First Live Tournament
I won the first live poker tournament I ever played. I think I had been playing online for just over a year, with wildly erratic success/failure before I finally ventured outwith the safe confines of home to play poker in a live environment. My friends and I had numerous home games, but that was never going to prepare me for the shark infested waters real life casino tournaments. One of the guys from our home game, Brentos, joined me for what was, for both of us, our first live poker tournament. You'll have to forgive me for the hazy recollection of the event, a combination of nervous excitement and alcohol means my memory of the details is a bit foggy. G iven the prize up top and the tournament length, it was a relatively small tournament but it was a big deal to me. I think I bought in for about £20 and there was roughly 30 runners. Re-buys were available but at that time I didn't have the knowledge or confidence to get involved with whatever that was. ...