Virtual Felt Blog by Brad 'Geno' Gennaro

nobody reads your stupid blogAttention cyber-nerds! Get out the smack defense because Geno is 'bout to bring it to the poker website / blog world!

Note: Those of you who know me or have read my previous posts (wait, those are probably the same people), know that I'm just a kick-back, So- Cal dude who likes stir things up, instigate harmless trouble, and get people riled up. I remind you that everything you read on Virtual Felt is just good old fashioned trash talkin'and that's it. I respect everyone who has a website, blog, gaming blog, weblog, whatever the hellthe online universe calls it now, and that is the truth. Hell, I'm creating this website instead of boozin' with my boys, so I'm the same guy that I'm gonna' tear apart in this post! Oh well (time to bail out of this serious looking b.s. disclaimer!).

Honestly, y'all, in today's tangled, intertwined World Wide Web, it seems that all of the poker websites and blogs are either one style or the other. There does not seem to be a middle-ground at all. You have the mid-life crisis poker guy (who still has never kissed a girl) who is running a poker site with the in-your-face attitude style of (speak in a lower-tone, drill-sergeant-type voice) "Listen-to-me, this-is-how-you-play-poker, I-know-pot-odds, I-shook-hands-with-Chris-Moneymaker, look-at-all-the-information-on-my-site, my-licence-plate-says-SITNGO", or you have the creepy, computer kid who started a poker blog, however, the most informative poker material on the thing is the "what-time-is-it-in-Las-Vegas" widget that is buried between two 120 x 600 Google AdSense Ads, neither of which have a color that even remotely resembles the color of the blog. The only entry on the blog is a giant photo of him and his buddies drunk in a garage attempting to play Texas hold'em with a pinochle deck.

Besides the "mid-life crisis website" and the "emo blog", there is not much to offer the poker community who is thirsty for more information all the time. Obviously, there are some really quality sites out there, and of course I'm exaggerating, but am I really that far off? Everyone knows they can always go to the legit, million-dollar sites, but people want to have a good time once in awhile and not have their skull crushed in by a boatload of poker stats, poker numbers, and start times for every five dollar sit-n-go in the next week.

The big question is what can Virtual Felt offer you, the poker player, that will have you coming back for more. I guess all I can say is that Virtual Felt is going to be different, in more ways than one.

  • Virtual Felt will be a change from the stagnant situation of today's online poker websites/blogs
  • Virtual Felt will be a change (who am I? Barack Obama?) from that stoner who spends days writing on his two-entry, two-ad page (who, by the way, somehow is listed on some "Featured Blog" compilations), only to find out that the title of his blog is "Interet Poker" and not "Internet Poker"
  • Virtual Felt will be a change from that scrawny kid who got picked on in high school, but now has suddenly found freedom of expression in a trendy poker forum because all that useless crap he spent learning in school while we were partying is now coming in handy at the poker table. The kid goes from rejected-and-neglected to accepted-and-respected overnight. The same non-football playing, American Idol-worshipping, Eagle Scout who never drank a beer is suddenly "interesting and mysterious" because he is preparing for a tournament doing yoga and drinking herbal tea!
  • Virtual Felt will be a change from the "Peter-Poker" male-groupie-type guy, who rants-and-raves about the time he met Norman Chad out on the Strip, and loves to show off a photo of he and Phil Ivey at the Bellagio, where Ivey is but a blur because his buddy took the photo as Phil was walking by. This particular guy spends 17 hours a day loading up his website with useless information such as "the 9-5 is known as the Dolly Parton", trying to give off the impression of a "poker" website, but his only real agenda is to make everybody aware that he is known by his first name by the chip runners at Bellagio (who else will listen to his bad-beat stories for an extra dollar tip?). Yes, this guy is THAT guy. THAT guy that bugs the crap out of everyone using lines like "Hey, Hellmuth, nice win over in Europe" right in front of a big crowd. Most poker pros are too laid back to embarrass the guy, so they just go along with the uncomfortable attempt at a "street-cred" half-hug while they think to themselves "get a life, bro". THAT guy that wears a hat in the Wynn Poker Room which says something along the lines of "Eat, Sleep, Breathe Poker". Everyone knows a"THAT guy", and if you don't, you are THAT guy! To their credit, a few "THAT guys" do offer decent websites, but they don't have any flavor, man, they don't have any personality, any...you know, smooth- flowin', pimped-out, Southern Cali' style that you find here on the 'Felt!
To sum it all up for ya', I plan on taking the online poker website world by storm and turning it into something legit! I mean, What happened to the days of slammin' brews, mis-reading hands, and $2,000.00 I.O.U.'s? Enough with the pansy attitudes and the gloomy, depressing material. It's time for Virtual Felt. Peace.

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