How I miss my days of playing Texas Hold’em with the boys. Me and a friend use to go out and play poker at a restaurant. It was pretty fun to do and really didn’t cost a lot either. You would pay $10 to get in and they would let you buy more poker chips for $5 up until 9 PM. Once that time came, they would make an announcement about the last buy-ins. Most of us would usually buy more chips if we needed them or not. Just so we could play Texas Hold’em in the wee hours of the morning. Most of these poker tournaments would last past midnight.

Since it is illegal to gamble online here in the state of WA, like it is for most states in the U.S many people are turning to online sites like facebook to compete against their friends for free.  We have started to play some of the free games like Poker on Facebook. There are basically two ways to increase your chip count and that is buy facebook poker chips through one of the authorized sites, or win them at the table.If I remember correctly I think they just paid the top 2 players and the final prize to the winner would be based on the number of people that played in the poker tournaments. Sometimes we would start these tournaments with only about 5 or 6 people playing and sometimes we would have as many as 25 playing. I won a few of these tournaments, but really only one big one. There was 24 players in the one big tournament I won. This might not seem that big to you, but for an amateur poker player like myself, it was quite an accomplishment to beat 23 other players out of a poker game. I couldn’t miss that night and my hands were just really good and I had no part in the tournament win. There was no bluffing or magical bets I made to pull off the win, I just kept getting good hands over and over. There was always someone that would stick with me and that was key to me winning it all.

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