Posted by Johnnymac 10:36 PM
And so, the Poker Blog is born.

Fro and I were talking one day about my whole blog habit and we both agreed that a blog that's solely about poker might be a good idea. So we're going to try it. I can't promise it will be great and I can't promise that it will last, but I think I'm going to have fun with it.

Now, to be honest, this thing is probably more for me than it is for public consumption, but at the same time one of the things that I really like about the other blog is getting feedback from people reading what I have to say, so I'm going to throw it out into the ether and let my thoughts go where they may.

You may be wondering how I got here. Good question. When I was in college we used to play what we called "poker" but what really was really just an excuse to sit around a table and drink cheap beer, the first time I ever got drunk in my life was in one of these games during my freshman year, and the games we played weren't much more than simple things like (bad) 5 card draw and Acey-Ducey. Occasionally we would play 7 card stud, which we called "4 up 3 down", and the most one might lose in such a game was probably $10 (we were poor kids and that seemed like a lot), but really wasn't poker. And if you think that's the type of game I'm going to talk about here, you're half-wrong.

But those types of games are just about the way that anyone and everyone gets introduced to the game, and when I moved to Houston I played in a few such games, and began to organize my own on occasion , and my hobby was born. After a while the wild home games started getting a little bit slow and too far between so I gradually got into some of the more serious regular games that are spread around town in the totally illegal but totally ignored cardrooms. Nowadays I'm usually going to be found playing 3-6-(12) Holdem at the Friendship Club or 1-2 pot limt holdem at the Top Hat Club. I'll also enjoy playing in many of the low-limit holdem games in Vegas whenever I go and in fact, that's all I do when I go to Vegas nowadays - no more blackjack or craps for me unless I'm really drunk or bored or don't feel like flushing my money down the toilet the easy way. We still play at home a lot too, I often get invited to play with friends whenever they have games of their own, and I also play in some of the occasional tournaments that are springing up right now thanks to all of the poker on television nowadays (more on that to come).

What am I going to do in this space, you may ask? Quite simply, I am going to write about poker: I'll probably write a small after each time I play, I'll link to articles that might be interesting, and, since I find myself thinking about poker a lot lately, I'll probably just share these thoughts whenever they're bouncing around in my head. I might also invite some friends to be regular contributors, too - who knows.

But no matter what happens - I think it's going to be fun.

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