A Winneronline interview with editor Michael Caselli gave a mouth-watering
sample of what poker fans can expect in the new Bluff Magazine, due
for launch soon.
Bluff is a poker lifestyle, 100 pages, full size glossy magazine that
will run initially to 90 000 issues.
Caselli rightly says, "Poker is really hot right now, people
love it! We’re in the middle of a Poker Revolution. So we’re
aiming Bluff at the poker enthusiast. We focus on the lifestyle, no
one else does.
"We’ve got things like “A Day In The Life Of
A Poker Player” where we talk about the poker clubs and the
night life around it. “How To Read Your Opponents” is
another feature of ours. We’ve got detailed, hand-by-hand analysis
of a typical game with card shots so you can get into the head of
each player to see why they are making their decisions.
"We’ve also got interviews with celebrity players
in every issue. The celebrities are seriously into poker. Ben Affleck,
Toby McGuire, Lou Diamond Phillips, they’re regulars. Our first
issue interview will be with James Woods. He’s the real thing!
He’s a graduate of MIT so he’s got the numbers, he minored
in Psychology so he knows how to read the players. He’s got some
great stories: how he got into gambling, into poker. It’s a full
five pages and that’s after we cut it back."
The magazine is bi-monthly and will run in the months opposite stablemate
Gambling Online Magazine. Sounds good to us.
Mention of Gambling Online Magazine prompts an interesting postscript
to this story by Bluff Media president Eric Morris. The magazine's Reader's
Choice awards have apparently triggered a record 35 000 votes this year.
Eric says there are likely to be a few surprises amongst the awards,
but he's not saying what they are. Readers will have to wait until November,
when the results of the popular poll will be revealed in the Yearbook
Edition and online at www.gamblingonlinemagazine.com.