My first blog entry

Since this is my first blog entry, I am assuming that it will get little attention. It will be nice to get my feet wet on this without a large audience. This will also give you a little background on my poker experience.

I was first introduced to poker sometime in grade school. I used to play different games with my friends for pennies. We stepped it up in high school where we would play pot matching games and it wasn't unusual to win or lose $100. That was a lot of money for some 15 year old kids. After the 2002 WSOP main event, I really started to get into Texas Hold'em. We changed our dealer's choice game to hold'em tournaments, and my quest for bigger and better poker began.

After playing at least 20 hours a week online, I got with a group of investors and started an online poker site called www.letspoker.com. Unfortunately, that site didn't make it, but it was a great experience, and we built some really great software. During that time through today, I have played in many large casino tournaments, including 9 wsop events and have 6 cashes that qualify for pokerpages rankings. I hope to dedicate more time to playing in large tournaments in the near future.

Although my favorite part of poker is playing large tournaments, I tend to play in a lot more cash games as the time to payout ratio tends to be higher. There are also a lot more cash games than tournaments, and the time commitment for cash games is less. The attraction to the tournament format for me is that it is set up as a competition with a clear winner. I have always been an overly competitive person, so tournaments fit with my natural personality. I will be playing in a local freeroll tournament on Sunday, so I will post my results then.

Til my next post. Good Luck!