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...
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 tournament pros and amateurs looking...
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 poker as a metaphor for...
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...
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...
The View from the Donk’s Seat: Basic lessons that I’m learning as I go
Allow me to introduce myself. I have “known” how to play poker for many years. I discovered it when I moved to a new school in 6th grade and started hanging out with the “wrong crowd.” (I realized early on that the “wrong crowd” was definitely my kind of people!) We would play penny/nickel poker...
