Bloggers and poker

Wil Wheaton's blog had a post mentioning that pokerstars.com is having a World Blogger Championship of Online Poker. It's a freeroll, and all I have to do is place an ad on my page and I'm in. So, without further ado, here it is:

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 4045295

It should be fun. It's actually a pretty good deal for all parties involved. Pokerstars.com gets free advertising dusted across blogtopia and undoubtedly just as many posts from bloggers reporting their results. And bloggers get a free chance to win a variety of poker/blogger related swag. Also, as Mr. Wheaton so aptly pointed out in his blog, the above linkage is SEOtastic and likely to draw in new readers to blogs that post it.

I don't expect to place too highly in the event itself. Freerolls of this magnitude tend to be fraught with such perils as the allinornothing bombers, the neverraiseneverfold minefields, and the undead money (bad players who become dangerous with irrational, unpredictable moves). It should be fun though. First place is entry into, travel to, and housing for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, a tournament on Paradise Island. So, for the next week, I can entertain dreams about island antics, and that'll be fun for me. I'll make sure to post my results after the freeroll.

I'm grateful for Pushing Daisies (20).