Excerpt from The Poker Party is Over by Alan Schoonmaker
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 play, they blame their disappointing...
Book Review: No Limits: the Fundamentals of No-Limit Holdem
Recently we were going through old issues of Blind Straddle and noticed a glaring omission in our coverage of current poker literature. We have not posted a book review of the brilliant work on no-limit cash games No Limits:The Fundamentals of No-Limit Holdem by Chris Wallace and Adam Stemple. This was a big surprise to...
Book Review: How I Made My First Million from Poker
This week we received Trii ‘Slow Habit’ Nguyen’s How I Made My First Million, and whipped through it as quickly as we could to get a review up for the November issue. Lucky for us it reads easily and comes in at a reasonable 45,000 words, so we were able to get through most of...
From the Editor:
Again with the late issue! There are really two tournament seasons that affect us here at Blind Straddle: the WSOP in July, and the even more prestigious Fall Poker Classic at Canterbury Park, MN. As you might guess, we don’t get a ton of opportunities to play higher buyin tournies with decent size fields here...
Why US Players Should Still Play Online
While there aren’t a lot of great options for a player who lives in the United States to play online poker these days, there are some very good reasons to continue to do so at least occasionally. I’ve written articles in the past about how tracking software like Holdem Manager changed the poker world and...
On the Side: Affiliate Marketing with Blue Shark Affiliates
Welcome to the first edition of On the Side, our ongoing article series about making money in the poker industry in unique ways. We’ll look at affiliate marketing, becoming a dealer or floor person, promotional opportunities, and any other way that people are making money in the poker world without cards in their hands. This...
