The Worst Winner

I've realised that I have now been playing poker for 20 years!  How do you go about recapping twenty years of poker? Well, let's start with some cold hard facts:  Wins vs Losses: The blue line is cold harsh money spent on poker versus money back into my bank account. Orange line includes the less tangible value of live packages won. The graph paints a pretty accurate picture of my poker "career"; after a few losing years, I started studying, got to grips with the game and have been in profit ever since. After those initial losing years, I was very proud to become a winning player. Year after year, it was a huge source of pride to know I was beating the game but as time moved on, I became frustrated. Was I really beating the game? It didn't feel like it. The angle on that blue line is dissapointmentingly shallow. Introducing bankroll management helped transform me from a losing player to a winning one but I have felt trapped at the  lower stakes. I have tried takin...

Unlike last year, I didn't have any grand plans for this year's World Championship Of Online Poker Badugi (WCOOB). I've had a series of health issues this year, which ultimately don't appear to be too serious but, perhaps then more so mentality than physically, I've just been trying to survive 2025. With that said, this year's WCOOB boasts double the days of badugi, with three buyin levels of limit badugi events on the 9th and pot limit events on the 30th. Sky's The Limit The limit event buyins were $22, $109 and $1050, and I should have played the $22 but as ever my ambition exceeds my bankroll so I signed up for a satellite to the $109.  Just the TWO WCOOP champions and one SCOOP winner to contend with. Despite the COOP badge ridden tables, I fared well. I played and I ran well, all the way to the final table. The bubble was a bit cagey, as you'd expect but I emerged victorious! The momentum did not carry through to the $109 event itself though. It su...