John Turner

Depending on how you look at it, I’m either fortunate or unfortunate enough to work for a company that shuts down for almost two weeks during the Christmas holidays. If I don’t work I don’t get paid, which sucks, especially around the holidays, but then again, it is nice to have all that time off.

One of the things I did over the break was go down to Motor City with my buddy RC to play poker. I’ve pretty much given up playing online, and have decided to focus on playing in live games and tournaments this year. Aside from home games, I’ve only played against strangers live at a casino once before. Motor City has a tournament at noon every day, so we went down there last week and bought in. The buy-in was $65, with $15 going to the house and $50 going to the purse. I know, I know, $65 isn’t the big time, but there’s no reason to spend $200-$500 when you’re just getting your feet wet and practicing playing live.

So $65, it ended up being 40 people, no limit hold ‘em. Read the rest of this entry »