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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";…
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…
The newest stop on the Irish Poker Tour is... Glasgow? Perhaps my geography isn't as good as it once was. Or perhaps they've just taken a leaf out of the EPT's book and added a glamorous overseas locale to the tour. Either way, I'm here for it. With a week of tournaments to choose from, me and some friends settled on Friday for a big day of poker, with the option to carry on into the weekend…
Oh my sweet valentine Do you think you'll have the time To spend an evening with me? And I can tell by your glances You think that there are chances You will be appeasing me … soon afterwards we drop onto our comfy little couch And have a drink or two. And then I go and spoil it all By playing something stupid like, badugi I can see it in your eyes That you despise the same old cries You heard the…
" 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…
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…
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…
For the best part of the last ten years, poker legend Daniel Negreanu has been documenting his annual WSOP grind through a series of daily vlogs. I have watched bits and pieces over the years but never really followed it fully. But this year, one of my friends was buying a piece of Dnegs world series action through the 'Pokerstake' site. A few of our poker grouped chipped in £50 each, having…
I had a new favourite game: Badugi. I discovered the game last year, and after playing just three tournaments, I came up with the following sticky note guide to Badugi to keep myself on the straight and narrow: You get dealt 4 cards, a 'badugi' is when you have one of each suit. The lower the cards the better. Pairs count against you. You get three rounds of drawing and betting. Got a badugi? BET…
~ probably some Scottish guy It's the final week of SCOOP! And despite the uninspiring run of results thus far, I had high hopes for this week, with tickets for both the hold'em and omaha (low) main events! I'd won an $11 ticket on Twitter, been holding onto a $109 power pass ticket from before SCOOP and won the $215 ticket from just 50 cents as part of the SCOOP League Team Spraggy qualification.…
