoStuie actually played well and built his stack to $160... thanks again to fortuitous card-catching against Cobb, a young buck who was gunning for Stuie all night [but who has yet to digest the obvious b*s signals that Stuie throws off]. By the end of his night, Stuie was once again sucking all the oxygen out the room, claiming undeserved greatness & believing he had captured 1st place with his $160 stack (+$125 net).
Never mind the fact that Stuie did not, in fact, finish in 1st place: Raymer played his usual steady power game, and left at the end of the night with $202 in his pocket (on an original $42 buy-in = +$160 net)... having single-handedly taken out 4 of the other players himself:
[Note: Only Raymer ($202), Stuie ($160 or so), John (roughly $140) and Landon ($20) finished the night with any money at all... with Raymer taking out 4 players, and only 4 players being in the money at all, that means Stuie took out one and only one of the other seats on his own.]
Never mind the fact Stuie's winnings were largely attributable to card-catching & opponent-idiocy, rather than Ungar-like skills:
But, how do you delude yourself into believing you are the avatar of Stu Ungar when you shouldn't even be at the table anymore because you mucked a winning hand on an all-in showdown?
Stuie's oxygen-sucking delusion is just getting truly pathetic...
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