Mike Johnson History Buff

Earlier this week I received something unexpected in my mail. As usual there were the credit cards bills, advertisements for credit cards, more advertisements that looked like real credit cards, and the obligatory get out of debt newsletter. One piece of mail stood out from the rest. It was a magazine of some sort enclosed in a black bag. My first thought was "Sweet, free porn." Afterall I have been and always will be a fan of free porn. My hopes were slightly elevated when I ripped open the black bag and saw a woman smiling on the cover. My expectation level rose even higher when I saw the name of the magazine was "Party Life". Then my dreams of free smut were dashed when I noticed a pair of PartyPoker.com logos on the cover.

Evidently PartyPoker had sent me a free issue of their brand new magazine in hopes of either getting me to play more often at their site, or maybe just to tease me with the hope of free smut. Regardless of what their intentions were, I felt oblige to read through the magazine. As you might guess, PartyLife is basically a multi page advertisement for everything relating to party poker with a few interesting articles and interviews thrown in to add legitimacy.

One thing I found interesting about the magazine was it's listing of top PartyPoker.com tournament players. I'm not really sure what criteria is used to rank the players but, truthfully, I don't care. All I cared about was reading the net handels of some of these players. Some I thought were kind of interesting, and some I thought were even more interesting and deserved an almost witty comments by me.

3. SevinFigures
6. JJsGramma
9. scrubs729 (not sure if this guy is a fan of the show, but I am)
11. TheAsgard (he could be a mythology profesor at Harvard but more likely he's a big fan of the Thor comic books)
14. Burrito4Me
18. VolumeOverSkill
29. tblcaptain (I love watching players with self promoting names make donkish plays. Oh how I love sweet irony)
41. BvlyHls90210 (what a classic show)
46. DwightSchrute (Speaking of classic shows, the Office is freaking great)
49. MrChipLeeder
51. ChipVacuum9 (I honestly wonder if there are 8 other ChipVacuum(s) and if there are, they should get together for a sit n go)
74. OMGRigged
76. Wealthyfish
77. RissingShark (look at the names for 76 and 77 again and tell me there isn't something a little too perfect about those rankings)
86. daviDBlaine9 (really? there's nine people out there that like david blaine. That many?)
94. LoveMILFs (Amen brother)
99. munee4nuthun

I'm kind of interested to see if I get another issue next month. I have a feeling that future publications will only be available in card rooms kind of like how cardplayer and bluff started out. If that is the case then I will be curious to see how many people would grab a magazine in a black bag in the middle of a busy casino card room without blushing.

Later
Mike