Scanning the Poker Blogosphere

Back blogging again and of course one of the interesting things is finding other blogs on the same topic and/or finding bloggers with similar outlooks.  For the moment, I think it’s easier to find the former rather than the latter given my new found desire to treat poker as a fun hobby and not take it so seriously!  The first blog I was keen to link back to was LuckyStraights, I always enjoyed Lucky’s blog in my previous “poker life” and it was great to see she was still playing and blogging.

I’ve just subscribed to a new blog via LuckyStraight’s blogroll – specifically Poker and the Life I Live by Dashornman.  What really interested me about this blog was that Dashorman seems to be playing professionally by massively multitabling and playing thousands and thousands of hands at micro – 25nl and 50nl – stakes.  I’ve never really thought it possible to make any sort of a living at those levels so its fascinating to see someone living the dream and actually supporting themselves.  It leads to the old dilemma … if you are in it for the money (and of course despite the fun brand here, you can’t deny a large part of poker will always be the money!), are you better playing fewer tables well, or many tables not so well but making more money by sacrificing reads etc for volume?

I went through a period a few years ago where I thought about trying the volume option.  At the time my thinking was I was a reasonable player, but didn’t have the time to really put in a lot of study.  Would it be better therefore to accept the standard of play that I could achieve, and aim to make money via volume?  Of course the other attractive angle to this is rakeback – in some ways if you play enough volume and break even on the felt you still come out way ahead with the rakeback payments.

I never quite gave it a decent go, and I’m not really considering it now … but I’m certaintly interested to follow players like Lucky and Dashorman and see how the other half lives