Donkey Island starts Tonight!

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Survive Donkey Island 001
Full Tilt Poker
$1 + $1 Rebuy
February 13, 2011
9:30 PM EST
password: survive

Mookie/Dank
Full Tilt Poker
$10 + $1 NLHE
Wednesdays
10 PM EST
password: vegas1

These are the immunity idols!

Survive Donkey Island: Meet The Donkeys (And the Fish)

from the goat

All right, friends, we've got our Donkey Island contestants.
Remember, Donkey Island is a series of private poker tournaments that is open to everybody, and the sixteen contestants will simply be playing a prop bet as an overlay (Donkey Island will also be running over in The Dank). Feel free to join in! First one is in 2 weeks, and it's a rebuy!

Survive Donkey Island 001
Full Tilt Poker
$1 + $1 Rebuy
February 13, 2011
9:30 PM EST
password: survive

Team Donkey and Team Fish will be competing for the cash prize pool. The winner will take down literally dozens of dollars. The losers will be killed and eaten where they stand. Here are the Runners, and may God have mercy on their souls.

Team Fish

Team Motto: " Go big, or go small. Either way."

Edgie212
Al Can't Hang

Plays Poker Like: Somebody who doesn't get out much.
Survivor Identity: The happy codger.

Strategy for Survival: Display his value by regaling his team with stories about the way things used to be.

iaatg6296

Plays Poker Like: Phil Ivey crossed with a sack of painted rocks. Mainly the rocks.
Survivor Identity: The rat bastard.

Strategy for Survival: Win his team's trust by spearing fish, cooking them . . . little do those fools know that they are eating POISON FISH BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!! BWAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Hoyazo

Plays Poker Like: Um . . . it's Hoyazo, you idjit. He plays AWESOME.

Survivor Identity: The hot chick.

Strategy for Survival: Lasso tricks and seduction.

The Real Dawn Summers

Plays Poker Like: A Zac Efron fan after the 2nd wine cooler.

Survivor Identity: The silent assassin.

Strategy for Survival: Plans to use her Twitter account to get people to call in votes for her. Also, does not realize that this isn't American Idol.

Riggstad

Plays Poker Like: A combination between Fergie and Jesus.

Survivor Identity: The hot chick's friend.

Strategy for Survival: Hide in the sand.

Smboatdrinks

Plays Poker Like: The money doesn't matter. And like the chips don't matter. And like strategy doesn't matter.

Survivor Identity: Good-time Charlie

Strategy for Survival: KARATE CHOP!!!

VeryJosie

Plays Poker Like: Daffy Duck

Survivor Identity: Abrasive leader who Gets Things Done

Strategy for Survival: Won't get voted out, because she says so, that's why.

Xkm1245

Plays Poker Like: Richard III.

Survivor Identity: The Clown-baby.

Strategy for Survival: Doesn't plan to survive. Don't you see the signs? He came here to die, man. He came here to die.

Team Donkey

Team Motto: "Yes, we . . . can? I'm going to be honest with you, that doesn't sound right."

BrainMc

Plays Poker Like: He truly believes everything will go his way.

Survivor Identity: The Mastermind.

Strategy for Survival: Stay up every night planning.

Heffmike

Plays Poker Like: A pro. By which I mean a prostitute, of course.

Survivor Identity: The Hyper-Competitive Guy

Strategy for Survival: Win every single tournament, win the respect of all by laughing in their faces.

High On Poker

Plays Poker Like: Michael Jordan plays baseball.

Survivor Identity: The Drama Queen.

Strategy for Survival: First, you get the money. Then you get the power. Then you get the women.

Jamyhawk

Plays Poker Like: He's never played poker.

Survivor Identity: The Crazy-Like-A-Fox Hayseed

Strategy for Survival: Just find the winning team, keep your head down, and ride those coat-tails.

Julius_Goat

Plays Poker Like: Hmm, how to describe it. Well, you remember when you were a kid? You remember how awesome Christmas morning was? The exact opposite of that.

Survivor Identity: The First One Voted Out

Strategy for Survival: Abject begging.

Katitude

Plays Poker Like: Every week was Shark Week.

Survivor Identity: The Psychopath

Strategy for Survival: Well, first you need to get an alliance. Next, you have to make sure that you have a few other stringers on board. Then, when all your ducks are in a row, you start burying the Claymore mines and stringing up the piano wire. Once you have all the bodies in one place, it's time to dig the mass graves. I may have said too much.

Muhctim

Plays Poker Like: A ham sandwich.

Survivor Identity: The Wild Card

Strategy for Survival: Poodle. Poodle all the way.

Numb Bono

Plays Poker Like: A lost little lamb.

Survivor Identity: The Girl Next Door

Strategy for Survival: Snuggling, pictures of kitty cats.

Donkey Island is FULL

Our last 3 contestants are now in the game! Taking the final spots we have:
Muhctim
Jamyhawk
DawnSummers

I will be randomly splitting the players into 2 teams later today.
Check back for more information soon!

Player List! 3 SPOTS LEFT!

JUST 3 SPOTS LEFT!!!

Lots of people jumping on this! Woot!

Hoyazo
Julius Goat
Smboatdrinks
Katitude
Heffmike
Edgie212 (wow do i hope that is his myspace page)
Highonpoker
Riggstad
iaatg6296 (seriously? who still uses myspace?)
Numbbono
Xkm1245
BrainMc
VeryJosie


I will keep updating this list as people join. Once we get enough people I will split everyone into 2 teams.
Here is a small banner you can use to promote the game on your blog.

