Maybe NYC Poker Is Not So Dead

[shipitfish]

I've spent some time reading the blogs of my fellow NYC players lately. Having moved from Boston to NYC at the height of the poker boom, I usually felt like an outsider from the NYC poker scene. Like everyone outside of NYC, I had read Riding the F-Train, which — much to the surprise of its author — was (during 2004 and 2005) known nationwide as the NYC poker blog. It's primarily because of his reviews, which are all of clubs long since closed, that kept people reading. Having not been out of NYC for poker in a long time, I am not sure what blog is considered the quintessential NYC poker blog now.

I have lamented some that I believe the NYC poker scene is dying. It may be true, in the sense that concerns me most. Namely, as it gets harder and harder to find clubs in NYC, only stronger players will bother to find them. Thus, the games will not be as good nor worthwhile. But, perhaps what I see as death is merely a hiatus and things will eek back to normal once the police vice squad finds something better to do.

Positive thoughts about the future of NYC poker increased since I started reading more of the NYC poker blogs around. They always seemed to be hosted on BlogSpot rather than liveJournal, so I wasn't reading them regularly. I have now finally gone to the trouble to collect their RSS feeds into a single location (using a LiveJournal friends filter, for those of you who are actually LJ geeks). If you are interested, you now have a convenient way to read the NYC poker blogs that I also read. If you know of any that I should be reading but haven't added, let me know.

I should also note that I've got a review of one of the few clubs still around in the city coming soon. Finally, I have thought about maybe starting a serious poker discussion group (like the various Las Vegas Poker Discussion Groups). I haven't really figured out how to filter attendance, though. You want a group like that to have a high level of knowledge to make it useful.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

your right dude they just raided straddle one of the biggest clubs in manhattan