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[MintTrav]

3rd Break - total registered 390. Currently 185/230. E. Katchalov on my right with lots of chips. What could be better?

[MintTrav]

Well, it"s over, which is as much as can be said for it. Lost loads with QQ in the hole against AA in his hole and never recovered. I needed to get my chips in after that, but picked up a succession of unplayable hands and couldn"t call against multiple bets before me. I hated letting my stack dwindle but I got put out of my misery eventually.

165/390, though it should have been a few places earlier if I had got the chips in.

There were only 37 runners in the Second Chance by the end of the Late Reg, so I couldn"t see any point in playing it. I"ll refund proportionately.

[MintTrav]

Badugi
1st break - 182 runners so far.
Current position 16/156.

I had one hand where I potted a dealt J-high Badugi and got raised. The other guy stood pat. I broke my Badugi and drew a Q of the same suit for a worse made hand. I know that players can sometimes go mental with high Badugis but it"s unlikely his was K-high. I didn"t fancy drawing for a lot of chips, so I folded.

Caught a nice 5-high Badugi in the last hand before the break. 3-way to the end, with Marcel Luske also standing pat. I tried to get him to call a 600 bet into a pot of over 2000, but he was too good to fall for that and folded eventually. I guess the 600 looks like it wants to be called, so maybe I should have blasted the pot, but that probably makes it easier for him to get away.

[MintTrav]

And I double him up, my dealt Badugi losing to his drawn one. He was drawing very strong though, as he ended up with A234.

[MintTrav]

Gosh, that man sure likes to draw. And doesn"t mind paying for them. He"s done it quite a few times.

[MintTrav]

2nd break - 232 entrants so far (it"s open for another hour if you fancy taking a shot)

Current position 22/159.

Had one very nice hand and someone got stacked.

[MintTrav]

59/150; 279 runners in the end

Got involved in a big hand 3-way against FTOPS winner jimbomber and MicroMillions winner dev209 - not such a good idea, which cost me chips. I made a 9-8 Badugi and called a reraise from jimbomber. We both stood pat and I folded on the next street. Obviously, if I was going to fold eventually, I should have just folded straight away, so that was a mistake. He told me he had an 8-high, which was prob true. I told him it was better than mine, but not how big a hand I had passed, in case they all highlight a weak spot.

[MintTrav]

I don"t know if this was a good call or a terrible one, probably terrible. I could have been paying off with a very dodgy hand but it seemed such an obvious spot for him to be bluffing. Considering who it was, he is obviously capable of a bluff, which it was. Fold?

PokerStars Hand #104270415317: Tournament #2013090029, $300+$20 USD Badugi Pot Limit - Level IX (75/150) - 2013/09/17 22:03:12 WET [2013/09/17 17:03:12 ET]
Table "2013090029 10" 8-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Bassysaffari (5000 in chips)
Seat 2: Hariseldo723 (7192 in chips)
Seat 3: dev209 (20348 in chips)
Seat 4: sk86 (7793 in chips)
Seat 5: ThoraAndrea (6572 in chips)
Seat 6: iwonthurtyou (5858 in chips)
Seat 7: MintTrav (8599 in chips)
Seat 8: jimbomber (16754 in chips)
MintTrav: posts small blind 75
jimbomber: posts big blind 150
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to MintTrav [ ]
Bassysaffari: raises 150 to 300
Hariseldo723: folds
dev209: folds
sk86: folds
ThoraAndrea: folds
iwonthurtyou: folds
MintTrav: calls 225
jimbomber: folds
*** FIRST DRAW ***
MintTrav: discards 1 card []
Dealt to MintTrav [ ] []
Bassysaffari: discards 2 cards
MintTrav: bets 300
Bassysaffari: calls 300
*** SECOND DRAW ***
MintTrav: discards 1 card []
Dealt to MintTrav [ ] []
Bassysaffari: discards 2 cards
MintTrav: bets 900
Bassysaffari: calls 900
*** THIRD DRAW ***
MintTrav: discards 1 card []
Dealt to MintTrav [ ] []
Bassysaffari: discards 1 card
MintTrav: checks
Bassysaffari: bets 3150
MintTrav: calls 3150
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Bassysaffari: shows [ ] (3-card: 7,3,A)
MintTrav: shows [ ] (3-card: 5,4,2)
MintTrav collected 9450 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 9450 | Rake 0
Seat 1: Bassysaffari showed [ ] and lost with a 3-card: 7,3,A
Seat 2: Hariseldo723 folded before the Draw (didn"t bet)
Seat 3: dev209 folded before the Draw (didn"t bet)
Seat 4: sk86 folded before the Draw (didn"t bet)
Seat 5: ThoraAndrea folded before the Draw (didn"t bet)
Seat 6: iwonthurtyou (button) folded before the Draw (didn"t bet)
Seat 7: MintTrav (small blind) showed [ ] and won (9450) with a 3-card: 5,4,2
Seat 8: jimbomber (big blind) folded before the Draw

[MintTrav]

5/90 at 4th break. Won a big hand against jimbomber.

40 get paid.

[MintTrav]

Break 5 - 7/59.

Break 6 - 18/41.

Break 7 - 22/26. It"s slipping away.

[MintTrav]

Ran out of cards towards the end.

Finished 22nd for $837.

[Erimus]

Good effort, good luck for the rest of the games.

[mporter123]

Nice start John, well played. I was railing for a while last night, couldn"t work out for the life of me what was going on but it looked interesting.

[AMRN]

WP John

Looking at that HH you posted, it took me so long to work out why you had won the hand, that I"m glad I don"t play Badugi.

[AAroddersAA]

12.6% markup?!?! Serious?

I believe my edge in limit games is more than that, but I"ve kept it down. It"s not actually a big mark-up if you look at other forums.

Anyway, I have seen staking threads on here with far bigger mark-ups than that, including several where the player was putting up nothing himself.

How much will I put you down for?

Agree with John here but there is nothing wrong with asking the question. John gave a good answer and stats to back it up in this case so markup represents good value. This is not always the case with staking threads and potential backers have every right to ask questions and I would like to see more of it personally.

Anyway good luck with this to everybody definitively a +EV offer