Friday night poker was a regular guy thing for all of us. Every few weeks, we’d get 4 or 5 guys together from the workplace and have a Texas hold’em showdown. Six months ago, however, that all changed when 2 of our guys were transferred to different companies in England. We were sure that we were going to have to stop our poker games for good, until we discovered the online casino.

I had heard some rumors about playing at an online casino, but I had never tried it out for myself. The straw that broke the camel’s back, however, was the absence of our two friends. What were we going to do without them, and how would our poker nights survive? Consequently, we decided to give an online casino a try and see if we couldn’t salvage the game.

We checked out some poker blogs to see what people were recommending for sites. We had thought we could – at the very least – join a game where we were all present. However, we were ecstatic when we discovered we could design our very own poker tournament, with only the 5 of us involved. We could play and still chat to one another via a live chat like old times. The online casino also took care of the financial transactions for us!

Of course, we still meet up in the summer’s to play some live Texas Hold’em in person. However, in the meantime while we’re separated, an online casino is working just fine!