KO Tournies=Donkfests?

The $3.30 Knockout tournies on full tilt seem to be like freerolls but with a little better players. Seems like a very large amount of donks play these tournaments.
2 Examples:

Example 1: First Hand of a 90 Player $3.30 Knockout Tourney (Turo)

full tilt poker Game #4380378162: $3 + $0.30 KO Sit & Go (33221940), Table 6 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:52:03 ET - 2007/12/03
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to royalburrito24 [2d 8c]
guintz has 15 seconds left to act
guintz raises to 1806X Raise UTG??
royalburrito24 folds
JmoCox folds
btyphoidmary folds
ffries200 raises to 3,000, and is all in Freeroll example
KingofMD folds
R Tomlinson Jr has 15 seconds left to act
R Tomlinson Jr has requested TIME
R Tomlinson Jr calls 3,000, and is all in
softbllplr folds
aceemjack1 calls 2,970, and is all in
guintz folds
ffries200 shows [Jh Td]
R Tomlinson Jr shows [Qc Qs]
aceemjack1 shows [Ts Tc]
*** FLOP *** [4c 7d 8d]
*** TURN *** [4c 7d 8d] [Th]
*** RIVER *** [4c 7d 8d Th] [3s]
ffries200 shows a pair of Tens
R Tomlinson Jr shows a pair of Queens
aceemjack1 shows three of a kind, Tens
aceemjack1 wins the pot (9,195) with three of a kind, Tens
R Tomlinson Jr stands up
ffries200 stands up

Example 2: 4th Hand of the same tournament:

Full Tilt poker game #4380402514: $3 + $0.30 KO Sit & Go (33221940), Table 6 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:54:47 ET - 2007/12/03
Seat 1: softbllplr (3,150)
Seat 2: aceemjack1 (9,180)
Seat 3: guintz (2,730)
Seat 4: royalburrito24 (3,060)
Seat 5: JmoCox (3,000)
Seat 6: btyphoidmary (2,970)
Seat 7: menzel888 (3,000)
Seat 8: KingofMD (2,910)
royalburrito24 posts the small blind of 15
JmoCox posts the big blind of 30
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to royalburrito24 [As 7c]
btyphoidmary has 15 seconds left to act
btyphoidmary calls 30
menzel888 raises to 135
KingofMD calls 135
softbllplr folds
aceemjack1 folds
guintz folds
royalburrito24 folds
JmoCox folds
btyphoidmary has 15 seconds left to act
btyphoidmary calls 105
*** FLOP *** [Qh 3d Qc]
btyphoidmary checks
menzel888 bets 2,865, and is all in 450 in the pot
KingofMD has 15 seconds left to act
KingofMD folds
btyphoidmary calls 2,835, and is all in
menzel888 shows [Kc Tc] wtf is he thinking?
btyphoidmary shows [Qd 7d]
Uncalled bet of 30 returned to menzel888
*** TURN *** [Qh 3d Qc] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [Qh 3d Qc Qs] [4c]
menzel888 shows three of a kind, Queens
btyphoidmary shows four of a kind, Queens
btyphoidmary wins the pot (6,120) with four of a kind, Queens

Example 3: 20th Hand or so

Full Tilt Poker Game #4380552787: $3 + $0.30 KO Sit & Go (33221940), Table 6 - 40/80 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:12:10 ET - 2007/12/03
Seat 1: softbllplr (6,200)
Seat 2: aceemjack1 (7,761)
Seat 3: elzazu (4,285)
Seat 4: royalburrito24 (5,500)
Seat 5: JmoCox (2,855)
Seat 6: btyphoidmary (3,010)
Seat 7: paaaaags (10,608)
Seat 8: caprice30 (2,280)
Seat 9: TXBassFishing (1,683)
btyphoidmary posts the small blind of 40
paaaaags posts the big blind of 80
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to royalburrito24 [3c 7s]
caprice30 calls 80
TXBassFishing calls 80
softbllplr folds
aceemjack1 raises to 7,761, and is all in WTF?
royalburrito24 folds
JmoCox folds
btyphoidmary folds
paaaaags folds
caprice30 folds
TXBassFishing folds
Uncalled bet of 7,681 returned to aceemjack1
aceemjack1 mucks
aceemjack1 wins the pot (360)
caprice30 stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 360 | Rake 0
Seat 1: softbllplr didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: aceemjack1 collected (360), mucked
Seat 3: elzazu didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: royalburrito24 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: JmoCox (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: btyphoidmary (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: paaaaags (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: caprice30 folded before the Flop
Seat 9: TXBassFishing folded before the Flop

I'm playing one right now and AQ won a 5 way all in.

vanquish said:

I'm playing one right now and AQ won a 5 way all in.

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the pre flop raises are enormous

got lucky winning a couple coinflips with pocket jacks to move into the leaderboard

ive picked up 2 KOs already

sgh KK loses to 88 who openpushes 567 flop

vanquish said:

sgh KK loses to 88 who openpushes 567 flop

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that stinks

on the brighter side of CC players,
I finished 4th for $24 and i think $2.50 worth of knock outs

i guess these donks helped me out with my bankroll

coulda won the tourney easy but small blind flat pushes on me and i call with JJ, he turns KK....i was PISSED

then i donked my chips away on the table calling station

I've played in quite a few of these and I think they're actually considerably worse than freerolls. People will risk their tournament life as a 4 to 1 dog just in hopes of picking up 50c - it's hilarious but makes me cry inside a little..

god i go out like 24th cuz guy slowrolls me in BB

jaketrevvor said:

I think they're actually considerably worse than freerolls.

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NOTHING! I REPEAT: NOTHING! IS WORSE THAN FREEROLLS


ahem. excuse me.

pappasqueaks said:

donkeys think there getting better money by knocking ppl no matter wat hand they and in the long road they will be flat broke in no time

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yea no kidding


from the examples above, you can see its like freerolls, open pushing 100X bb stacks with J10os and crap like that

glad i made money off of them

As jake said earlier, these KO things means that you have next to no chance that your opponent will fold beacuse they want your massive bounty. I think the donk factor comes from the 'extra money OMG' as a pose to freerolls where its 'no buy-in, but i can win real money OMG!'

correction to title:

tournies=donkfests

combuboom said:

correction to title:

tournies=donkfests

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tournies=donkfests

knockout tournies=sub-human poker player fests.