Celebrity Poker Party

Poker: A Game on the Rise

I started playing poker around 10 years ago and since then I have seen the game grow from an excuse to drink beer and smoke cigars with your buddies to a multimillion dollar industry.

It’s not that I’m complaining about it, but I can’t believe how popular poker has got. If you’re a good poker player and enter the right tournaments you could eventually became a celebrity, as popular as some up-and-coming movie star.

I can understand why poker is popular on television. It’s a lot like a game show, average people trying to win a crazy amount of money playing a game that you and I can play at home.

With the evolution of poker comes the armchair poker pros that seem to make their way to every poker game you play. I played against one recently at a party a friend of mine was hosting. He talked in detail about all the winnings he stole from some of the best players around, he also talked about all the offers some online poker sites and professional tournament wanting him to play for them. I know that I am not the world’s best poker player, I’m not even close, but I destroyed this guy at the table, he was one of the worst players I have ever seen.

He was the type of guy who would go all in every time he had something that resembled a decent hand. Of course most of the time people would not play him, but eventually I ended up taking his chips when he bet everything on pocket threes.

Anyway, what I am trying to say with this rant this week is poker is a game that has changed a lot over the last few years and it will be interesting to see how much further it will evolve over the future.

posted by Celebrity Poker Party @ 10:03 AM