The Worst Winner

" Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance "  ~ The military, apparently.  I have been planning and preparing for this day for weeks, months even. Since becoming a ardent badugi player I knew today would be a big day before it was even announced. I researched previous WCOOPs, I played the WCOOP Bootcamp warm up series, I tagged literally every player in every badugi tournament I played, all to enable the best possible chance at a deep run in one of the few big money badugi tournaments of the year. " The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men g ang aft agley, a n' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, f or promis'd joy! "   ~ Rabbie Burns Despite all my planning and preparation, the fates had other ideas. Having been unsuccessful in the pursuit of a Power Pass package, I was going to have to play the satellites which take place on the day of the WCOOP events and, if following the Bootcamp format, would be 1/10th of the event buy...

Yes, that's right, the biggest online poker event of the year is here, the World Championship Of Online Badugi (WCOOB)! Pokerstars have announced the schedule for this year's greatest tournament series and it looks like this: My intention, or rather hope, is to play all the events. The $22 low is a given, b uying directly into the $109 medium event is just throwing bankroll management out the window, however, as it's such a special event I will make an exception if I can't satellite in. And, given that most of my poker playing currently revolves around playing $4.40 or less badugi tournaments, I should be able to carry on should it all go horribly wrong. The trouble lies with the two bigger events, the $530 high and the $1050k championship event. I'm not begrudging the existence of these two events but looking at the guarantees and buy-ins, isn't it just going to be the same 40 players in both?  Anyways, I have been trying in vain to win a Power Pass package of ...