Mookie and the Cap'n, and MATH Options

Another Wednesday, another Mookday. Why the Mookie excites me so much every week, I will never know. But, tonight I have a new plan that I'm sure is going to get me back to my second straight Mookie final table:

I'm going to get fucking hammered. And for once I don't mean with 72 offsuit.

Actually, Hammer Wife's father is in town for the week, and she and he and her brother are going out to foncay dinner in the city, while I will be home on babysitting duty for the evening. And while that may sound like a lot of work to get done whilst drinking up and playing some online poker, the Hammer Girls go to sleep relatively early in the evening these days. Thus, come 8pm ET, I should be home and home alone, with nothing to do but hit the new bottle of Captain Morgan sitting in my freezer and some good ole' fashioned Coke Zero™. And fire up the laptop and hit the virtual felt.

Virtual felt. The most trite, overused phrase on this here blog. Enjoy it. Revel in it. I certainly do.

So today I'm thinking, what are some fun drinking games a boy can play all by himself while playing online poker? I will need to have at least 7 or 8 drinks in me by the time the Mookie starts at 10pm ET (password as always is "vegas1"), which will give me about two hours to play with, and about a drink every 15 minutes in there. And I feel like some kind of structure, some kind of game, to play to determine exactly when I drink. So how do I get that done tonight while I play poker? Five ideas I'm kicking around this morning:

1. Drink every time I win a race. This is a fun idea, and in theory it should have me downing a drink every 15 minutes or so. Only problem here is my historical 20-25% win rate with races. This one alone might not get me drunk enough by Mookie time.

2. Drink every time I am dealt a premium starting hand. Another fun idea, but suffers from the same problem as option #1 above. At that rate I likely won't be drunk until sometime in the Jeb Bush administration.

3. Drink every time I suck out on someone. Same problem. Now we might not be talking until Jeb Bush's kid's administration.

4. Drink every time I am dealt two face cards. This isn't bad, as this definitely should be happening around once every 15 minutes or so, especially if I'm firing up three or four tables at once like I like to do. But is getting dealt any two crappy face cards really worthy of a drink like that?

5. What about drinking every time I make a pair or better on the flop at any table? See, this is the kind of creative thinking I'm looking for today. I really need something that will happen often enough for me to actually be able to get good n drunk over a couple of hours, and a pair on the flop while multitabling ought to get me there. But I just can't help but think there is some more fun, more creative system out there that will get me drizzy in time and yet really make my evening alone more enjoyable for me before the Mookie starts up -- I was never much for the creative stuff so for the life of me I can't think of it.

Btw thanks to everyone for your great suggestions about what to do for the last two MATH tournaments in the BBTwo. I thought almost all of them were great ideas. I've already spoken to full tilt about one of our last two BBTwo Hoy tournaments being a heads-up tournament, so you can expect that to be coming over the next week or two for sure. I love that idea, and the good thing about it is, once again it is still holdem which is important to me as I don't really plan to get away from the holdem games in the middle of the challenge since many of the participants are not into those other games, and since the Aussie Millions ToC as well as the actual Aussie Millions grand prize itself are both themselves holdem tournaments. But heads-up holdem for a ToC seat was something I almost tried to fit in during November, and you can definitely expect to see that coming in one of the next two MATH tournaments. I am leaning towards that being the final MATH of the challenge, because there just seems to be something poetic about winning one's way in at the last chance in a MATH via a heads-up tournament, but I suppose that is not set in stone yet.

But it's this coming week's Hoy that I really consider the wildcard as of now. I had previously kicked around the idea of a knockout tournament, but does that really matter all that much to people? I mean, I think in a large mtt the knockout idea makes more sense, because by the time you make the final few players, you could literally have knocked out 30 or 40 players on your way there, actually amassing a decent chunk-a-change from all your knockout bounties. But, in a 70-person tournament or so, does $4 a pop for knockouts really make that much of a difference to anyone? I mean, I don't mean to be snobby about anyone's bankroll, as even my own roll can always use a few extra bucks or my $26 buyin back or whatever. But at $26 buyin, we're probably looking at a $4 knockout bounty and $20 to the prize pool for every player, and with, say, 70 players in the tournament, the most anyone can reasonably expect to be winning in bounties is what? $15, $20? Again, not that that is nothing because it's certainly worthwhile to add to any of our full tilt accounts, but I'm not really sure I see the value there in removing that money from the prize pool when we're dealing with such relatively small amounts in a $26 blonkament as opposed to a $26 multi-table tournament where the number of knockouts can really get up there for the players who last until the end.

What about one of these 6-max limit holdem tournaments? Now I know that limit and no-limit are in many ways very different games, but it's still holdem and I know some of you out there who play the BBTwo events from time to time are actually more limit specialists than no-limit specialists? And the 6-max aspect definitely makes limit holdem more interesting, so even a no-limit donk like me can get into the limit game as long as it's a tournament with escalating blinds, and as long as it's 6-max. What do you guys think of that?

OK please let me know your thoughts on the above, in addition to some drinking games I can run from 8-10pm ET tonight while I prepare for the Mook. Also, if anyone is up for a $55 turbo PLO heads-up sng like they have on full tilt during that time, hit me up on the girly chat. I have been utterly crushing those things lately. Just about my only loss was last night when I lost with the flopped nut flush to the rivered straight flush. That's right, you read that right. In heads-up play. Gotta love it!

See you tonight at 10pm ET for Le Mookie, hammered style!