Selling my soul for chips

A couple of weeks ago I accidentaly joined a couple of friends playing poker (the Texas Hold 'Em kind), a game which I had never played before. After learning the basics and playing a couple of times, this past sunday evening I decided to give online poker a try. After a couple of days of not really knowing how to play smart and dropping out of a couple of freeroll tournaments, tonight (just about ten minutes ago) I managed to (with the help of a good friend with a great deal of card playing experience) make it to 299th place out of 8980 players in a $1,000 freeroll tournament. Had I made it to 260th place I would have received $1.50, and had I reached first place I would have received $134. Now I'm signed up for another identical tournament beginning in 25 minutes, so I better go out and have a smoke and recharge my adrenaline glands before it's time to get serious again.

Wish me luck.