If everyone else is doing it....

I finally decided that I am going to blog about poker. As my blog suggests, I love poker. At the same time, I really hate it.


Lately, I seem to eat, sleep and breath poker. It is constantly on my brain. As my friend Julie would say, I am an addict. But I think it is more. I am completely obsessed with this game. I read about it all the time; the games, the players, high stakes, low stakes, cash games, tourneys, live games, on-line games. I cannot seem to get enough. Lucky for me my Husband loves it almost as much as I do. My eight year old constantly wants to play as well. I think I am creating two monsters.

So, I have decided that I am going to start writing about the games I play and spew my bad beat stories, hero calls and questions about my game to the two or three people I actually tell about this blog.

I have been playing a lot of on-line poker and I really hate it. I was home sick for a week and there was nothing else to do. I played very ok. I played mostly tournaments on full tilt. I am really starting to learn a lot about on-line tournament play. Hopefully I will remember the things that I am learning prior to insta-calling or folding. If I take my time and pay attention to the game, I think I can figure this out.

Tomorrow I am playing a game at Julie's house. I have done pretty well there so far. I have played 16 tournaments and I have cashed in 6. I hope Julie and I are at the same table. We seem to do well if we start at the same table. I think because neither of us want to do something stupid in front of the other person. We shall see how it goes.