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I've had this site for a few months, and first just allowed it to sit and gather dust just because I wanted to reserve my favorite poker alias as a domain name. Then, a couple of weeks ago, after mulling it over for quite some time, I decided to jump into the fad of poker blogging. Don't ask me why. It isn't like I really have anything to say, especially after the implosion of my bankroll. But maybe someday I will.

But that isn't all I would like to do with this site. I'm not exactly sure what else I want to do, but I certainly don't want it to just be another blog.

One idea did come to mind tonight. I got to searching www.homepokergames.com to see if I could find any games within an hour's drive, but since I live in a very rural area, the search was fruitless. There are quite a few games listed for Kentucky, but most of them are at least a two-hour drive from me. That isn't bad on occasion, but it's not something I want to do regularly.

But, I also know that folks in my area do play cards. I just never seem to know where or when. I used to play in a very nice game. It was in a good location and we had been playing long enough to have gained a decent stable of regulars, as well as a growing list of people who would come in to play on occasion. But, all that came to an end when we lost our access to the place where we held the game. We have attempted to start another game or find another one, but it's been slow going.

Anyway, I am more than willing to let this site serve as a listing for games in my immediate region, Eastern Kentucky. There are plenty of other places to go find games in Lexington and Louisville, so i want to restrict the listings to games in the eastern third of the state, or pretty much everything east of I-75.

If you have a game and you'd like to find some players, drop me a line and I'll get your info in my next post, plus I'll create a new page of the site just to list all of the games, so folks can find them without having to scroll back through the entire blog. Just drop me a line at evilbilly@evilbilly.com with all the info.

Some of the things you will definitely want to include are:
• Location - City or county will do, maybe both if your game is at some wide spot in the road nobody's ever heard of. You can post the specific location if you like, but I cannot be held responsible if you have 200 people show up at your next game and you only have seats for 10. Unless you're confident you can handle anything that comes your way, you better be general and let folks contact you to get more info.
• Day - I prefer you submit games which occur with some regularity -- weekly, monthly, daily. I will post one-time events in the blog, but there's really no sense in putting them in the permanent list.
• Time - You'll want to list both the time you start and the time you end or stop accepting new players.
• Game - Hold'em, Omaha, five card draw, seven card stud, etc. Also, be sure to specify if it's a high-low split.
• Structure - Ring game, tournament or both.
• Limits - Let everyone know if you're playing penny poker, a quarter game or $20/$40. Or if it's a tournament, tell us the buy-in. Also, let us know if it's limit, pot-limit or no-limit.
• Contact info - This could be an email address or a phone number. I will include other means, such as pager numbers or AIM, ICQ or Messenger info, but you should know that you'll get more response from email or phone.
• Rules of etiquette - Unless you want half of your guests pissed off, you better let us know your rules about smoking and drinking. Personally, I'll play under any conditions if the game is right, but others aren't so tolerant.
• Anything else you want to add.

Hope to hear from you soon.