Draw Poker

Shouldn't Draw Poker be a part of the World Series of Poker?  OK, yes, they do play a little Draw, but they play Lowball.  They play 2-7 Triple Draw and 2-7 No Limit.  That is it.  Somebody please explain to me why it is that they would play only Lowball Draw.  They are going to give away 61 WSOP Bracelets this year in, as they say in their press release, "all variations of Poker."
I definitely think they are missing something without a draw poker event.  If they can have a $10,000 entry fee for 2-7 No Limit Lowball, they can certainly have at least one event in No Limit Draw Poker - the game played by Wild Bill Hickock when he was murdered holding Aces and Eights, the game played in the movie "Big Hand for a Little Lady, the game played by Bret Maverick - the legend of the West, the game played by Omar sharif in "Funny Girl" when he was losing all of Fanny Brice's money and yes, the game Nicholas Cage was playing in "Honeymoon in Vegas" when he lost his wife to James Caan's higher straight flush.  C'mon guys, let's get the historic game back into the World Series of Poker.

I think I'll start tracking my poker results on my blog, just for the heck of it.

Played at Hard Rock today.  Played a few hands of $1-$2 No Limit Hold'em while waiting for a $1-$3 seat to open up.  I prefer $1-$3 at the Rock because the buy-in is minimum $100 versus the minimum $40 on the $1-$2.  The higher minimum makes for a better game because with larger stacks, there is a better chance that there will be a decision on every betting round.

I only played about three hands at $1-$2, but one of them was Pocket Queens.  Raised pre-flop and got heads-up.  Good flop of all low cards.  Bet - Raise - Reraise all in - Call.  Queens held up.  +70.

Then at the $1-$3 table I couldn't win a pot for the first hour.  If I hit top pair, somebody flopped two pair.  Down about $150 I bought in for an additional $100, just in case I got a hand. Next hand, on the button, caught AA.  A call, then a raise to $6 and a call and I raised it to $30.  The Big Blind called and so did the original raiser.  Flop comes J-J-9 rainbow suits.  I poke out $20 and the Big Blind goes all in for $82.  The raiser hems and haws and thinks out loud and says he's got a draw and just can't lay it down, so he calls for the $82 with just $11 left behind.  I start thinking out loud, 90 in the pot plus my 20 and then 160 is like $270.  $62 to win $270?  Well, even if I'm behind I probably have outs.  I call. I doubted that he had a Jack because most players in that situation would just call or raise minimally for fear that they would drive out their customers. The Big Blind guy had KK and the other had KQ for an inside straight draw with 2 overs to the board.   A couple of bricks on the Turn and River and my Aces held up.  Whew!

After that, I won a few small pots and lost a few small pots to add a little to my stack.  I cashed out for $508 which made me plus $208 for the day.