May 14, 2010
Carbon poker PL Badugi freeroll
Carbon poker’s $200 badugi pot limit freeroll is tough. I took a few days off from it because I’d been going deep again and getting frustrated with coming up empty handed.
Went 121/1896 today and I’m glad I’m able to consistently go deep but I need to figure out if my strategy needs to change somewhere or if it’s luck or wtf…
I’ve tried ultra tight and that wasn’t really working out. I feel like I’ve found a balance that works for me it’s just a really tough game with how crazy some of the play is. You have freeroll maniacs aplenty willing to come back over the top to 4 bet all in a KJ62r then stand pat all the way vs a dealt 742Ar. Gotta dodge those.
Nub’s too…they can cost you big time getting mixed up in a hand with a nub when you’re on the wrong side of a close one. Dodge them too.
You need to watch for the sandbaggers. Guys playing ‘country dumb’ with the cards 532A in their top shirt pocket just waiting for the first good player to decide “he’s a nub and I have him crushed with my 743Arâ€. Definitely dodge those.
Then when you get deep you end up getting moved to a table where you’re short stacked in comparison to the rest of the table and you have good players looking to make things real hard on you by tossing lots of chips around at the most inopportune times.
It’s a nice to know I’d still be a profitable player even in these conditions it would just be really nice to actually profit from this game.
1 Comments:
Plutoman posted on May 27, 2010 at 18:41 PM
I haven't played one of those for a long time. That was probably my first taste of badugi. I never got anywhere. A combination of the 7-minute levels (which I found a killer), some bad luck and probably bad play on my part. I could never figure out a successful strategy either.
Things have obviously changed. They were only $50 then, and the field was limited to 1500.
When it comes to real $ tournaments ($2.20 level), I actually find PL to be more profitable than fixed. There's more play in PL I find. The blinds in the fixed tourneys quickly get the point where the average stack is 5 BB or something ridiculous.
I'll post some more SCOOP hands soon (yes I know it's been nearly a month...)
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