Yes Sir, I Can Badugi
My foray into Badugi continues. For a long time I thought I was going to have to satisfy myself with being the fourth best badugi player after finishing fourth or thereabouts time after time in 80-100 fields. Yet, I persisted. Then it was runnerup again and again. On my first attempt at headsup badugi, I was crushed. With little idea of what adjustments to make my opponent pummelled me with aggression and by the time I decided to make a stand, it was too late. My second heads-up battle was also short-lived but while I didn't win, I think I was just unlucky to be outdrawn a few times, so I left more hopeful. My third heads-up experience was a 40 minute epic back and forth battle, alas, I came up short again. But I persevered and at long last won the nightly badugi tournament outright! I have discovered another couple of badugi tournaments on Pokerstars but they are still maxing out at a $4.40 buyin. Until... Pokerstars announced a WCOOP warm up series called...