I must be coming up in the world

Wow. I've only been blogging a couple of weeks, and didn't think I had anybody who was intentionally coming to visit my page, when all of a sudden I get a press release from some poker site I've never heard of before.

Normally, I'd just toss this one in the trash bin. But what the hell, this is the first sign that somebody actually knows I'm doing this. That's a little bit of a pick-me-up, so I might as well repay them for that.

Be advised, I have no knowledge of this site's reputation and am not endorsing it in any way. But it's a pretty cool idea, nonetheless.

2005 Swish Poker Tour -- the First Online Poker Tour

SwishPoker.com is proud to announce the completely new and unique Swish Poker Tour! The tour will be the first ever online Texas Hold'em poker event with an ongoing point system allowing for continuous ranking of players. Say goodbye to local poker games constrained by time and available players. Modeled after the enormously popular televised poker events such as the infamous World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour, the Swish Poker Tour will have cash prizes every week, along with hundreds of other prizes. Sam Hardy, a student at Arizona State University , remarks, “It's about time somebody let us online poker players show our stuff on a tour, just like on TV!”

Have a computer? Have internet access? Then you can participate in the Swish Poker Tour. Available worldwide, the Swish Poker Tour hopes to attract players from all geographical areas. Beginning January 2005, the player rankings will be set at zero and the tour will begin. From then on, every Sunday evening at 11PM est ( 8PM pst ) a Swish Poker Tour event will be held via the SwishPoker.com software, recently voted the best online poker software! All events will be classic No Limit Texas Hold'em with a $20 buy-in. Each tour season will comprise of four events each and every month. Like typical multi-table tournaments, all events will have a huge payout for the top players, along with points awarded to all players depending on their finishing place. After the four events each month, the top ranked players in the tour for that season will be paid out additional prize money/awards. Then, the next month the tour starts all over again!

The online poker world has already grown into a huge industry in itself with over a hundred thousand players competing at online casinos each day. Long overdue is the first TOUR with ongoing rankings to reward the top players in the long run, rather than the typical one-tournament victories. PokerNews.info website owner and industry expert has no doubts about the potential success of the Swish Poker Tour, “The online poker industry is desperately in need for something that follows the structure of the television events seen every day. It'll be a huge hit!”

The primary goal of the 2005 Swish Poker Tour is to establish a strong following of 1,000 players playing consistently each Sunday night in the tour events.

For more information, visit the Home of the 2005 Swish Poker Tour :: SwishPoker.com