(Too) good (to be true) news

I'm a year older than I was the last time I posted on this blog. In that time Google have arsed around with their Blogger settings. Supposedly Blogger is now incompatible with my browser (and I can see that because all my icons are semi-invisible). Now for the good news: Poker Stars might be buying out Full Tilt, so maybe, just maybe, I'll get my $1400-odd back (there's a mega thread on 2+2 about it all, but good luck wading through all the crap). And there's more: my Stars bankroll has broken through $1400, then $1500, and now $1600. All in the space of a few days. I'm now sitting at $1614. What else? Well the number of followers on my blog has doubled (!), the genius Schweig on Deuces Cracked has invented a four-card big-bet poker game (at the same time I've been working on a poker game involving words), and just in the last few minutes this badugi hand came up. It's the ultimate blocking hand, six times less likely than the pat nuts. Four-way I didn't fancy my chances but had to try it:

PokerStars Hand #79407173406:  Badugi Limit ($0.50/$1.00 USD) - 2012/04/25 0:38:07 ET

Table 'Boda III' 8-max Seat #2 is the button

Seat 1: LxJoob ($27.03 in chips)

Seat 2: mamuka1976 ($12.99 in chips)

Seat 3: plutoman20 ($30.42 in chips)

Seat 5: sabale010 ($8.09 in chips)

Seat 6: iveyphil0 ($52.86 in chips)

Seat 8: Yougie_AK9 ($7.93 in chips)

plutoman20: posts small blind $0.25

sabale010: posts big blind $0.50

*** DEALING HANDS ***

Dealt to plutoman20 [2h 4h 3h Ah]

iveyphil0: folds

Yougie_AK9: calls $0.50

LxJoob: calls $0.50

mamuka1976: folds

plutoman20: raises $0.50 to $1

sabale010: calls $0.50

Yougie_AK9: calls $0.50

LxJoob: calls $0.50

*** FIRST DRAW ***

plutoman20: stands pat on [2h 4h 3h Ah]

sabale010: discards 2 cards

Yougie_AK9: discards 2 cards

LxJoob: discards 1 card

plutoman20: bets $0.50

sabale010: folds

Yougie_AK9: folds

LxJoob: calls $0.50

*** SECOND DRAW ***

plutoman20: stands pat on [2h 4h 3h Ah]

LxJoob: discards 1 card

plutoman20: bets $1

LxJoob: calls $1

*** THIRD DRAW ***

plutoman20: stands pat on [2h 4h 3h Ah]

LxJoob: discards 1 card

plutoman20: bets $1

LxJoob: folds

Uncalled bet ($1) returned to plutoman20

plutoman20 collected $6.68 from pot

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot $7 | Rake $0.32

Seat 1: LxJoob folded after the 3rd Draw

Seat 2: mamuka1976 (button) folded before the Draw (didn't bet)

Seat 3: plutoman20 (small blind) collected ($6.68)

Seat 5: sabale010 (big blind) folded after the 1st Draw

Seat 6: iveyphil0 folded before the Draw (didn't bet)

Seat 8: Yougie_AK9 folded after the 1st Draw

I'll post some hands from $2/$4 badugi and $1/$2 triple draw in the next few days.