I just finished reading another poker book. It was a reread actually. I read again No Limit Hold 'em Theory And Practice by David Sklansky and Ed Miller. I've read a few of my poker books more than once and this one was worth reading again.
I originally read it around a couple of years ago around the time I started playing live $1/$2. I felt it would be a good time to look at it again with the perspective of the live experience since. As well at the time I was dealing with a live downswing so I thought it might help me focus on good play. Well the downswing ended as downswings will do; that was nice but I did want to complete the reading.
It is a challenging book. Not as hard as Theory of Poker but still not a quick read. There is a fair bit to work through and grasp and like deep stack no limit it's difficult in parts. Still it was worth getting through. I think I picked up some stuff I missed or didn't appreciate the first time around.
So that's done. I've got some other projects and reading to do before I get back to poker books. There are about 5-6 poker books at least I still want to read. So I've still got lots to get to. I want to get through at least two more this year so I will be ordering them soon.
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Well I guess everyone around poker would have seen by now what happened with Stars, Tilt, UB and the US government. I play on Stars and UB and while my bankroll is modest these sites and real money online poker have been good to me personally.
Perhaps this day was inevitable. Going back to before I played online first it was paypal cut off, then couldn't withdraw to a credit card, then uigea, party poker exiting the US, neteller going away, and so on, and now this today.
But instead of just bailing on UB and Stars I will stick it out. I logged in and played last night. Luckily here in Canada everything seems fine, just smaller. Still there were 90,000 people on Stars last night and 15,000 on UB. I lost some playing $25 NL on Stars there was a fish from Russia but I didn't quite catch enough. On UB I lost a $1 husng.
So life after USA goes on in online poker. I just realized today I'm tired of all this American drama around poker so whatever. I feel bad for the American players screwed over by their government but it's their issue not mine. Maybe now we can finally just move on.
It seemed crazy those years ago when Party exited the US leaving it to Stars and Tilt to dominate. But now it looks like they just realized the inevitable and chose to focus on the international future.
