World Blogger Championship Of Online Poker (WBCOOP)

This blog is dedicated to the World Blogger Championship Of Online Poker (WBCOOP 2012). Therefore it’s also written in English, although I normally blog in Dutch and English isn’t my mother tongue.

To participate in this great poker series, organized by PokerStars for bloggers, I have to write an application and explain what to do if I win the $5.000,- prize for best blogger. So, I give it a try:

I’m quite sure I won’t win the prize, due to several reasons:

• I don’t blog multiple times a week. Although I like reading blogs from other poker-people with very interesting lifes and also interesting poker adventures, I just can’t find the right words to describe 3 times a week how I lost another $3,27 at the microstakes I’m playing at. On top of that, I really don’t have a structured poker life. At one time I think that I will be World’s best Heads Up player, and only a couple of weeks or months later I think that I can beat High stakes Full Ring Limit Holdem. So I change as often as weather does.
•  I don’t have an interesting poker life. Not flying to the Caribbean for some fancy tournament, not playing EPT or WSOP, not even a local casino tournament. I am a husband and a father with a very structured life with not much room for fancy trips, nor the money to play expensive games. I am the player who says ‘Thank you!’ to his fellow players at the table when reaching the money in a $5,50 online tournament, because they gave me a run in the Big Blind at bubble time.
•  I don’t have a big crowd, following my poker blog. In the 5 years that I’ve been blogging, I maybe have had 5 reactions to my blogs and probably had just over 1000 page views. Partly because I don’t really like to share my poker life with my real life environment, after that one time that I was on a job interview and the director had Googled me and already qualified me as a gambler and an addict before we talked one word to each other. So when people ask if I still play poker, I normally would answer that question with ‘couple of times per month’ or so.

So reasons enough to be sure that I won’t win the prize. But, what if? For one time I would try to be that very interesting poker player. I would book a flight to Vegas and invite my best friend to join me, playing life cashgames or tournaments or even a WSOP event and live life to the max for that one single week I’m in Vegas! Of course I will tell everyone, both on poker forums I’m member of and real life friends and family. I finally will have interesting topics for an everyday blog and probably have more readers in that one week than in the last 5 years together.

And after that week? I will just be the microstakes player again. Blogging every now and then, telling that I lost another $3,27. But I will be a random poker blogger with a life time experience!