Every once in a while, someone in the blogger world will do something pretty cool, and whip out their real journalist skillz and go to town on one issue or another. And let’s face it, it’s up to the bloggers to do that in the world of poker, since the magazines and major news sources are so tied in to ad revenue from the poker sites that they can’t say shit about anything without getting their pee-pees slapped. And really, who wants a dickwhipping early in the morning?
But anyway - Amy Calistri, in addition to being voted Best Cleavage in Poker and having a cool hat, has gotten together with the Poker Shrink to write a badass series of article over at PokerNews looking into the mystery of the added $2 million in chips in the WSOP Main Event last summer. So go read their update.
Haley is another one of those real journalist types with ethics and stuff. We respect that crap in others, just don’t really have a whole lot of it ourselves. I’ve frequently found that high moral standards just don’t get you the hookers and blow like I’m into. So I have ethics vicariously through others. Haley has spent a while looking into the question of the WSOP.com website and why it has little or nothing to do with the World Series of Poker, and she’s come up with a tangled web of deceit, firings, backstabbing and moneygrubbing that totally belongs in Vegas. So go read all her stuff, too!
These are just the latest examples of the kickassery that goes on in the poker blogging world. You and I both know that you can’t get shit for real news outta Cardplayer, and Bluff’s opinions are edited (or else!), so you gotta count on the freelancers to lay it out there for ya, gonzo-style. Now these three folks ain’t exactly the heir apparent to Hunter S. Thompson, but they are some fine Woodstein-style journalists, so go show ‘em the love.