Angst... and Youth Specialties
I had a pretty sweet opportunity tonight... it included the opportunity to win $5,000.Last week I qualified to play in a poker tournament at a club downtown with a prize pool of $10,000 paid out to the top four finishers. I did this by finishing in the top 4 of 30 in a satellite tournament. All this has been done as a promotion - nobody has had to put up a dime to play in these tournaments. Sponsorships and the like have made it all happen.
So at 6pm last night I sit down with 100 other players all playing for a first prize of $5,000 - free. To make a long story short, I got pretty unlucky... and finished 6th. 6th! I would've rather had finished 100th! I got a t-shirt and a deck of cards. Are you kidding me? 5th place was a set of chips (about a $130 value), and the top four paid out $5k, $3k, $1500, and $500 respectively. Talk about a disappointment. Well... at least I didn't lose anything.
Except for some sleep that is. This post is coming in the middle of the night as you may have noticed. I didn't get out of the club until 2am. At 9am this morning, I will be taking off from Colorado Springs airport and flying to Atlanta for the National Youth Workers Convention. I love these things. They pack 6,000 youth ministers into a convention center and downtown area. My favorite part of it all is looking around and thinking, hey, there's a bunch of people just as weird as I am here! I am very much looking forward to the resources that I will acquire, the connections I will make, and the excitement and passion that I will be coming home with.
So, pray for me - and I'll talk with you Wednesday and let you know how it went!
posted by Devo @ 2:54 AM
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