What Is Poker?
Where have I been you ask? Shit…who am I asking? Does anyone even visit this “poker” blog anymore?
I haven’t written here in 5 or 6 months. I’ve played poker barely more than that. In mid-January on a flight back from San Francisco, I had a night long layover in Las Vegas. Hit up the MGM and about $180 playing $3/6 hold’em. It was fun and I wish I’d make time to do it a little more often. I made a few rookie mistakes, but that’s bound to happen when you haven’t played poker in months. I flopped a set of queens, turned a full house, and rivered quads all on the same hand. I was called all the way by two players, even after I check-raised the flop. They even called out my hand after the check-raise, but had to call me down. I was taking their money, so I was happy.
I don’t have money at any online poker sites and without checking my records, I’d bet I haven’t played a single hand of online poker in over 6 months. I still have a couple of hundred stuck in Neteller waiting for them to get their shit together and let US players withdraw. The online poker legislation or whatever you want to call it took away my interest in playing for the most part. I still like to play, but I’m making more productive use of the time I used to spend online playing poker.
I’ll still make posts here from time to time, but I doubt you’ll ever see the posting frequency of a year or two ago.
Until next time…head on over to Card Tricks and give me some suggestions!
Poker Chip Tricks Site Has Been Sold
Any regular visitors to Poker Chip Tricks probably noticed some changes that started over a month ago. Recently those changes became even more apparent as all of the Google ads were completely removed and other cosmetic changes were made.
Why all of the changes?
I’ve sold the site and no longer own any of the domains or content. I was made an offer I couldn’t refuse and felt the time was right to get rid of the site. I’ve agreed not to come out and say exactly who bought it, but I’m very confident they’ll do a great job with the site. In the end, I think both parties received a great deal. The whole deal ended up taking nearly 4 months, which was about 2 months too long due to the lawyers battling back and forth. I learned a lot during the process and will be ready if I’m lucky enough to sell another site in the future.
I want to thank everyone who linked to pokerchiptricks.com at one time or another, which helped me get the site all the way to #1 on Google when searching for “poker chip tricks” and in the top 10 for “poker chips.”
If you’d like to help with my next site, you can link to http://docardtricks.com/ with the words “Card Tricks” as the link text. I haven’t done much with the site since it was launched, but I have a few new tricks planned which I hope to put out there soon.
Backseat
Poker will be taking a backseat for me for awhile. I just don’t care to spend as much time playing the game as I used to. When I was living alone it wasn’t a problem. It’s time to spend more time with friends and get out a little more. I’ll still try to play once or twice a week, but it hasn’t been a priority for quite a few months now and with the weather warming up I’ll be concentrating more on golf and other outdoor activities.
The blog isn’t dying, but if you’ve followed 2 Hole Cards over the last 6 months or so you probably saw this coming. Post frequency has been declining for quite some time now. Thanks for everyone’s support, but don’t count me out of the game just yet.
All In Stealing Content
The web site for All In Mag is republishing feeds of the top 200 poker blogs…without permission. I’m not linking to their site here but it’s not hard to find. Look them up and check out the Blogs section. No original content of their own. Another site called Blogs on Poker (put those 3 words together for the domain) is publishing over 200 poker blog feeds as well. There’s a crook around every corner…
Blog of the Month
I’m not sure how, but 2HC ended up being chosen as Blog of the Month over at Best Poker Blogs. It’s always an honor to get named for something like this.
Thanks for the Links
I want to say a great big THANKS! to everyone who has linked to Poker Chip Tricks at one time or another. Google finally took notice in their recent updates and PCT is now the first result when you search for “poker chip tricks”.
Stay tuned for a new site that should be ready over the weekend.
2 Hole Cards Turns 1
On October 2nd of last year 2 Hole Cards went live. It’s been a rough ride. I can’t count how many times I’ve thought about abandoning this poker blog, but I always remember why I started it. 2HC started as my personal poker journal. It helps me think out loud in a way. If my writing (and recently the addition of my brother) helps anyone else in their poker journey, it’s an added bonus. I don’t have any intentions of quitting poker, so this site is here to stay.
The most popular posts have been those involving discussions about online poker being rigged. Both of those posts must rank pretty high in the search engines. One of the things I hope for the future of 2HC is to have more strategy posts that provoke some worthwhile discussions.
Remember to “Fold’em more than you Hold’em.”
Steer Clear
I had to post this here in order to warn any poker sites out there that might run into this advertising site. It’s gam bling ads DOT com (remove the spaces). They run advertising auctions and the highest bidder gets the ad space. I noticed they were getting some good ad rates so I contacted them about getting me some advertising for Poker Chip Tricks because the site gets a lot of traffic. Michael contacted me asking for monthly page views and unique visitors. I informed him in my first email back that the stats provided by my host sucked and the numbers were way too high. So I offered him the numbers provided by my Google Ads and those by Poker Blogs Topsite which are both real counts of each page loaded. He didn’t trust the data.
Introducing…
Hi, my name is Isaac Momrik, I am Nick’s brother. I have been asked by my brother to write for 2holecards.com to add a little something new for the site. I will be sharing some of my personal tips along with some of my personal experiences for your entertainment. For my first blog I would just like to give a little personal information. I attend Saginaw Valley State University where I work with Nick for ITS. I am majoring in Computer Engineering and plan to transfer to Kettering University at the end of the school year. I am a regular player of Full Tilt Poker and I am looking to add a few more sites to my list. You can usually find me around the lower no-limit games and in all types of no-limit Sit n Go’s. Look for DigitalChip on FullTilt and stay tuned for future tips and updates on my poker life.
Why Keep Going?
Most of the time I wonder why I keep this poker blog running. I haven’t posted anything worthwhile in weeks and you could even debate that was worth anything. What do I really have to offer the poker community in this poker blog? To be fair, I haven’t played much poker in the last month or so. In a few days I’m off on a 4 day golf trip. Maybe I’ll come up with an answer when I come back. (Wow that was painful to go back and read, but I don’t feel like giving it any more thought right now.)
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