Welcome to the Final Table

Welcome to XLNT's Poker Blog

I have been playing online poker since early 2009

since then I have played somewhere in the neighbor hood

of 3/4 of a million hands of poker.

So I thought I would start a poker blog, My addiction is Texas Holdem.  There are two distinct flavors of Texas Holdem, Cash or Ring games and Tournaments. A Ring game is any game that you are able to buy in multiple times (There are tournaments that allow re-buys, But that's a whole nuther animal). Ring or Cash games can cost you every thing you may have in your pocket. A tournament on the other hand costs a set buy in and you receive a specified amount of chips. The object is to make it to the Final Table. Depending on how many players are registered in the tourney, the bubble (the number of players that can win a prize.) can be any where from 9 to 250 or even more.


This will I hope become a continuous Blog, we'll see I guess.
My intention is to give Players a place to ask Questions and Leave answers.

The following is from a tourney I was playing in on Full Tilt Poker I ended up placing 18th, out 17,455 total players. Below is the first and I hope not the last Royal Flush I've caught in my Poker Career.

This was the 22nd hand I played in the above mentioned tourney.