Saturday, November 19, 2011

Double play

I've just had my first ever heads-up-free tournament win. I don't consider heads-up play to be my forte, so winning it in this fashion is like a golfer who's a bit shaky on the greens holing a seven-iron. To be honest my heads-up play has improved, and in fact I've now won the last four tournaments I've cashed in. One of those was my first ever triple draw win. This was the final hand of tonight's tournament:

PokerStars Game #70783401542: Tournament #467663713, $2.00+$0.20 USD Badugi Limit - Level XII (800/1600) - 2011/11/19 5:51:00 ET
Table '467663713 3' 8-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 2: plutoman20 (21820 in chips)
Seat 5: joedlo78 (6300 in chips)
Seat 7: BigJ117 (1880 in chips)
plutoman20: posts small blind 400
joedlo78: posts big blind 800
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to plutoman20 [Js 3d Ah 5d]
BigJ117: raises 800 to 1600
plutoman20: calls 1200
joedlo78: calls 800
*** FIRST DRAW ***
plutoman20: discards 2 cards [Js 5d]
Dealt to plutoman20 [3d Ah] [7c Qh]
joedlo78: discards 1 card
BigJ117: stands pat
plutoman20: checks
joedlo78: checks
BigJ117: bets 280 and is all-in
plutoman20: calls 280
joedlo78: calls 280
*** SECOND DRAW ***
plutoman20: discards 1 card [Qh]
Dealt to plutoman20 [3d Ah 7c] [5s]
joedlo78: stands pat
BigJ117: stands pat
plutoman20: checks
joedlo78: bets 1600
plutoman20: raises 1600 to 3200
joedlo78: raises 1220 to 4420 and is all-in
plutoman20: calls 1220
*** THIRD DRAW ***
plutoman20: stands pat on [3d Ah 7c 5s]
joedlo78: stands pat
BigJ117: stands pat
*** SHOW DOWN ***
plutoman20: shows [7c 3d Ah 5s] (Badugi: 7,5,3,A)
joedlo78: shows [9s 5h 7d 8c] (Badugi: 9,8,7,5)
plutoman20 collected 8840 from side pot
BigJ117: shows [Tc Jh Qd 3s] (Badugi: Q,J,T,3)
plutoman20 collected 5640 from main pot
joedlo78 finished the tournament in 2nd place and received $12.00.
BigJ117 finished the tournament in 3rd place and received $8.00.
plutoman20 wins the tournament and receives $20.00 - congratulations!
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 14480 Main pot 5640. Side pot 8840. Rake 0
Seat 2: plutoman20 (small blind) showed [7c 3d Ah 5s] and won (14480) with a Badugi: 7,5,3,A
Seat 5: joedlo78 (big blind) showed [9s 5h 7d 8c] and lost with a Badugi: 9,8,7,5
Seat 7: BigJ117 (button) showed [Tc Jh Qd 3s] and lost with a Badugi: Q,J,T,3

Update: after a good badugi session, my bankroll now stands at $907 which is a new high since I last cashed out (which was my whole cash balance, leaving just thirty-odd bucks of tournament money).

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