A Poker Nobody

Okay so lets be honest for a second. It'll only hurt for a bit.

I love poker. Love it like a baseball fan loves baseball, I imagine.
I don't really get baseball. It's like rounders but giant men take drugs and play it. But their fans really know a lot about their teams. They know who is the top dog. They have opinions on plays, on matches.

And no one else cares.

I know all about the top players, top stacks, top plays. I listen to to ante up, to the poker cast, the poker edge. I watch live streaming final tables, the Big Game, High Stakes and even old YouTube vids.

And I could write about how Germans and Russians are going to win more 5Ks than you could shake a fist at. I could sneer at commentators being so crap at dealing with good female poker players (gals? Really, bunner?)

No one cares.

I am a nobody in the poker world. I never played above 10/20 fixed PLO. And that was for half a minute. I knocked out Pius Heinz in a tourney. It was some 100 dollar hyper turbo but for some 30 seconds I beat the world champion. Still, I am a poker nobody.

Poker is filled with the nobodies. Poker is filled with the dreamers. Poker is filled with opportunities, moments of glory, moments of triumph. And it's done by the nobodies, for themselves. Take that baseball fans.

I'm a poker nobody. And I'm cool with it.