It’s Wednesday and the Joost Contest is over. I decided to take all the entrants and pit them against one another in a simulated winner-take-all no-limit hold’em tournament to determine a winner. And the winner is… Lorenz Congrats Lorenz. Enjoy Joost with your brothers. And thanks to all who entered. (Note: In lieu of simulated [...]

Last week I begged encouraged people to vote for NPA in the Best Hobby Blog category of the Bloggers Choice Awards. Thanks to your votes, NPA made it to the top of the third page, but stalled there. Let’s go for another push to get NPA onto the first page! As of now, NPA needs [...]

I have a free Joost invite to give away. For those who don’t know, Joost is like TV on your computer, it’s currently in Beta (so it’s invite-only), and it’s hot. Check Joost out. If you’d like the invite, please post in the thread I created on the message board and make sure your account [...]

Elaine nominated NPA in the Best Hobby Blog category for the Blogger’s Choice Awards. Show me some love and vote for me. I don’t know if I get anything if I win, but if I do, I’ll hold a contest here and regift it to the winner.

The first few days of action on the Message Board really surprised me. It was about ten times busier than I expected it to be off the bat. That’s great, but it was so busy that I had some trouble keeping up with all the posts. Then I found the RSS feed built into the [...]

Questions Thread #14 will be our last. I installed some message board software today, so we now have an NPA message board. You can reach it via the Message Board link in the Main Menu (which I plan on changing into a menu bar at the top one of these days). If you have a [...]

There’s some excellent software out there to help you with your poker game. Probably the most popular tool is PokerTracker, a full-featured database for your online poker hands. You probably already knew about PokerTracker. (If you didn’t, visit that link now!) Here are 5 must-have and mostly free poker tools you may not already know [...]

I’m planning some improvements and tweaks around here. First, I’m looking into adding a discussion area to replace the questions threads. It’s great that people are having discussions in the Questions Threads, but now that things have gotten livelier in there, it can get a little confusing with multiple topics in the same thread. So [...]

I’m launching a new feature today, a Poker Coach Directory. People ask me all the time if I coach, and when I tell them I don’t, they ask me to recommend someone. I know a few good coaches, but the guys I know aren’t appropriate for everyone, so I don’t always have a good recommendation [...]