Time flies - Poker

Wow, I almost cannot believe it myself, the previous post is from May last year! I guess it is actually time to catch up a bit on all the time past since then!

As you may know the financial crisis has had a bit of an impact on us aswell. From December 08 till September last year Peter was out of a job. Luckily Ellen was working all the time so, no real financial problems for us.

Of course being at home for a long time means you have time 'on your sleeve' available to pursue other interests. One day in June I was looking at the Windows games availabe under Vista and played some Texas Hold'Em games. Of course it took some time to have an idea of the game, because other than seeing poker in movies, I had no idea what the game was about really.

A few weeks later I discovered there was (actualy are more, but this would probably the biggest one) an online poker site (pokerstars.com) where you can actually play (for free as well as for money) against people all over the world. Now I have always been enjoying playing card games since I was a child, and after years of hardly playing any at all, I now had an opportunity to catch up on some card game time:-).

By now (a good half year after 'discovering' Texas Hold'Em BY chance), I have become a fairly regular (online-) player. Of course, somewhere in the back of my mind always the idea that it would be very nice to get to a professional level and who knows in time being able to earn an income playing poker (keep on dreaming Pete ;-) ;-))

Except playing against other people (at sit&go tables as well as playing tourneys) pokerstars also organize all kind of freeroll tourneys that give you options to get into the major tournaments. Not easy of course, but possible...

The latest initiative is the online championship for bloggers. Another opportunity to play some serious (freeroll) poker and have a chance to earn something nice ;-).

A condition for entering into this is that you have an active blog which is older than 2 months (easy for this blog!) and updated regularly. For the rest it would be appreciated to keep update on the progress for these tournaments...
So, a long introduction, but expect to read some poker stuff in the next days ... I am going to enter this blog tonight, and hope they will process it with speed since the tourneys start today ... :-)

Finally, in case your interested as well HERE is some information on this particular tournament. Hope to see you there:-)