Winning poker was not a problem as we were raking in the money. I actually took a year off playing because I started to ignore my family . . . YET, I was making $200 a week play $2 poker (4 tables at once for 20 hours a week). I was getting addicted to winning low stakes poker.
ANYWAY - we would look for games and websites from countries where the players were just learning. We also noticed that players in the UK played a different style of game. Americans are very analytical going by numbers and percentages while in the UK players would just bludgeon there poker games with aggressive bluffing.
SO - when an Asian game called Badugi started showing up and there were no books or basic strategy to be found - it seemed perfect. All we had to do was figure out basic strategy since nobody knew what it was we thought this would be yet another way to make money.
Badugi? Awesome fun game and we even played it on our bowling team when I used to bowl (I had a 299 once - overcooked that last ball, went Brooklyn and and left a pin). Maybe I'll introduce it in golf next year.
It's like draw poker - you are dealt 4 cards and there is a blind and a small blind like in Hold'm. There are 3 rounds of betting with 2 rounds of drawing and discarding.
The goal in Badugi is to have a four-card low hand with four different suits, and no pairs. The best possible starting hand therefore is 4-3-2-A (with each card a different suit).
Hands are ranked by the lowest highest card and Aces are always low and straights are ignored. A player with 9-8-4-3 of different suits will lose to a player holding 8-7-3-2 (an ‘Eight Badugi’) of different suits. 6-5-4-A (a ‘Six-Five Badugi’) would lose to a 6-4-3-2 (a ‘Six-Four Badugi’). If the top card is a tie the next card is looked at.
The trick is to have 4 different suits with your 4 cards. If nobody has 4 suits then it goes to the best (or worst actually) 3 card hand.
Try it for fun some night. It's an awesome little game that died when the NFL and Republicans froze everybody assets overseas. If you want to piss off people, don't piss off poker players. There were 8 Republican sponsors for the bill that froze our assets for 6 months overseas and they tried to make online poker illegal by not allowing gambling money into our banking system. The NFL is still around but all 8 sponsors lost their next elections. Bernie Sanders was the head of the American Poker Alliance.
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Football Outsiders says the Packers, with A A Ron R Dogers', have a 1.9% chance of making it to the Conference Championship and a 0.3% chance to win the Super BowlThe Eagles with Foles have a 56% chance and 14.3% chance to win the SuperBowl right behind Pittsburgh.
The chance for a Keystoned Bowl (Pitts / Philly) is 10.7%
The chance for a rematch of SuperBowl XLV (Pitts / GB) is 0.2%.
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Side Note - Trump, this morning is at his lowest approval rating ever when you combine all 100 polls into an average. Beating his August 29th rating. He is at 36.7%
Think one side is fired up? I saw a graph of the last 20 elections cycles and how many people on each side are running for an office across the country. By an astronomical number the left is in a feeding frenzy with candidates. For instance - for the first time EVER, Texas will have at least two candidates in every single house seat.
I wish I could find that graph but looking at the last 20 elections lets say the average number of liberal candidates for those 20 elections Nationwide was let's say . . 8 and the number of conservative candidates the average was 7. For the NEXT election the number of liberal candidates is close to 90 (no, really it's THAT crazy) and the Conservative candidates are still 7.
Who is fired up?
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Interest rates ticked up yesterday for the 3rd time. Credit cards, mortgages and loans will all soon go up (if that have not already).
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Ever hear of Outreach calling? They are a telemarketing group that asks for money to help veterans. They keep 90% of the money they collect. OH - they are a Republican SuperPAC fund raising company that funnels money to support their tea party agenda, NOT to help veterans.
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The Russian economic deficit has doubled in the last year - Trump wants to mirror Russia I think.
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WEATHER - weekend is look good. 36 Saturday and some sun. In fact starting Saturday we will be in the upper 30s and MAYBE even a low 40 by next Thursday and then the bottom drops up for NEXT weekend. No snow for a while and lost of sun with a few clouds.
