For those of you still out there, waiting desperately for me to post, yesterday's interruption in service must have been truly dreadful. For the other 99.999999% of you, you probably didn't even notice. But you'll all be happy to know that the person responsible for failing to pay the bill has been promoted to being responsible for not paying any of my bills, as he has shown a tremendous aptitude for the task.
In other news, most of you have noticed the blurb directly above, flashing XBox 360s and Plasma monitors at you as you try to read these posts. Well, if you haven't clicked on it, here's what that is all about.
About 6 months ago, I began to play poker online, and I've done fairly well, meaning I haven't lost all the money I started with yet. In truth, if you add in the trip I took to Tunica a few weeks ago, I'm actually up about 20%, which is pretty cool.
I started of playing for free on Poker Stars, chosen because I didn't have them on my list of places never to play because of obnoxious spam attacks on my site. It was only after I signed up that I found out that the two previous World Series of Poker Champions (Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker) came from there.
I lost thousands of free chips before I decided I might need to learn a little about the game I was playing. I went directly to the book store and purchased books by Dan Harrington, David Sklansky, and Doyle Brunson and began to study. I am happy to say that, after one session of study, I never went broke again.
SO I decided to play for real money and opened an account. I put in the $50 I had left over from my stock market investments (Please don't ask what I started with; it's a painful memory) and boldly sallied forth to play $0.05/$0.10 limit hold 'em. And I won. Now, you don't win much playing low limit, but I wasn't losing money; that was the important thing. I moved up a level or two, and I now play mostly $0.25/$0.50 limit, but I plan on moving up again as I make more money and increase my bankroll.
And then this tournament comes along. Free to enter, open only to bloggers, and the top prize is a place at the table for a World Poker Tour event. To those of you who haven't been watching Poker on TV, this is the equivalent of being given a car to drive at the Daytona 500 for getting the fastest lap at NASCAR Speedpark.
It can only happen in Poker, folks.
So I entered. And now, tomorrow afternoon, at 4PM EDT, I will begin my second online tournament, along with about 1500 other bloggers from around the world, including Wesley Crusher himself, Wil Wheaton, who, having moved up from acting to blogging, is now making a name for himself in the poker world. (Man, I almost feel like Frank Murphy, dropping names of celebrities I almost come into contact with!)
Anyway, you can click on the link above and download th software to watch me lose live, or you can just keep watching this space. I plan on live blogging as much as I can throughout the tournament.
Posted by Rich at October 22, 2005 11:39 PM | TrackBackGood luck!
Posted by: Justin on October 23, 2005 11:20 AM