Welcome to HORSE poker Challenge. This is a new blog charting the success and pit falls of two like minded, beginner poker players trying to make the big time.

Your bloggers are Owain aka Squirrel who’s been playing poker for nearly a year now and has entered a few tournaments, he has the knowledge of the games and will be helping us understanding the many terms and facets of poker. Also we have me, Mike aka Monster, I’m quite new to poker online. I’ve played at home for nearly a year with friends and dabbled with the online free play games to get a feel for things. I’ll be blogging from the beginners view to online poker.

So what’s the challenge then? And what’s HORSE poker I hear you ask? Well we’ll go into more detail about what it is in future posts but basically H.O.R.S.E.  is the King of Poker Games. It stands for Hold’em, Omaha, Razz, Seven-card Stud High and Seven-card Stud High-Low Eight. Five different versions of poker all played in the same game, alternated after  a set period.

The Challenge? For us to learn the five versions of the game, earn some money to enter a few tournaments and the ultimate challenge.. Get a place in the World Series Online Poker Tournament in 2009!

We’ll be blogging our experience here and you can read all about our joys and sorrows! Maybe you’ll even join us on the challenge too . We hope to build a poker community that can learn from one another. We’ll be setting up private tables for the members of this blog so we can get to know the people we’re playing with. Something I’ve noticed about the big casino tables is you don’t ever see the same people very often and you pretty much on your own, we want to change that.

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