Poker Blogs for Backgammon Fans

In an interview to UK PokerNews, Kara Scott (the presenter of the Pokerstars European Poker Tour and an estimated poker player), while talking about her career and sharing her experiences from the recent World Series of Poker Main Event, she incidentally mentions what she calls "a massive crossover between poker and backgammon", and surprisingly, she does not talk about Gus Hansen, but about the broadcast of World Series of Backgammon on the poker channel Poker Zone.

Due to that famous crossover, poker channels and poker blogs can sometimes be a great resource for backgammon fans, and, of course, the other way around . There's always a chance to run into chat with or about a rising poker star who started out as a backgammon player and happen to have an interesting commentary on the similarities or dissimilarities between two games, plus, browsing back to October-November 2006, the time when the lights were turned off on online poker rooms in America, I'd bet you'll find pearls of wisdom such as "how come online backgammon is legal and online poker is not", and such.

And there are other examples of interesting online poker blogs. Plan3t Gong, for example, "the online poker strategy blog that likes to make you think", and if you think that poker strategy and backgammon strategy have nothing in common, check out this quote and think again: "… people play differently when they are winning and when they are losing in a session... and that this is a matter of confidence and psychology. When you are winning you are able to make decisive positive moves, you go with your 'reads' or logical deductions and make moves to back these up…" Sounds familiar? I bet so.