The World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (#WBCOOP) is back

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Finally the time has come that we non sense writers can show our donk equity at the poker tables! Just kidding, of course ... but it's always fun and an interesting competition. As usual in the last few editions the restricted Freerolls give away tickets for the Spring Championship of Online Poker ("SCOOP") where you can bag in more cash, it is a tough grind through heavy fields though.

There are also specific restrictions on how to get the tokens, this time a blog entry containing at least 500 words is mandatory and furthermore there will be a special WBCOOP Best Blogger prize worth up to $5000 available. Given my usual lack of time and the fact I never keep much of a roll on Pokerstars, these events are an opportunity to play there again.

Luckily all blogger tournaments also take place at a time when I am not away for a live event coverage (even though the last one is March 4th and I have to head to the UK on the 7th) and thus I better get this blog entry done to apply for the tokens ;) There will be a total of 30 events and I probably gonna skip the No Limit Omaha (ever played that? it's even more fun than bingoooooo) and the Badugi ones, the late tournaments start at 6pm EST and that's midnight German time ... glad I am used to Canadian work hours anyways.

What would I actually do with $5000? Since I am getting more and more addicted to photography during the live event coverages, I could use some of the money to buy 1-2 lenses for my Canon or another body. I would obviously also keep a portion on Pokerstars as well to play some PLO8 and Seven Card Stud when I have free time, because that is about the only place on the world wide pokernet where you can find an okay traffic for those games with enough tables available.

I haven't played much poker lately, but it's similar to biking: You may need some practice but never forget the basics ... everything else comes automatically. After a closer look I also gonna skip the Triple Stud and PL 5-Card Draw as well, I don't like the 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball as part of 8-Game but it's also the most mind challenging game besides HORSE and thus I definitely want to play in both of them. 

The sharing with friends and in social networks is the more easy part these days because you can easily implement apps and this one goes straight to Facebook and twitter as well. Now I just need some luck and good timing in the tournaments once the tokens get approved and I will hopefully soon post further blog(s) about the results in the blogger events. About two and a half weeks until the next live event coverage, time to start planning in advance :)

Best of luck to all other bloggers out there who also gonna compete in the events, unless of course you are on my table.
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