We're Back On Bitches!

From Julius Goat

About a year ago or so I was mulling over a prop I had going with Bayne on some season of Survivor or other, and I suddenly had an idea. An inevitable idea. A great idea? Maybe. Maybe not. I guess we're about to find out.

Survivor + Poker.

A poker tournament in which the runners are playing normal poker, but are also playing for a prize pool that would be won along the lines of the popular/awful reality granddaddy, Survivor.

So here's the tentative plan.

I'm hosting the Donkey Island tournament series for a while.

Donkey Island
Full Tilt Poker
NLHE (Probably) $1 + $1 Rebuy (Probably)
9:30 EST Sunday
Starting February 13

Some things to note:

1) This will be a typical poker tournament on the Private tournament tab, open to all. You don't have to play the Donkey Island competition to play the tournament; however, you obviously also won't be involved in the competition for the additional prize.

2) If you do want to play the Donkey Island competition, transfer $20 to BuddyDank on Full Tilt Poker (first letter of city "C"). The first 16 entries will be accepted. Subsequent entries will be returned but the people who sent them will get right of first refusal if we run it again. Entries will form the prize pool.

If you are a contestant, these will be the rules:

* You will be randomly divided by Buddy into Team Fish and Team Donkey.

* To easily distinguish yourselves as contestants, choose the FTP avatar that corresponds to your team during event play.

* Each Mookie/Dank (Wed. 10:00 PM) and each Donkey Island (Sunday 10:00 PM) will be an event of the prop bet.

* Team play. For the first six events, the contestant who runs the deepest in the event and his/her entire team is immune from elimination. The losing team must vote one of their members out of the competition. The person receiving the most votes will be out of play and out of contention for the prize. In the case of a tie, the loser of a heads-up match between the two potential eliminate-ees will be out of play. Stakes and poker variant for the heads-up match is up to the contestants; play chip matches are acceptable.

* Individual play. After the 6th elimination, the teams will be merged, and all "contestants" will be required to vote one person out of the competition. The contestant who runs the deepest in the event will be immune from votes. Same tiebreaker rules as before apply.

* Final event. When there are only 2 players left, the contestant who lasts longest in the final event will receive 40% of the prize pool.

* Prize vote. The 14 previously eliminated contestants will vote on which of the 2 players should receive the remaining 60% of the prize pool.

* How to vote. Votes must be in prior to the event for both teams. Votes can be sent to Buddy Dank via IM, email, or on-air at BDR. Once you send your vote, it is official and cannot be rescinded. Votes for an immune person will not be counted. Votes sent after the start of an event will not be counted. In the odd case that a person who receives 100% of the votes is immune, the eliminated party will be the person who has the most prior votes. Ties will be handled in the way already laid out.

* I don't want everybody to feel like they have to grind out every event; thus it is not necessary for "contestants" to play every event in order to be able to vote. However, you obviously will need to play an event to win the last-longer for that event.

* Smack talk and blog rants are highly encouraged, provided they are funny.

* Using IM and texts and other media to form alliances and plan backstabbing are highly encouraged.

* Deals to chop the prize pool after the fact to wrangle votes is forbidden. We can't enforce this, but come on. Don't be lame.

* There are probably contingencies and ambiguities with this thing that I haven't thought about. Buddy Dank is our lovely host, and will be making any judgments and rule changes as needed to navigate oddities as they arise. To avoid conflict of interests, Buddy won't be playing. No one man should have all that power.

And that's it.

Schedule of Events

Team Play

Event 1..........Donkey Island.......Feb. 13 (16 contestants)
Event 2 .........Mookie/Dank....... Feb. 16 (15 contestants)
Event 3 .........Donkey Island...... Feb. 20 (14 contestants)
Event 4 .........Mookie/Dank....... Feb. 23 (13 contestants)
Event 5 .........Donkey Island ......Feb. 27 (12 contestants)
Event 6 ........ Mookie/Dank....... March 2 (11 contestants)

Individual Play

Event 7 .........Donkey Island....... March 6 (10 contestants)
Event 8 .........Mookie/Dank........ March 9 (9 contestants)
Event 9 .........Donkey Island....... March 13 (8 contestants)
Event 10........Mookie/Dank........ March 16 (7 contestants)
Event 11 .......Donkey Island....... March 20 (6 contestants)
Event 12 .......Mookie/Dank........ March 23 (5 contestants)
Event 13 .......Donkey Island ...... March 27 (4 contestants)
Event 14 .......Mookie/Dank ........March 30 (3 contestants)

Final Event

Event 15 .......Donkey Island........ April 3 (2 contestants)

About The Game

We're still working out the details, so for now here's what we know:

Donkey Island is an online poker blogger series, utilizing reality game show elements along with the usual poker elements.

Sixteen main contestants will play the Survive Donkey Island elements and compete for the main prize (TBA). The Poker tournaments and additional prizes - as well as the ability to affect the game directly - will be available to all.

Events will be held every Wednesday (The Mookie) and Sunday (TBA).

After every event, one contestant will be voted out.

The next day, that contestant will be encouraged to write an hilarious flame post.

You can just play the poker tournaments, or, if you want to get in on the Survive Donkey Island fun, listen to Buddy Dank Radio!

If you want to be a contestant, you'll need to let us know that you are interested through a very simple "audition". We will be writing The Rules about how to audition very soon.

Keep checking back here for prize information!