Brunson & The Badger (Well, sort of...)

Now that I am "home" (not really certain what that means to a vagabond Badger, but at least I will be staying put for a few weeks), I wanted to share an episode from my trip to Vegas a few weeks back.

It was my first night playing at the Bellagio, and I was waiting for a spot at a table. I took a look around the massive room and there, towards the back, was a separate room. It held only one table and, as I glanced in it's direction, I recognized a couple famous faces: John Juanda and....even more impressively, the man himself: Doyle Brunson.

I was promptly seated by the uber-friendly staff, and my attention turned from the man who wrote the book (quite literally), who was quite possibly playing $400/$800 no-limit to my paltry $1/$3 game.

A couple of nights later, I was back at the Bellagio. I'd stepped it up to a whoppin' $2/$5 game. And when I was seated I was shocked to find myself at the closest seat facing the open door of Bobby's Room. And directly in front of me (perhaps 10-15 yards away), Texas Dolly himself was playing. I was almost close enough to count his chips--although I assure you, they were of a very different color than my own!

As I settled into my game, I focused on my own cards and all but forgot about the big dogs in the next room. That is, until I was dealt a suited 10-2 (Doyle won the WSOP twice with the old ten-deuce; the hand is in fact named in his honor).

It was a full table and I was in early position. An easy fold. But on the other hand...I had the Brunson, and there was the man himself in front of me! I looked at my cards again, and finally mucked. I would like to think that Doyle would have understood.

Back to my online game: I finished March at a paltry $128.15; showing a whopping profit of about $30 for the quarter. If I keep this up, I should be able to reach $10,000...by the end of the year 2109! The good news is that I am not losing money. The bad news is that I am way, way off the game I need to be playing to even have a hope of hitting the $10,000 mark. But that won't stop me from trying! Anyway, back to the tables...