What I Do on the Internet While Waiting for Pocket Aces

I Used to Blindly Surf the Net Just Bouncing All Over the Place or Analyzing My Poker Play with PokerTracker

After the Online Gaming/Poker Hiatus (I refuse to call it permanent or a ban or illegal since the game itself is not) snuck through as a 'Midnight Rider' on the Port Security Bill my bonus chasing career abruptly ended. Like I have said before since then I have concentrated on one table at a time and just becoming a better poker player overall. So far it is working out just fine. But what do I do while waiting on those Pocket Rockets besides playing Fantasy Baseball? I used to blindly surf the net just bouncing all over the place or analyzing my play with PokerTracker. But the Bonus Chasing angle shooter in me took over. I looked around and found sites/programs to help kill the time and pad the old bank account by just doing what I would be doing anyway.

First, I started a blog. Mainly just to vent the anger over bad beats and all in bingo players. Soon I found out that writing about poker is tougher than playing poker. You have to be careful with hand analysis since you can put your foot in your mouth really quickly and you can unknowingly give away your secrets. Be careful quoting odds, outs and ROI% since those are just statitistics and there is always someone ready to shred your poor math skills. So I settled on just writing about what I see and feel while on the felt. It seems to be working out just fine. My readership has tripled since the New Year began.

Second, I wanted to expand my traffic and potential readership beyond the Poker forum crowd. They all read these things anyway and already have accounts at all of the major sites. Preaching to the choir. I wanted to expand beyond these regulars and try to attract new players to the game. So I picked out two traffic exchange sites to help bump my traffic and pick up new readers:
Blog Explosion- Offers some fun games to win credits and most of the Blogs are really good reads.
Blog Soldiers- While it does not offer games the traffic exchange rate is better and the blogs load faster.