The column has begun

Yay! I'm now getting paid to write about poker since the column has begun. It's running in the Friday Weekend (read: Life or feature) section of the T-News. It will be interesting to see the response it will get here in the heart of the Bible Belt. I'm trying to emphasize the strategy of the game and not talk much about the financial aspects of poker. One email we received about the column mentioned that the reader was a Christian and against gambling, but is interested in reading my column because he didn't realize poker could be played just for fun or for prizes. (LOL, not that it's done that way often, by any means.) The eds decided to try it for awhile in an attempt to reach that demographic that just doesn't read newspapers -- people under 30, i.e. college kids. Maybe the Friday rack sales will spike.