Readers, Get In Line To Thank Me

Bloggers, I'm about to make all of your blogging lives much easier. Readers, I'm about to make reading all those fun text hand histories prettier, not just on my blog but on everyone else's.

I'm using all of my latent programming skillz to teach myself Flash and create the first of many poker tools. Probably all for purchase in a nice little set :) But I'm getting ahead of myself.

The first tool will be free for all. Free hosting of your hand history videos too, if at all possible. And since you know yours truly is writing it, you know it will (at least eventually) support all games, not just Hold'em. And, although intially Full Tilt Hand History support is planned, it will likely expand to other sites as well.

Just so ya know, I'm doing this with a friend, who owns an online poker portal, BlindBetPoker.com. It's a very useful site, especially for someone just getting started playing online poker. Side-by-side comparisons of all the sites and their bonuses, poker terms defined, poker strategy articles, poker news, poker books, I could go on. Now imagine it with an additional set of tools, written by a player and a blogger, hosted and published by another site that's passionate about online poker, and designed to make our lives easier.

Imagine sitting down to write that blog post about that crazy hand. Then you remember, you go to http://www.blindbetpoker.com/, copy/paste the hand history, and copy/paste the generated link into your blog post. The movie is now viewable by any browser with Flash, and you barely had to do anything.

Now imagine all of the tools and toys I will be putting in the deluxe version. For example, the ability to write comments on a movie, like Madden on his instant-replay tool.

(Madden is an instant-replay tool. "Ya see, he was trying for the first down, there on third down...when they needed 7 and he got 5, well that's like 1 or 2 short..." But again, I digress...)

Please, please leave your suggestions below. They will all be considered -- how often do you get this kind of direct input into a new poker tool? And keep an eye on this blog and Blind Bet. There will be more coming in the near future.