Hollay
07-20-2005, 01:37 PM
We've got a great and diverse line-up of Write to Win submissions for you to read and choose from this week.
If this is your first time voting, all you have to do is read the submissions and then vote for your favorite one in the poll. One lucky random voter will score HP gear and the player with the most votes gets a HP tournament ticket. :happy:
This week's finalists:
Submission #1:
Aloha Fellow Poker Pal's,
I was born and raised in the State of Hawaii on the Island of Kauai and I have to admit, I was pretty lucky.
I grew up with an ideal that the world and all people in it were good and honest. Well, as I grew up I came to understand that my belief system might not be too correct. Even so, I still choose to look at the good in people and not all that might not be perfect.
I later married and had three of the most beautiful children God ever put on this earth and they were my life, my inspiration and my soul. When my children were 13, 9 and 2 they were taken from me in a drunk driving car accident with their father who at that time was my ex-husband. My ex was driving and was also the one who was drinking.
After that loss, I became very angry and that old feeling of the world being a bad place all came rushing back to me almost over night. I went to bed and stayed there for almost one year. It was about that time that I came across an online poker site and I began to play. Threw that site I formed a friendship with a girl and we started emailing one another. It was because of her that I made the choice to get out of bed and live for my children so they would always be remembered. So I guess in a way poker saved my life and now it is my most favorite way to spend my free time. Until I found that poker site I had pushed everyone and everything out of my life and all I wanted was to die. One day I found myself looking forward to playing poker and I had not looked forward to anything in a long time.
Here I am 6 years later and I have a life that I never thought I would find again or even want. I still play poker everyday and I love it more and more each time I play.
I am glad to be apart of the Hollywood Poker Family!
~ChicksWhoRip
Submission #2
My mother, sister, brother and I didn’t speak for a week after an ill-fated Scrabble tournament – when we play poker together, its full-out war. Consequently, we don’t play often, but some masochistic impulse drives us back to the tables for the odd trash-talking, pride-crippling, and sometimes, bankroll beneficial poker.
Since most of us love our families and want to share some golden moments without the blood shed, I have devised a list of helpful tips for playing poker with family.
- Refrain from responding to every instance of smack-talk with “Yo momma!”, as your mother may not take kindly to it.
- Do not succumb to threats from siblings or parents to disclose confidential and potentially harmful information to the affected parties. Remember, despite what the fact that your father knows about your tattoo and has manage to stay tight-lipped about it until you tell your mother yourself (10 years from now, after you have moved a safe 300 miles away as opposed to the accessible 5 miles that separates you now), your mom is still harboring the delusion that your father is attending those sensitively training courses once a week and not pissing away valuable brain cells and money at the pub with his friends.
- Your older brother may have been able to beat you up when you were a feeble 5, but that gym membership as paid off and they don’t call you ‘Quad Queen’ for nothing.
- Any inter-familial guilt-trips are akin to cheating or collusion and any attempt to use said device – especially by the mother-figure – should result in the player being banned from the table and sent for pizza and beer, on them.
And finally…
- In my experience, if you want to avoid physical injury and limit the personal affronts all together, play at HollywoodPoker.com. There are other players to divert you and no chances of your sister giving you an atomic wedgy when you beat her pocket K’s with trip 4’s …on the flop.
I hope this helps a least of few of you in my Hollywood Poker family out – after all, that’s what family for!
~DottieDanger
Submission #3
I'll never forget the first time my grandfather taught me how to play Rummy 500. Those earlier games probably made me the poker player I am today. He is definitely where I get my gambling bug from! The second I would run up those stairs to his Queens apartment, he would have the cards already shuffling and the poker chips clinking hard against the table wood.
"C’mon sonny boy. Sit down and let’s play a few hands," he would remark. I am almost positive that some early games when I was six or seven he would let me win by throwing the good cards to me so I could win. We always would play for a few bucks, he would always let me win and pay up. But then as I got to be around 10 or 11, he would start to play for real and kick my butt at the rummy games. So one day I asked him if there were any other poker games he could teach me. He looked at me, smiled, and said the only and best poker game he could teach you is Texas Hold’em. I was like, what in the world is Texas Hold’em - do you have to travel to Texas to play it? Do you have to hold the cards behind your back or below your waist? He started to teach me about the blinds and the betting and the flop, 4th street, and the river - I was instantly hooked - never would I care about playing rummy and trying to meld three of a kind, four of a kind or straights or flushes to make points.
At first my grandfather taught me the basics: what cards to play, what cards to fold - and then how to bluff. He was very good at bluffing, usually he would make me laugh, and I would forget about what cards I had and end up going all-in only to lose to his monster hand. For my grandfather, I thank him for all the valuable time and lessons about Hold'em - and I still have so much to learn about the game!
