Blogger Poker Tournament
I came across this Blogger Poker Tournament today, a day before the registration ends (it ends Thursday, June 15th.) What better way to spend the peak hours of a San Diego Sunday afternoon than cooped up in doors, trying to win any number of prizes including a seat in the WSOP and a bunch of ipod nanos, by playing poker strictly against other bloggers.
Truly, I think that Poker Stars should require people to listen to a two song mix of Kenny Rogers "The Gambler" and OAR - "Crazy Game of Poker" throughout the entire tournament, and the last many to be able to endure it would win. In fact, screw the poker, just make that a challenge in itself. I was thinking about going through the various blogs I like to read and critiquing what I imagine their pokers skillz would be based on their music tastes, but that seems futile considering how well I expect to do here. I'm gonna consider anything less than the ipods that are prizes for spots 21-40 a failure. I'll let you know how it goes.
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!
This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.
Registration code: 8496611
I'll also give you this nugget based on the songs I provided today. When discussing last week what the best concerts I've ever been to are, I wanted a chance to mention the worst I've ever been to. That would be the above mentioned OAR at the 9:30 club in DC, one summer during college. It was the kind of show where you waited forever for the band to come on in the DC summer heat, thereby draining the little momentum you had straight out of you. Then the singer turned out to look just like this guy that everyone hated in high school. On top of it, his girlfriend was evidently in the balcony that overlooked the stage, kind of like at 4th and B. He made multiple acknowledgments of this fact, including something that sounds way too made up when I think back on it but I swear it happened. During the part towards the end of the poker song he sings
"He looked kind of mad / and I, felt bad / because I took his money / last night, it's kind of funny / but now I'm just strugglin' / I need a honey"The singer replaced "I need A honey" with "I need MY honey," as the band dramaticly cut out, the lights came on and he pointed emphaticly up towards the balcony like John Travolta on the Saturday Night Fever poster. Then the song resumed, and I stood their shocked, wondering how something so lame could have possibly happened. To this day, that moment of concert suckitude has never been topped.
Comments
i read a TERRIFYING article about on line poker in the sunday new york times- about this college student who robbed a bank because he was like, five thousand dollars in debt. sad stuff.
poker is like, worse then crystal meth.
Posted by: cat dirt | June 15, 2006 06:40 PM
if you actually want a good gamblin' song to listen to this sunday afternoon i recommend bob dylan's "rambling gambling willie" off the bootleg series... and if you, lets say, happen to have any friends who are particularly into online poker, i'd recommend it to them too...there's a nice little moral at the end:
http://bobdylan.com/songs/willie.html
(the moral being keep playing online poker because no one can shoot at you through cyberspace)
Posted by: lauren | June 16, 2006 10:23 AM