It just might be the ultimate dream vacation for poker lovers everywhere. You spend your days visiting exotic ports of call, sampling local shopping and cuisine and snapping pictures to hold on to exciting memories. Nights are spent in a high class poker room, playing every kind of poker game you could imagine, with games for every skill level and bankroll. You go to sleep in a comfortable cabin and rise rested and ready to do it all over again the next day. If this sounds like your game, then you should consider embarking on a poker cruise.

Poker cruises are not the newest form of cruise or vacation, but they are still exotic enough to be exciting. One company, Card Player Cruises (www.cardplayercruises.com) uses Holland America to host their cruises, a very high class cruise company. It’s not too late to sign up, they have two cruises scheduled for this year, one in October and the other in December, and their web site states that cruises start around $1,200. With ten day cruises to exotic ports like private Bahamas islands and play poker at sea, you’ll have plenty of time to perfect your latest poker system.

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