432A Badugi Poker

I’m 43 years old. Nobody alive today has grown up with video games more than I have. I had many of the first video games to be released to the public. We had pong the week it came out. I had this tank battle game you probably never saw that was damn close to the first one out in the arcades. Had 4 joysticks…was kinda cool for its time.

I don’t know why really because he just never struck me as the type of guy who would get as much enjoyment out of what really was just the dumbest thing you’d ever seen, but my mother’s boy friend at the time loved pong. Big biker-ish dude was into cars, bikes, guns, german shepherds yet he was like a little kid playing that thing.

Two white rectangles, kinda like the paddle in the game breakout if you’ve played that, and a fuzzy white square “ball” and it was TV tennis. Only, the paddles had a bit of “keep moving depending on speed” to em. The ball was slow as I don’t know what I was in third grade at the time and I can remember thinking we were the coolest people ever because we had one of these and nobody else I knew did…felt that way for like a couple weeks anyway. Then I was bored of it. I’d play once in a while but only if bored.

I’ve always had the best joysticks/mouse thingy I could get. I still have old game systems like a sega with the SF stick. That thing ROCKS! I’ve been using a trackball instead of a mouse for years and would never be without one. I’ve got a nice logitech, they make great TBs but this one has really big buttons, which I love, but they normally cost me chips at the poker tables. I’ll be moving my hand back to make a play and bump a button misclick. No big deal it does not happen often it’s just when I get a misclick it’s normally bad.

So today I’m playing a lil badugi and catch a 7something rainbow on 1st street in the CO. It checks around to me and I bet. The hand continues that way with everyone drawing or folding along the way. It was looking like another uneventful one badugi hand when I reach to make the last bet and BUMP I click check. Ok…no big deal the button was drawing and chances are he folds anyway. The draw also eliminates a CR here so imagine my surprise when BAM up come some chips. I know this guy and had he been pat I’d have tried a CR soon as he stood. He’s got a tendency to fire back with bad hands and a 7 low badugi is good enough to go to war with. I don’t figure to be bad here so I fire back, he calls. He’s got a 3 card.

I guess he figured I had checked paint and he could push me off it. Thing is he knows I know his act well and I’m calling damn near anything like that he throws up. Total gift to me. :D

My “mouse” is still in the red when it comes to hands it decides it wants to play but at least today it made me a profit!

I’m sorry I only have that one hand up at the moment but I’m really not happy with posting the raw HH like that. Nothing will convert play money hands that I know of and if there are any I haven’t found one that will handle badugi SNGs. I’m hoping that might change else I’m going to have to write my own. As far as videos go I’ve tried a few programs and CamStudio seems like the best free option so far. If anyone knows of better (I’m on a budget and there is no budge in my budget…gotta be free) please let me know. I also need to find one of the microphones I own.

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