It's been a choppy start to March. Until last weekend I'd never won or lost $100 in a cash-game session before (admittedly I play short sessions, and I'd had three results in the nineties). Then I had two 3-figure sessions in a matter of hours. First I dropped $113 in 65 hands of $3/$6 badugi (although I have the bankroll for those stakes I'm perhaps just outside my comfort zone), but I bounced back by making $137 in just 48 hands of $2/$4, greatly helped by some ultra-bizarro play in this hand. People do funny stuff when they have 32A don't they? I'm happy I never took my foot off the gas:
PokerStars Game #58660162672: Badugi Limit ($2/$4 USD) - 2011/03/04 17:09:38 ET
Table 'Castafiore XII' 8-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: lucaslogan ($71.50 in chips)
Seat 2: cafarte ($85 in chips)
Seat 3: MrSleet ($31.50 in chips)
Seat 4: xpokerplaya7 ($184.50 in chips)
Seat 5: hoppa731 ($133.50 in chips)
Seat 6: Whoop'n Ass ($58.50 in chips)
Seat 7: plutoman20 ($93 in chips)
Seat 8: Grekk ($109 in chips)
Grekk: posts small blind $1
lucaslogan: posts big blind $2
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to plutoman20 [6h 2h 2c 4d]
cafarte: raises $2 to $4
MrSleet: folds
xpokerplaya7: folds
hoppa731: folds
Whoop'n Ass: calls $4
plutoman20: calls $4
Grekk: raises $2 to $6
lucaslogan: folds
cafarte: calls $2
Whoop'n Ass: calls $2
plutoman20: calls $2
*** FIRST DRAW ***
Grekk: discards 2 cards
cafarte: discards 1 card
Whoop'n Ass: discards 1 card
plutoman20: discards 1 card [2h]
Dealt to plutoman20 [6h 2c 4d] [5s]
Grekk: bets $2
cafarte: calls $2
Whoop'n Ass: raises $2 to $4
plutoman20: raises $2 to $6
Grekk: raises $2 to $8
Betting is capped
cafarte: calls $6
Whoop'n Ass: calls $4
plutoman20: calls $2
*** SECOND DRAW ***
Grekk: discards 1 card
cafarte: discards 1 card
Whoop'n Ass: stands pat
plutoman20: stands pat on [6h 2c 4d 5s]
Grekk: bets $4
cafarte: folds
Whoop'n Ass: calls $4
plutoman20: raises $4 to $8
Grekk: raises $4 to $12
Whoop'n Ass: calls $8
plutoman20: raises $4 to $16
Betting is capped
Grekk: calls $4
Whoop'n Ass: calls $4
*** THIRD DRAW ***
Grekk: discards 1 card
Whoop'n Ass: stands pat
plutoman20: stands pat on [6h 2c 4d 5s]
Grekk: checks
Whoop'n Ass: checks
plutoman20: bets $4
Grekk: calls $4
Whoop'n Ass: calls $4
*** SHOW DOWN ***
plutoman20: shows [6h 5s 2c 4d] (Badugi: 6,5,4,2)
Grekk: mucks hand
Whoop'n Ass: mucks hand
plutoman20 collected $115 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $118 Rake $3
Seat 1: lucaslogan (big blind) folded before the Draw
Seat 2: cafarte folded after the 2nd Draw
Seat 3: MrSleet folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 4: xpokerplaya7 folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 5: hoppa731 folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Whoop'n Ass mucked [Td 7h 3c 9s]
Seat 7: plutoman20 (button) showed [6h 5s 2c 4d] and won ($115) with a Badugi: 6,5,4,2
Seat 8: Grekk (small blind) mucked [2s Qd 3d Ah]
There's one other badugi hand of note, from a different session, which I'd prefer to forget: I folded 843A in a big pot when it turned out my two opponents were going crazy with 10-5 and 10-3. I was trying to plug what I think thought was a leak of mine - hanging on too long with eights and nines - but 843A is hardly any old eight. If I start folding that kind of hand I'm plugging one leak but creating a much bigger one.
I had a dream run at triple draw last night, a game I love to hate. There was a monkey at my table. For once I ran well enough to capitalise (in fact I ran very well) and the monkey kept reloading. Later a very tight passive player joined which made things even better for me. I stayed up late to make the most of the situation. I won $74 in 193 hands of 50c/$1, wiping out all my previous losses in the game.
I'm hardly star-struck by big-name poker players, but I admit to certain feelings of awe today when Jonathan Duhamel, winner of last year's WSOP, joined a $1/$2 badugi table. What Mr Nine Million was doing playing badugi at those stakes I had no idea, but it was indeed him. I only got involved in one hand with him, when he patted from the get-go and I triple-bricked my 642. We were heads-up by the end and I wanted to call him ("I caught a world champion's bluff!") but figured he really didn't need my $2. That must be the first time I've played a world champion at anything - it happened in a most unexpected way today.
Update:
I just had two goes at satelliting (which I don't think is a real word) into tomorrow's MiniFTOPS triple draw. The satellite fields were small (20 or 30) and only the winner gained a place, with the next three places getting small cash payouts, so to qualify you had to negotiate the short-handed stuff that I have very little clue about. I came ninth on my first attempt. The second time I ran pretty hot. We got down to three, i.e. clueless territory, but I still thought I was the best player. I had one of my opponents all in and was about to go heads-up with a chip lead, but he outdrew my number seven on the river. A little while later he rivered number four to beat my number five, and I didn't last much longer. Unsurprisingly he got the ticket.
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