Won my first Poker tournament

Today I came first in a local poker league game. I had been looking forward to this day for more than a month.

I started playing poker after I bought the XBOX 360 and the World Series of Poker game. Then I found the National League of Poker. They conduct poker tournaments at the local pubs. About 30-60 players show up for each of these tournaments. I have come second and third many times. In fact I came third on my first day. But I could never make it to the first place.

I watched others play and read articles on the internet. Then I read the 3 volume series by Dan Harrington and the Poker tells book by Mike Caro. The books were a good start but I had to adapt to the style of the local players. The books are typically written for professional high stakes tournaments. I have to read the books at least a couple more times to grasp all that content. I also have to practice more to calculate pot odds and card outs faster so that I can observe the other players better.

But today, even with my basic level skills and some luck, I made it all the way to the first place!

Trailer of CET 96 Reunion 2006, Las Vegas

My first home video using iMovie and iDVD... 10th year reunion of the 1996 batch from The College of Engineering, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. Held at Las Vegas. Attended by Abey Mullassery, Bijoy P, Ganeshram, Girish P, Gopal Ashok, Mahesh C, Musthafa, Rajesh H, Rajkumar R, Sangeeth C, Sandeep, Shebeen Usman, Vinod Mohan, Vinod N, etc.