Happy 4/20 to all of you. On this day, three years ago, Pokerati was born. (Ouch, my back hurts.) The World Poker Tour is celebrating by hosting a big $25,000 buy-in tournament in Las Vegas this weekend. The WPT Championsomething.

Full Tilt also went live this week in 2004, which was the subject of my very first post. My how things have changed … or not.

Here is my blogroll on Opening Day:

Click below to see some other kinda sorta interesting stories that were catching our attention in the early days, right as poker was starting to catch on. And, so long as we’re rummaging through the deep and broken archives, might as well have a listen, too, to Pokerati’s first ever podcast … (before we knew what a podcast was.)

Am thinking of taking the day off, by the way. Perhaps celebrating with a few stiff drinks, like any three-year-old should.