There is an interesting phenomenon that I’ve noticed in the poker blogging community over the past few years. And perhaps it occurs across bloglines and is not poker-centric. I call it “blogegoâ€Ââ€â€that is, the urge to blog about all things non-poker related to your (somewhat) interesting life instead of the one thing that got you blog readers to begin with. When I saw this last month, I knew I had to post something.
Another notable example of this is the lovable Quiet Lion, Richard Brodie, whom I almost hate to mention because I used to love reading his trip reports from the WPT and WSOP back in the day. Here is a great example. Now, instead of saving the food and wine reviews for the end, we are treated to entire posts about nothing else. Not saying they are bad or uninteresting, just saying I was drawn to the blog because he was doing what countless thousands of us were dreaming about, playing against the big boys week in and week out.
To a lesser exent, Paul Phillips has turned a blind eye to his faithful poker readers. We used to get this, but now we get this. But Phillips gets a pass, mainly because he\’s taken to Scrabble the way he used to play poker, and more importantly, he could give two shits.
Now I\’m not trying to say that the blogs that have always included non-poker content should draw our ire. A perfect example is Pauly, who got us to read his blog because of his great writing and goofy trials and travails as much as for any poker content. Hell, even this site has always had to feature a lot of non-poker content, mainly because the pokerati-in-chief rarely knows much about it or who the relevant players are, even going so far as to confuse the Fresh Princess with Olga Varkonyi.
In light of this growing trend, I am going to try and focus my gay, poker blog reading to more poker-focused bloggers going forward. For example, if you are not already, check out David Daneshgar\’s blog and Shane Schleger\’s blog. They are still (mostly) doing it right.
P.S. This post is missing its several blank pages between the post title and the content of the post. Dan, please insert.