Texas Hold’em Tournament

I’m into Poker.  I’ve watched many episodes of World Series of Poker, including the luckiest guy who won the main event this year, Jamie Gold, who seemed to give endless streaks of bad beats.  Now some say that Poker is all about luck, and in a way, it is, but obviously some people with their skills are able to capitalize more on the luck they’re given.  Me?  I never get lucky in anything…  if I’m playing rock, paper and scissors with Karen, she’ll beat me 9 out of 10 times.  I really need to squeeze the miles out of what little luck I have.

By the way, some Christians will say there’s no such thing as luck because God is sovereign, and they would be right.  For someone who is omniscient, God knows every flip of the coin in advance.  For the rest of us who isn’t omniscient, however, the outcome of the coin toss becomes…  “luck”… because we don’t know the result in advance.  Just thought I’d clarify that before I get doctrinally bashed by my fellow brethrens.

Anyway, I logged in at PartyPoker as raid123 and gave the PartyPoker hourly tournament a shot for the first time (play money, so no real money involved).  The first game I played had 2980 Entrants with payout for the top 130, and…  Not too bad…  102 … at least I placed in the money!

So I decided to play just one more game (to Karen’s dismay).  This time there were only 1900 entrants, and…  Number 1 Baby!!  🙂  Of course, not that I’m about to delude myself into thinking I’m great or anything, but at least I know something about Poker!