I ended up placing 11th place in the National Poker Challenge league that I've been playing in. So the 60 highest ranked players get invited to a tournament for the month of June. The really cool part of this tournament is that 1st place is around $1,000 cash for first prize, and the higher up you finished for the month, the more chips you start with.

The 1st place player gets $20,000 in tournament chips, and 11th place gets $17,000 and change. 60th place gets around $10,000. It will be good to start the tournament with a lot more chips than the rest of the field. I hope I have a lot of players with low chip stacks at my table.

Tournament play is difficult. It's very hard to bluff, or get away with much. My strategy will be to play premium starting hands, raising more than calling raises. I'm really going to focus on playing good poker, and concentrate on making the final table. It will be a long day, it's on Sunday July 22nd starting at 2:00 PM. Hopefully, by the time I get home, it will be dark, and I'll be counting my winnings.