A Garlicy Take about Modern Online Poker
By: GarlicButter

    Ever since the downfall of the big three poker sites in April, 2011, American online poker players have been misplaced. Some have just not played online, choosing instead to go to playing more live. Others have chosen to play on some smaller networks. I have chosen to try some of the different smaller networks.  
  
    I started playing on many different skins of the Merge network, and on minted poker, and cake poker. The Merge netork has managed to gain the most traffic of the American friendly networks, havin many different skins including.. Read More

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Re-Entry Tournaments and
the Poker World Today

By: Garrett Lang

    Re-entry tournaments are becoming more and more popular as the years go by, but are they honestly good for the poker economy? Well let’s start by explaining what a re-entry tournament is. This style of tournament differs from a re-buy tournament because you don’t have the option to re-buy when you have the starting chip stack or less. Instead, you must first lose all of your chips before entering back in and some tournaments make you wait until the next day to re-enter.

    The theory behind making re-entry tournaments available for the “Average Joe” and professional players is to lower the buy-in and allow multiple re-entries, but doesn’t that benefit the professionals? 
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What You Thought Was a Safe Bet
By: Team StealingBlinds

    April 15th, 2011. This day became known as “Black Friday” and put a halt to online poker in America. Poker players around the United States signed on to their favorite poker site only to see this message, “This domain name has been seized by the F.B.I.” Many were confused, shocked and were virtually clueless as to what would come next...  Read More




   POKER STAKING 
     WORLD EVOLVING  
By: Justin Doyle

    With Players Funds still stuck on several online poker sites, the poker world has suffered tremendously due funds being stuck online as well as one less avenue of income. Many Players used online as an extra form of income, now that that avenue is now closed for American players, it affects not only the American players that can't play online but it affects players throughout the world you may of had Make-up in those American horses. What is Make-up?

    Well in the poker world it is not uncommon for a profitable poker player to look for assistance in getting funds necessary to play either bigger or something the player might not be financially ready to take on their own.  On Stealing Blinds Forum we refer to make-up as "Donkey Dollars", in which when you stake someone and they lose then that money is now
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