Are these "Card Player" articles getting more elmentary?

betgo · #1 02-05-2006, 12:33 AM

Or am I getting more knowledgable.
From the latest issue:

McEvoy article

Sexton article

Scary_Tiger · #2 02-05-2006, 01:28 AM

McEvoy article was ridiculous. QJs is an insta-raise there for me. Sexton piece was fine fluff.

Tonding · #3 02-05-2006, 01:57 AM

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McEvoy article was ridiculous. QJs is an insta-raise there for me. Sexton piece was fine fluff.

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I think you misread something.
McEvoy writes it's a raise, but he should've raised a bit more, maybe.

Imo both of the articles a pretty standard and beginner orientated.

ECDub · #4 02-05-2006, 03:02 AM

Cardplayer has really adapted to the environment well. People who know a lot will get less from the magazine these days as they have to "dummy" up to reach the broader audience they now attract. Obviously the magazine is no longer just geared to those guys who used to pick up a copy at the casino on the weekends.

betgo · #5 02-05-2006, 03:09 AM

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Cardplayer has really adapted to the environment well. People who know a lot will get less from the magazine these days as they have to "dummy" up to reach the broader audience they now attract. Obviously the magazine is no longer just geared to those guys who used to pick up a copy at the casino on the weekends.

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It does seem like they have dumbed it down. Maybe for the fish who read it in the casino. Some of the other magazines are even more beginner oriented.

starvin-garvin · #6 02-05-2006, 09:10 AM

I have this issue...(McEvoy)

Eh, basically it's a whole page describing a completely non-intertesting hand, followed by... if you would've raised to 4x or 5x instead of 3x, you might have gotten him to fold the blind, but probably not... err the dude could've gotten that advice from posting a HH in the beginners forum of 2+2...

don't we want McEvoy to give us some expert analysis on interesting hands?

I don't know why i keep buying them, I have some kind of magazine addiction...

Mr. Orange · #7 02-05-2006, 03:41 PM

Sexton's articles are worthless. I can't even remember the last good one he wrote. McEvoy's columns aren't that great either("someone's raised, i folded")I've need understood the "humor" column. Complete waste of paper. Varkoni and Keller usually write really dumbed down fluff.

In general i would agree that they have dumbed it down a bit recently. I also think alot of the hand histories talked about recently haven't been very interesting either.

However:

- Tannebaum's writes good stuff
- Matros's recent columns have been interesting (he talks about alot of stuff not covered elsewhere)
- I kinda enjoy Sebok's columns.(He's basically writing about the big games from a newcommer's perspective. He is very honest about all of the mistakes makes.
- I like that they've added book reviews.

ECDub · #8 02-05-2006, 05:13 PM

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I don't know why i keep buying them, I have some kind of magazine addiction...

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I keep buying ALLIn and I keep wondering why myself...lol. I guess I'm addicted to magazines as well.

betgo · #9 02-05-2006, 05:47 PM

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I keep buying ALLIn and I keep wondering why myself...lol. I guess I'm addicted to magazines as well.

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"Card Player" is not the worst. I read some of these in the poker rooms and a lot of the articles are so elementary. I guess they have to appeal to all the new fish.

"Card Player" seems to except crap from names like Sexton and Varkonyi, as did the NYTimes until recently from McManus.

MicroBob · #10 02-05-2006, 07:24 PM

Cardplayer advertised a lot on NBC today in the championship of the PSI. They are really pushing themselves as the 'oldest and best poker magazine in America' (or something like that).
Advertising to a national audience like that just indicates that they will likely want to get more and more beginner-ish.

I read one of the Ask Fishman things.
The reader was confused as to whether his odds of hitting his flush-draw were changed because there is no burn-card online.
He said, "there are 10 players at the table and 3 community cards left, so 29 cards left. Now, do you have 9 of 29 cards that could help you or 9 of 28 cards because of a burn card. I guess what I'm asking is, do you count a burn-card like you would in a live game?"

Yes yes yes. It's a beginner's type column. But it's still embarassingly stupid in a supposedly high quality poker magazine.
It's not much better in the other mags though.

From a Q & A column with Freddy Deeb in Poker Players Magazine:

Q: Do you think dxrinking while playing is bad?
A: Very bad. Drinking is very bad when you are playing.

Q: Is the probability of getting pokcet 2's the same as getting pocket aces?
A: Yes, it's the same thing. A pair is a pair - the odds are the same. (thank god we had an expert like Deeb around to answer this complicated question for us).