Bad poker bloggers – pros who neglected their blogs

This just sucks! I was searching for top level poker pro blogs and had so many troubles collecting the Top 10, because the majority of poker pros have neglected their blogs. That’s a shame, because nowadays having a blog may be a highly beneficial brand-building tool for any person or company. It is actually not that hard to write what are your up to once a week. Even if English is not your native language.

I now present you some poker pro blogs which should not be followed.

Let’s start with the 2 sexiest poker players in the World. Former model and tennis star from Finland was just able to lament “Hello World” (actually this is a standard Wordpress post title). It could be forgiven if it was some amateur blog on Blogger.com, but in this case it is the official Blog of Patrik Antonius at his official webpage which is run by the FullTilt team. Patrik Antonius himself is busy playing poker live and online, but it seems that no one at FullTilt Poker cares either.

Another sexy poker player is the lovely Cindy Violette who had closed her official blog and moved to Facebook and Twitter. I do not understand how are Facebook Notes with almost no editing options better than any Wordpress blog at the official website. Hopefully she will accept my friendship request and I will be able to read what she is up to on Facebook.

Phil Ivey – one of the best poker players in the World – does not have his own blog either. His official page philivey.com only provides some basic information. The non-official blog run by his fans does not provide up to date information about this 21st century poker legend either. Pity, but FullTilt again did not move a finger for their top pro at the web 2.0 realm.

I guess you don't have to be a genius to understand that the majority of FullTilt pros do not have their blogs. Let’s check some of the players from the PokerStars team.

Lovely Vanessa Rousso kept updating her blog only till the end of her WSOP Europe play. And then she stopped. I hope she will continue, as the main page had been under construction for some time now. Her Myspace Blog has not been updated for a long while as well.

Clonie Gowen wrote a blog post with a bit more than just “Hello World”, but that was her first and the last one. Her personal website looks quite good, but who manages it? Clonie is still in the top poker players elite despite her lawsuits and the ups and downs in her personal life. I bet people would like to read what Clonie thinks about poker and the gambling business.

There are much more examples how poker pros start and abandon their blogs instead of spending 15 minutes per week and writing something longer than 140 symbols (they more often tend to use Twiter). Anyway, let’s read and subscribe to what we have best and hope that the pros mentioned above will understand, how important can a blog be for their personality branding. Or at least they would consult Phil Hellmuth who knows about it the most (remember Caesar costume's WSOP entrance? That was the best personality branding act ever!).