Finally…
…not only did I make the final table this time, but I made some money (nothing major), but it feels good to make some sort of progress (after not reaching the money in all the prior tournaments):
PokerStars Tournament #14174252, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00
Tournament started - 2005/10/23 - 18:24:21 (ET)Dear Ingoal,
You finished the tournament in 5th place.
A $4.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
…and again:
PokerStars Tournament #14178580, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00
Tournament started - 2005/10/23 - 20:05:47 (ET)Dear Ingoal,
You finished the tournament in 5th place.
A $4.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
So, you play with the real stuff, eh?
After finding it quite interesting to play in our home games (6-9 players, usually we played 5card poker, but picked up texas hold’em recently) and making the “final” almost all the time (5 out of 7) and playing online with play money for quite a while I decided to try the real money aspect - nothing major though. I deposited some cash and there’s two possible outcomes: I lose everything - fine that’s that or I win/stay even which is what I’m trying to accomplish, enabling me to continue play ;-)