Something pretty crazy happened on Saturday night. Most of you know that I enjoy playing poker and play a decent amount on-line. Well, one of the sites that I play at, Full Tilt Poker, has a frequent player points program that they use, and after accumulating a certain, very minimal number of points, I was enrolled in a free tournament that took place on 3:30 Saturday afternoon.
Here's how it worked: 1417 people were signed up, and the first prize was a free buy-in to the $10,000 main event at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas in July. The big one, the main event, the most prestigious poker tournament in the world, the one that determines the World Champion, the one that ESPN plays and replays incessantly. Anyway, in most tournaments, first place gets the biggest prize (obviously) and other places pay out proportionally. But since the web site was putting on this tournament as a freeroll, there was only one prize--the $10,000 seat for free. Coming in second would be worth absolutely nothing but the pain and heartbreak of knowing that you came so close.
And I won. I actually won. I'll get into the specifics of winning at some other point, but the bottom line is that I'm going to be playing in the WSOP. It is, quite literally, a dream come true. More updates on this will follow. Tons of them. You'll be quite sick of hearing about it, I'm sure.
Today, Monday, is Beth's birthday. We went to her parents' house last night for a nice, quiet dinner. Everyone was surprisingly tired and reserved, myself included. I think I was actually still emotionally spent from the tournament the night before. Clearly, I need to practice and get into better "poker shape" before The Big One.
Okay...I'm off to look for Vegas hotel rooms and watch some World Poker Tour episodes on TiVo, looking for tells from my possible opponents. Oh, I forgot to mention that first place at the WSOP this year is estimated to be around $10 million. *gulp*...
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