Let me share the beat put on me by the king of all donkeys. Even though it wasn't Dylan, when you hear the play, you'll understand why I think that maybe he was trained by Dylan.
It's the early rounds of a deepstack poker tourney. We're nine handed, and everyone has over 120 BBs. The play has been extremely conservative. The standard raise of 3 BBs is enough to take down more than half the pots before the flop, and no one is 3 betting..
Under the gun I pick up aces and make a standard raise. It folds around to king donkey. He raises the minimum, so I 3 bet 30 BBs. He instantly calls. The flop comes Q, 9, 3, rainbow. I bet about half the pot. He snap calls, again. The turn is a king of spades, putting two spades on board--I have the ace of diamonds and the ace of hearts. I go all in, with just slightly more chips than me, and after going into the tank for about 10 minutes. Eventually he exclaims, "I can't imagine laying this one down." and calls. You'll never guess what he turns over? Two fours. I almost fell out of my chair. I was half expecting the flush draw, but even if I was given 10 guesses I would have never put him on fours. Of course, this is a bad beat story, so you know how it ends... Of course, the river was a four, crushing my hopes of winning the tourney.
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