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My new timewaster!
Texas Hold'em


Thanks to taynar I have joined the ranks of online poker players.  In my case it's at Full Tilt Poker

I've always sucked at most forms of poker.  Never could keep any of what beat what straight.  This past year or two, however, I've had a bit of a passing interest in Texas Hold'em thanks to Bravo Channel's Celebrity Poker Showdown. Very entertaining to watch these guys. Phil Gordon, the color commentary guy, is someone even coat_of_arms would look up to (Phil is 6'9").  Kinda sad to see how Dave Foley has let himself go, tho.

At any rate, on the 'fake money' side of Full Tilt:  They start you out with $1000 in chips.  You can reload every 5 minutes.   3 hours later, I'd only reloaded once.  Had a blast, met a couple of cool people.   Lots of assholes, but a few cool ones.   This one guy said I wasn't too bad and when he found out it was my first night there he encouraged me to enter in the freeroll tourney that was starting in the next hour.

A 'freeroll' tourney is free to enter.  Real cash prizes for the top 3.  I was in a $20 freeroll for 900 people max: 1st got $10, 2nd got $6, 3rd got $4...or something like that.  You get $1500 in chips.  They started the blind at 15/30 and would raise it every 10 minutes.   By the time I got knocked out it was up to something like 400/800 - with a $125 ante.   Starts to hurt at that point.   I lasted FAR longer than I thought I would.  Was even at several tables with 1 or 2 top ten players at a time.  After the first hour or two I was in the top 100.  I stayed in the top 70 for awhile...and eventually peaked in the top 35.   I finished 34th out of 900.  Not bad for my first time out.  Learned a LOT about the game last night and had a blast to boot.

Now I have a delimma.... World of Warcraft or Texas Hold'Em.  Man... decisions decisions.....


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