Poker face

I'm writing this after a night out in town, it's quite late and I'm pretty tired but I felt like posting something so excuse me if I misspell something or if I simply don't make sense and get over it you ingrates! (Just kidding hehe I wouldn't dare offend you my loyal readers ;)) The shitty part is that I had to queue for nearly 2 hours to get to the fuckin' place, I was there on my own and it was freezin' cold. The not-so-shitty part is that I met some interesting people in the process. I met a couple of half drunken girls, one from Finland and one from Windsor, they were good fun but they ended up cutting the line coz they knew the bouncer. Then I met some mexican girls I already knew but with whom I didn't speak all that much so the queue helped us (or better put, forced us) to socialize. I also met many spanish people along the way and some german dudes and dudettes. In fact, I think I may have had more fun whilst queuing than when I actually (and finally) entered the club.

Anyways, I'm starting to ramble... I think the original motivation of my post was to say something about my venturing into the mysterious territories of online poker. Oh yeah, that's what it was, so here goes.

As you may or may not know I'm kind of a competitive person by nature. I love to play any type of board game (dominoes, poker, risk, rummy, battleship, you name it) and beat the crap out of anybody who might be playin' against me, and I must say I'm actually pretty good at it, maybe because I sometimes take it to seriously and I'm stubborn enough to master the game or simply because the people playin' against me just don't give a rat's ass if they win or lose, personally I like to think that is the former but who knows.

Also, you might have noticed lately that poker, in particular texas hold'em, has become pretty big especially in the states and in the little island they like to call britain the craze has caught on as well.

Motivated by the fact that I've won a couple of pesos and pounds over the last month playin' poker with my friends and my aforementioned competitiveness, I decided to create an account to play online and kick some virtual butt. Signing up and depositing money into your account it's pretty easy peasy (after all the bastards are after your money) and once you do that, on you go! You're ready to get yourself some money! Turns out you can even qualify to a real life poker tourney, with thousands of pouds in prizes, by playin' online satellites which only cost 2 usd. I've been tryin' to win one of these satellites but at the moment of writing still haven't been able to, close as I may have come.
What I did win though was a welcome-to-our-site-we'll-let-you-play-this-one-for-free-but-after
-that-you-must-surrender-your-soul-to-us kind of tournament. It was a free tournament for players that had signed up at most one week before. I said 'What the heck, it's free so I might as well play it' and out of the 51 good for nothing loafers that entered I came out the victor (clever, huh?) winning a grand prize of 90 usd. That was pretty cool at the moment and I was very excited until I found out that the stupid site didn't like the fact that I won and now it's out to get me. All that's left of the 90 dollars is something like 21, the rest I've dilapidated on satellites to try to get to the stupid british poker open and other tourneys. But you can bet your ass that I'll spend the rest of my bounty (and perhaps even more) tryin' to do it and get on national tv! :D

So there you have it, if you play poker online you don't require to have a good poker face since nobody else can see you but you'll certainly never become rich unless you play against carbon-based life forms and not the silicon-based ones that can bend the odds in favour of whoever they feel like bending them. Damn computers! Orwell was right! (Have you seen that AOL ad?)

Victor

p.s. I didn't like this post at all, I hope that if someone reads it it doesn't come off as crappy as I think it is. But an update is an update, innit? And if you don't like it, well...go read my to kill a mockingbird post, I think that it's the less vain and better written outta the 4 I've done.

p.s. Leave comments! Yes you! Don't act dumb ... ¬_¬