The top poker blogs in the world continue to churn out content at a steady rate. These blogs are maintained by willing and dedicated authors who are not paid for their work, usually earning money through additional writing contracts and advertising. The professional poker players who blog give a great insight into their day-to-day thoughts and the blogs below are my favourite examples of these types of post.
As a reader you can read their work for free, and learn plenty about how to play online poker effectively. It is always a good idea to read about other people’s experience of poker and pick up some good tips that you can use to improve your own poker game.
Bwin Poker Blog
As you would expect from a poker room affiliated blog the bwin poker blog really hits the spot when it comes to design and you know you are in a bwin.com site when you read the content. The blog focuses specifically on happenings on bwin.com and in particular coverage of their satellite tournament winners. The big story this month was Bibaxxxx winning the WSOP package and thus guaranteeing himself a return trip to Vegas on behalf of bwin.com, having represented the team in 2008 at the World Series of Poker also.
Bwin.com will have a specific WSOP poker blog which will be updated regularly throughout the upcoming World Series of Poker, so be sure to keep your eyes open for that.
Full Contact Poker – Daniel Negreanu
My own personal opinion of Daniel has grown over the past few months. I do feel for him because he lost his mother and I hoped we would not get a whole host of memories of his mother in his blog as this would be difficult to connect with when the majority of readers knew of her but did not have the connection a son would. To his credit, Daniel has handled his grief in a very dignified way which has certainly impressed me and I am sure his many fans.
His blog has discussed his efforts to return to being one of the best in the world at poker. He said he locked himself in a room for four days straight and only saw the room service lady. In that time he said he worked solidly on his game. His blog post said that he wanted to challenge Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey to a one million dollar no limit texas holdem freezeout match, but then revealed that was an April Fools joke!
What is very true is Daniel is going to be working extremely hard both mentally and physically preparing for the World Series of Poker. He always does and it usually pays dividends for him.
Doyles Room
The poker blog of Doyle Brunson is always keenly read, particularly now as he is on an R and R break after dental work. Doyle reports that apart from looking after his cats he is going crazy living the slow life, he is a man that is used to being in the action. In Bobby’s room he laments that games are now usually $400/$800 mixed games which is exactly 10% of the stakes they used to play. Unfortunately with Chip Reese passed away and the realities of the economic recession and the high standard of poker playing these days, it is little wonder. I wonder if we will ever see a return to the nosebleed stakes in Bobby’s room when most of the online poker action is the only place the high stakes action seems to happen these days.
Look out for more poker blogosphere updates in the near future.
By Malcolm Clarke