Blind Straddle Poker Magazine

Tourney Tracks

TourneyTracks.com launched earlier this month, and word is spreading from player to player at the tables. The site tracks upcoming tournaments in North America, including any single tournament with an entry fee over $1,000 and any series containing more than three events with buy-ins over $200. In the past, touring...

Loving Las Vegas

Three weeks ago I moved to Las Vegas. Since this is a profound event, I am deviating from my usual practice of providing hard-hitting poker and fashion tips in favor of some personal reflections on the one long session of my life. Many authors have played with the idea of...

Excerpt from The Poker Party is Over by Alan Schoonmaker

by fox on Feb 3, 2012 • 2 Comments

The Poker Party is Over: What will you do now? Helping players to answer that question has always been my primary teaching objective. Of course, before you can answer that question, you have to ask it, and far too many players never seriously ask it. Instead of analyzing their own...

The View From the Donk’s Seat: Style

It’s all a matter of style. Some of us have it, and some of us don’t. Some of us, who do have style, really need to rethink the choice that we made… I think of myself as having a conservative style of play. The truth is, I have been consistently playing too tightly. The other...

March Madness

Your old buddy Karl was in Vegas for March Madness playing some cash games. I bet on sports a bit, but I can do that with a bookie that lives down the street from me and get better deals than I get in Vegas, so I was really just there for the cash games. The...

Some Basketball Teams Don’t Care

As the pro and college basketball seasons wind down, it’s important to look beyond statistics and keep in mind the psychological well-being of teams. A person at a job who is happy and motivated is a good candidate to give 100% effort every day. Another person at the same company who does not enjoy their...

A Day in the Life

Wake up at the crack of 10:30 to the birds in the courtyard. Coffee, orange juice, bagel and cream cheese. Computer on, weather forecast perfect, five on the interest list for the Venetian 8/16 half-kill Omaha-8. I phone the poker room to get on the list. Twenty seconds later I hit F5 and giggle. The...

From the Editor

Welcom to the Valentine’s issue of Blind Straddle. Our wives have informed us that playing in the Partner’s tournament at our local cardroom on Valentine’s Day instead of taking them out might result in our record-breaking streak of waking up with both our eyebrows coming to an end. So we’ve decided to talk about poker...

Tournament Roundup – Brought to You by TourneyTracks.com

So the folks at Blind Straddle asked me to do a review of the recently announced schedule for the World Series of Poker. This should be super fun, since I have nothing better to do today than look at 61 poker tournaments and write something about the list. Great. But Tourney Tracks offered to sponsor...