Chris Halverson’s Blog

From Tao of Poker:

and the one and only professional poker player Chris Halverson. I thought I was seeing a ghost. A blast from the past.

It took long time friend and blogger Pauly to pull me out of retirement and play in a blogger tournament. As a world reknown Professional Poker Player(TM) I have been keeping a low profile as of late, where “late” equals “about 18 months”. When you reach the pinnacle of the poker world, the $200 NL on the late Party Poker, there’s really not much left you can look forward to. So I took a break. However, when I saw that Pauly was celebrating his 5th year of blogging with this tournament I decided I had to show my support, so I quietly signed up. It took about 45 minutes and then I was recognized.

Fear suddenly rippled through the tables.

About this time my friend Jason stopped by my house and sweated me and helped a bit, including chiding me for my trademarked weak tight play. Some plays were made and I stayed about average through the next break.

All in all it was a great time. In the end I saw this pop up:

Tao Poker Result

So I got in the money for $9 (woot!) and outlasted over 450 people in my first tourney back in a long time. Not too bad, and even more importantly, I had some fun.

I’ll update more shortly, I think I’m going to try to resurrect this blog a bit and see what happens.

Thanks Pauly for the 5 years of great posts and for the fun tourney.

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