My reading of RSS feeds in general, and poker blogs in particular, had really tapered off over the past few months, mainly due to having a lot of other things going on and not a lot of spare reading time.

I've recently gotten my blog reading list back in order, thanks largely to biting the bullet and switching from a desktop RSS reader to the excellent Bloglines service. Bloglines is a web newsreader, which also happens to have a lot of nice features like a mobile lightweight interface, and some little widgets for blogs as well. The mobile interface is huge for me as I travel a fair bit and use my Sidekick for casual reading. Being able to have my blog subscriptions up-to-date no matter where I'm reading from is a nice plus.

As a side effect of getting this stuff back in order, I was pleasantly surprised to find some interesting new blogs on the block.

My local recommendation is fellow Austinite Mike K, who I've known for a few years from various local games. Mike has written some great insights into his poker experiences, and has a great sense of humor and some interesting stories.

Eric, another local, has recently decided to move to Vegas and go back to playing poker for a living. Good luck, Eric, and I look forward to reading about your experiences. I gotta say I don't envy you, playing pro poker is definitely not for everyone.

I still haven't made up my mind whether or not I like Oddjack. It's a little high-volume and off-topic for me, but I find it a lot more readable than the other Gawker blogs.

Dan continues his good WSOP-and-beyond coverage with a great little exchange overheard at the series.

I forgot to add mine, from when I played. At the table next to me was Men "The Master" Nguyen and Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari. They had just gotten seated.

Antonio: Men "The Master" Nguyen. Men "The Master".
Men (happily): Hi, how are you doing.
Antonio: How does a guy get to be named "The Master" anyway? Did your parents name you Men "The Master"?

It sure cracked me up at the time.

By the way, with 10 million blogs now in the world, and seemingly half of them about poker, I get a lot of requests every week to do a link exchange or writeup of someone's new blog. I'm going to change my sidebar soon so it links directly to my subscription list on Bloglines, which means that the only way to get linked from this site is to get me to read your blog. My advice to you is to write to me after you've been at it for at least a month, and write about something beyond whether you won or lost today.

How do you get Pokerati on Bloglines? It always tells me there is no feed available.

Posted by: Matt Stephans on July 7, 2005 03:37 PM

Jeremy,

You are too kind. Thanks for the plug.

Mike

Posted by: mikek on July 8, 2005 12:58 PM

Try http://www.pokerati.com/rss/index_rss2.xml, that's the feed URL I use in Bloglines.

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