WSOP – the F-Train effect
Remember way back, Mr. Peabody. Yes, Sherman, I do. It was the year of LasVegasVegas and Dr. NO Pauly reporting on the WSOP. We all sat there doing page refreshes. Pauly wasn’t getting refreshed. He was round-the-clocking it or close to it. I had broadband but it was a whopping 786 which didn’t beat dial up by all that much.
The next year was the year of the independents. Pauly’s hit rate had been noticed and all the true commercial entities were there with their cameras and people. That might have been the peak in some minds. You certainly had options galore.
The next year was the year of the registration line and exclusivity. Lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth. I chipped a few over that myself. This was also the time we found out what a Ports Bill could carry onto our shores. Yup, UIGEA and my start as a paid blogger. My timing was as impeccable as my running an underpair against the big blind.
Tempus does it fugiting and I’ll fast forward to today. This year (and last year close to it), I just don’t get as excited. Part of that is the start time. That’s usually 4 P.M. Here and I’m ready to give the Internet back to the masses. So, I do my reading about it the next day.
I just got done reading Day-1 of the HORSE event. That was done by F-Train and a darn nice read. But it was as much or more a read of the man’s significant skills than it was player skills. I’ve the feeling that, if he had a bit of help, it came by way of a myoptic intern. I sort of picture a pillar-to-post existence much like those tracks the other F-train is forced along.
I am not complaining about the author. I am wonder just how far cutback took PokerNews. Like ESPN it seems they are giving selected tournaments the real coverage. The original one man wrecking crew of reporting was able to offer greater detail. That probably due to distance as much as anything.
F-Train is doing great writing. It is far superior to Brit “Humour” using very weak puns for the most part.
I am not really complaining here. Just remarking.
ADDENDUM:
In the old blog I was belabored with phony links. I could get a dozen or more a day. Happily, they haven’t found a way to fill my comments with them. Instead, I’ve been found by the aggregation monkey. Not sure if that is an improvement or not. But, they are fewer for the moment.
WordPress doesn’t like the paragraph markup. I put spaces between paragraphs and it axes them. They show up right in my RSS view of them in the same browser processing. I’m looking for but not finding a fix.
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There you are.
My google reader wasn’t showing any of your updates. I made my way here, though, and then went back and deleted the old Poker Perambulation and resubscribed to this one.
I also wasn’t getting your new posts. I’m trying to fix now.
-DrC