~ERodaman
If this is your first time voting, all you have to do is read the submissions and then vote for your favorite one in the poll. One lucky random voter will score HP gear and the player with the most votes gets a HP tournament ticket. :happy:
This week's finalists:
Submission #1:
Aloha Fellow Poker Pal's,
I was born and raised in the State of Hawaii on the Island of Kauai and I have to admit, I was pretty lucky.
I grew up with an ideal that the world and all people in it were good and honest. Well, as I grew up I came to understand that my belief system might not be too correct. Even so, I still choose to look at the good in people and not all that might not be perfect.
I later married and had three of the most beautiful children God ever put on this earth and they were my life, my inspiration and my soul. When my children were 13, 9 and 2 they were taken from me in a drunk driving car accident with their father who at that time was my ex-husband. My ex was driving and was also the one who was drinking.
After that loss, I became very angry and that old feeling of the world being a bad place all came rushing back to me almost over night. I went to bed and stayed there for almost one year. It was about that time that I came across an online poker site and I began to play. Threw that site I formed a friendship with a girl and we started emailing one another. It was because of her that I made the choice to get out of bed and live for my children so they would always be remembered. So I guess in a way poker saved my life and now it is my most favorite way to spend my free time. Until I found that poker site I had pushed everyone and everything out of my life and all I wanted was to die. One day I found myself looking forward to playing poker and I had not looked forward to anything in a long time.
Here I am 6 years later and I have a life that I never thought I would find again or even want. I still play poker everyday and I love it more and more each time I play.
I am glad to be apart of the Hollywood Poker Family!
~ChicksWhoRip
Submission #2
My mother, sister, brother and I didn’t speak for a week after an ill-fated Scrabble tournament – when we play poker together, its full-out war. Consequently, we don’t play often, but some masochistic impulse drives us back to the tables for the odd trash-talking, pride-crippling, and sometimes, bankroll beneficial poker.
Since most of us love our families and want to share some golden moments without the blood shed, I have devised a list of helpful tips for playing poker with family.
- Refrain from responding to every instance of smack-talk with “Yo momma!”, as your mother may not take kindly to it.
- Do not succumb to threats from siblings or parents to disclose confidential and potentially harmful information to the affected parties. Remember, despite what the fact that your father knows about your tattoo and has manage to stay tight-lipped about it until you tell your mother yourself (10 years from now, after you have moved a safe 300 miles away as opposed to the accessible 5 miles that separates you now), your mom is still harboring the delusion that your father is attending those sensitively training courses once a week and not pissing away valuable brain cells and money at the pub with his friends.
- Your older brother may have been able to beat you up when you were a feeble 5, but that gym membership as paid off and they don’t call you ‘Quad Queen’ for nothing.
- Any inter-familial guilt-trips are akin to cheating or collusion and any attempt to use said device – especially by the mother-figure – should result in the player being banned from the table and sent for pizza and beer, on them.
And finally…
- In my experience, if you want to avoid physical injury and limit the personal affronts all together, play at HollywoodPoker.com. There are other players to divert you and no chances of your sister giving you an atomic wedgy when you beat her pocket K’s with trip 4’s …on the flop.
I hope this helps a least of few of you in my Hollywood Poker family out – after all, that’s what family for!
~DottieDanger
Submission #3
I'll never forget the first time my grandfather taught me how to play Rummy 500. Those earlier games probably made me the poker player I am today. He is definitely where I get my gambling bug from! The second I would run up those stairs to his Queens apartment, he would have the cards already shuffling and the poker chips clinking hard against the table wood.
"C’mon sonny boy. Sit down and let’s play a few hands," he would remark. I am almost positive that some early games when I was six or seven he would let me win by throwing the good cards to me so I could win. We always would play for a few bucks, he would always let me win and pay up. But then as I got to be around 10 or 11, he would start to play for real and kick my butt at the rummy games. So one day I asked him if there were any other poker games he could teach me. He looked at me, smiled, and said the only and best poker game he could teach you is Texas Hold’em. I was like, what in the world is Texas Hold’em - do you have to travel to Texas to play it? Do you have to hold the cards behind your back or below your waist? He started to teach me about the blinds and the betting and the flop, 4th street, and the river - I was instantly hooked - never would I care about playing rummy and trying to meld three of a kind, four of a kind or straights or flushes to make points.
At first my grandfather taught me the basics: what cards to play, what cards to fold - and then how to bluff. He was very good at bluffing, usually he would make me laugh, and I would forget about what cards I had and end up going all-in only to lose to his monster hand. For my grandfather, I thank him for all the valuable time and lessons about Hold'em - and I still have so much to learn about the game!
~ERodaman