Auspicious first Badugi hand

Last night, I played Badugi for the first time ever, and really enjoyed it. I won the very first Badugi hand I played, and hit my first Badugi just two hands later. That's a four card hand where each card is of a different suit and denomination. Badugis are quite hard to come by, and you don't need to hit one to win a hand (but it sure helps :-)). I did well in the Badugi tournament, even leading it at one point, but failed to make the money. I was double-tabling the Badugi tournament with an 8-game tournament, and did make the money in the 8-game. In other news, my 2018 balance went more than 2 million into the red, and my blue distance hit a new all time high of $11,057,000. Double ouch!

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   8-Game  45000  5000       6   109      70   18    11    67000
MTT   Badugi  45000  5000       8    50      61   12    14        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    61      68   15    23        0

delta: $-333,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $31,378,500
2018 balance: $-2,036,000
balance: $43,477,260