In the Field: Elliott Sadler (cont'd)

I play online all the time on it -- in fact, I'm actually playing online this Friday night at 9 p.m. ET after we shoot Trackside Live on SPEED. And people can get on there and play any time they want to. But it's set up where if you do well in certain tournaments, and things line up right you'll get to play against us.

How do you know it's us, the drivers? You'll know because our avatar looks just like us! Eventually you'll be able to create an avatar that looks like you, too!

Each driver is going to play a minimum of an hour a week on there. I'm actually playing more than that right now, because we're having so much fun with it.

But they have weekly tournaments and tournaments at night that start every hour. A lot of times on Friday and Saturday nights I'll get on there and play a little bit because otherwise I'm just sitting on the bus at the track and not really doing anything, which is why I'll be on there this weekend from Martinsville.

A lot of the time, I'll just get on the site and just play -- a lot of the guys do. We'll just get on, and get on a table that has a free seat and just play.

I might play a couple hours a week, or three or four, depending on how I play. If I go all-in and lose, well, I don't play that long that week. But I play a couple hours a week, easy, because it's fun.

Texas Hold 'Em is taking the world by storm, man. It's crazy how popular it's become the last couple years. So we decided to get together and do this with a group of drivers that we really, really liked.

We're all really good friends, and we all can tease each other a little bit if we win, so I think it's going to be a really good deal. It will give fans another opportunity to be a part of it, and I think it's a neat deal.

I don't think any other site has this caliber of athletes involved, six great drivers working together who want to be a part of it and really enjoy participating in launching something like this.

Well, we know NASCAR fans also are card fans -- Texas Hold 'Em fans -- so why not give 'em this opportunity, give 'em something they don't have and that nobody else has.

So we decided to come up with this, and we think NASCAR fans are going to love it. I encourage all race fans to go to VLPClub.net and have access to win things money can't buy.

You'll have fun doing it and I hope you know how to play when you get there because this is as much fun as I've ever had online.

Like I said, I'll be playing this Friday night at 9 p.m. after I get done on Trackside Live, from Martinsville Speedway.