While looking for ways to win free money, I decided to check all the freerolls listed on several sites. The private freeroll section(s) are full of freerolls being offered by sponsors. One that is working well is through www.railbirds.com. After signing up, all you have to do is use the site. Post a few times on the forum for example. Then I started a blog there. I also check for interesting blog postings there and post comments.
After a while, can take a day or two, you will receive messages there on the site in your inbox. These will be invites to the freerolls they are running. The also have some low buy-in ranking tournaments. The freerolls are $200 guaranteed, first place is about $50 on average. There tends to be about 1,000 players, sometimes less, sometimes more. This means your odds are a lot better at making some decent money, compared to the small payouts most of the sites offer on fields of 2x or more players.
There are many other sponsored freerolls on the various sites. A little research will let you know how each one works.
By the way, many people wonder how these sponsors can afford this. It is very simple. They are affiliates, and have links on their site to sign up for the poker sites. Eventually some people do make real money deposits, which results in the affiliate getting some money. Same for my affiliate links here. If you want to join carbonpoker or fulltilt for example, even to just play freerolls, please use my links here.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
9/11 Remembered
I remember September 11, 2001 very well. I remember the night before. I was up all night, could not fall asleep. I called in sick to work that morning. Later that day, the attack that hit the Pentagon would have been visable to me from my office, if I had been there.
I find it very hard to watch any of the news footage of the incident, even now. I know someone that was in the Pentagon where it was hit. He lost a number of co-workers, somehow escaping physical injury himelf. Knowing myself, and my past US Navy experience, I would have tried to find a way over to help with the rescue efforst ahd I been there. Maybe that is why I wasn't? God didn't want me there that day.
It was very somber passing by the crash site every day I went in to work. Then seeing the armed soldiers all around the Pentagon parking and areas and roads.
I lost my job not too long after that, the first week of January 2002. To learn later that the most wealthy people in the company were stealing so much money that people like me were being laid off..... well, that really hurt. I (we - I have a wife and 2 kids) lost my/our home that year. If not for something God put inside me, I could have made it as far as I have so far. How can people like Bernie Ebbers steal so much and ruin so many lives? And to hope that the other big events going on(Enron, 9/11) would distract from their thievry.
By 2003, the housing market started a huge growth surge. The home I had had for over 10 years, that never went up in value, today has a market value over 2x what it sold for when I lost it in 2002. I am not sure if I can ever afford to get back into a home. I am fortunate to have a job, and parents that moved to Florida that were willing to rent their home to us. All this takes me back to that day in September.
Lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans alone were negatively affected by the events of September, 11, 2001. Many jobs were lost, legitamely, during the later part of 2001 and early 2002. It was a domino effect. I am not sure how the values of homes grew so much, so fast, while so many people were losing their jobs and/or taking pay cuts. It makes you wonder how our government handles things to protect the people. They have created a huge lower-middle class while somehow supporting a upper class system that keeps just enough rich people richer and happier.
As a Jew I understand many of the reasons behind the current war in Iraq. I wish the US got involved against Germany years before they did. As a person I have a lot of trouble with how this war is going on and on, lives being lost while we are not being fully agressive in our efforts. War is, well ... war. If we used the same plan of action(s) in WW II we might have never won.
The world has changed, has evolved. Remembering 9/11 is very personal to me. I guess now I can appreciate some of the things my parents and their parents had to deal with during the recessions and wars of their times.
I find it very hard to watch any of the news footage of the incident, even now. I know someone that was in the Pentagon where it was hit. He lost a number of co-workers, somehow escaping physical injury himelf. Knowing myself, and my past US Navy experience, I would have tried to find a way over to help with the rescue efforst ahd I been there. Maybe that is why I wasn't? God didn't want me there that day.
It was very somber passing by the crash site every day I went in to work. Then seeing the armed soldiers all around the Pentagon parking and areas and roads.
I lost my job not too long after that, the first week of January 2002. To learn later that the most wealthy people in the company were stealing so much money that people like me were being laid off..... well, that really hurt. I (we - I have a wife and 2 kids) lost my/our home that year. If not for something God put inside me, I could have made it as far as I have so far. How can people like Bernie Ebbers steal so much and ruin so many lives? And to hope that the other big events going on(Enron, 9/11) would distract from their thievry.
By 2003, the housing market started a huge growth surge. The home I had had for over 10 years, that never went up in value, today has a market value over 2x what it sold for when I lost it in 2002. I am not sure if I can ever afford to get back into a home. I am fortunate to have a job, and parents that moved to Florida that were willing to rent their home to us. All this takes me back to that day in September.
Lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans alone were negatively affected by the events of September, 11, 2001. Many jobs were lost, legitamely, during the later part of 2001 and early 2002. It was a domino effect. I am not sure how the values of homes grew so much, so fast, while so many people were losing their jobs and/or taking pay cuts. It makes you wonder how our government handles things to protect the people. They have created a huge lower-middle class while somehow supporting a upper class system that keeps just enough rich people richer and happier.
As a Jew I understand many of the reasons behind the current war in Iraq. I wish the US got involved against Germany years before they did. As a person I have a lot of trouble with how this war is going on and on, lives being lost while we are not being fully agressive in our efforts. War is, well ... war. If we used the same plan of action(s) in WW II we might have never won.
The world has changed, has evolved. Remembering 9/11 is very personal to me. I guess now I can appreciate some of the things my parents and their parents had to deal with during the recessions and wars of their times.
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