i keep try'n and play'n, try'n and play'n more and more, and today, gave me a small but wonderfull reward.

My name is John Farr, i'm almost 60 yrs old, and i never played poker till about 2 yrs ago, when i lost both of my legs, very high above my knees, and though many would see my loss as a negative, i've taken the negative out and replaced it as one huge Positive in my life, as i never gave up try'n at winning my life's biggest goals!! Very weakened, to fat, and to ugly to do much of anything, and 66 day's after losing my last leg, i crawled on a board to get myself up in my Caravan, turned around facing the rear, reached out, and manually hand picked my wheelchair up and stored it in behind my front passenger seat, used a stick to hook onto the sliding door, and closed it, then slid on the board from the passenger seat to the drivers seat, and been still driving as i've always done all my life... this feat took 2 main ingrediants to accomplish this... Never Give Up Try'n to overcome and GOD!!! For without GOD, i don't think i could do this!!

What does that story have to do with Poker, one might think... Well it has every thing to do with poker, as like i still am today, you just got to keep on play'n and try'n, and many a time, i've said; GOD PLEASE HELP ME HERE A BIT, and believe it or not, i've been answered quite a few times, by winning some tight hands... Today, 2/12/08, i was in an online cash poker game at Poker Stars, and i do have a Railbird picture in my circle, and here's what took place after 4 1/2 hours of play'n;
PokerStars Tournament #77091323, Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo
Buy-In: $2.00/$0.20
505 players
Total Prize Pool: $1010.00
Tournament started - 2008/02/12 - 12:30:00 (ET)

Dear john's way,

You finished the tournament in 7th place.
A $32.83 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 114.85 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

NO, it's not much money, surely no brag'n right's here, excepting the fact, a reward for a lot of "NEVER GIVING UP TRY'N", and i'm not a braggart anyhow... just 1 poor ole dumb country boy, is who i truly am... in ending this small piece of writing to you; keep on play'n and try'n, and Never forget, GOD wants to help you too, but ya got to ask HIM for HIS help, as HE never volunteers anything to anyone!!! GOD BLESS YA ALL, john's way