One Year Review as Editor

[creedofhubris]

I think strategy articles about lesser-known games are outstanding additions to the 2+2 magazine. Rigorous analysis of +EV opportunities is what 2+2 is all about.

[mshalen]

I would not spend too much time listening to the people that are complaining about not liking one or two of the articles that appear each month. One advantage to a magazine which contains numerous articles is that you can skip the ones you don't like and read and re-read the articles that appeal to you. When I read through a copy of Forbes I may typically read from begining to end 30% of the articles, skim through 50% and skip the other 20% based on topic or the headline. I would be surprised if any publication expects that all readers will read every word written.

[felson]

I don't know how it happened, but the magazine no longer publishes Barron Vangor Toth. Bravo!

edit: Dynasty, do you have stats on which articles get the most hits?

[SumZero]

I like the new format. Like many I like the variety of contents. Personally my biggest missing feature is archives of older magazines. I know the contract is 3 months, and that is fine, but a table of contents listing the article title and author name for past issues at a minimum would be very useful. It is hard to know to contact an author when there is no easily findable history. And I'm sure that while some authors are very glad for the 3 month only (Yao has said he wouldn't do it otherwise), I'm sure others wouldn't mind sharing their articles past the 3 months.

[disjunction]

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Honestly?

Does every article have to be a serious article about poker strategy?

If you look at the mainstream poker (paper) magazines they are full of articles about a wide assortment of things, such as trip reports and whatnot.

Even the strategy articles in the 2+2 mag are predominantly covering unpopular games.

I think the whole direction of the magazine should be reconsidered.

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Hmmm I think the magazine would be more popular if there were an NVG element to it. But I don't know if the goal of the magazine is necessarily to be popular. I know 2+2 has it's standards on things, and if that's the case, I think the magazine is very good as it is.

In practice, I wonder why I don't read it more. I guess I get my fill of strat from the strat forums. The articles definitely have their place in that they have the math that would be overkill for an everyday strat post, and it would suck if there weren't a place for those who want to do rigorous math. And there always seem to be a couple of articles with good insight on a game I play. So I definitely think the magazine is a good thing to have that rounds out this website, regardless. It is something more than its individual views. For instance, this wonderful post is oddly out of place in a strat forum, it got 12 replies in 18 hours and none for the next day and half now. It's what we say we want, but once we get it we don't want to read through it.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...=2#Post11803050

I also wonder if, on a subconscious level, I'd read it more if there were more pictures and graphics? Presentation seems to be blah.

[Niggel]

In General I really like the magazine, but I would like some more practical Acrticles where a hand is discussed from all angles to give Players the chance to see how many factors come into the decision making of a really good player.

More STT and MTT stuff please [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Ray Zee]

a good thing about the magazine is that it contains articles about lots of different gambling scenarios. each month it may have varied thoughts to interest all the different types of readers. after reading for a few months a person should gain many new ideas to think about and certainly learn some new tricks to help one make more money..

[Guruman]

i love what you've done Dyn.

[Rant]

I think the magazine has been great.

The editing could be better. It seems like there are 2-3 spelling or grammatical errors in every article.

[ReptileHouse]

I read the magazine more now than I did before you took over editing duties. I find the articles to be, in general, more useful to me. That includes the non-HE content, even though I play NLHE pretty much exclusively.