Poker 2.0 News

Social networks are opened almost daily. One of them survive through years while others die or is lefto in agony for some time. Actually I do not know if ChipSociety will stand against its powerful competitors. So far it seems to have only fake members and 0 blogs. Even admin does not write here, so who will be the first? ;) Quite nice features are not used well. For example CHipSociety has got internal groops by brand fans and events. They can be helpful for lots of members, but when I see 50 members it is obvious, that there is nothiung to do in any of the groups. How the situation can be changed? Just hard work gathering some members. I would organize a few contests with a possibility to win $50 for best comment, blog and most active week in groups. Some people would take that chance to earn some mone. Others who come in accidentaly will immediately notice, that this poker social network is active and would register. Also there should be some announcements in social media, as...

Charismatic poker pro Jeffrey Lisandro just invited everyone to his official Facebook Page . Thanks a lot Jeffrey and good luck Facebooking! (Hopefully you will have enough time to update your Twitter and Facebook profiles. Your friend Tony G. got the personal concierge for that, what about you?)

Can it be so bad to one of holy gaming trinity members, that executives decided to dive into online poker world? It seems it can. SEGA just opened it’s own online poker site SEGApoker.com (also casino games site SEGAcasino.com). Present players can login with SEGA Pass or register a new user account. Guess what platform they use? Not too hard to guess because it is a skin of Playtech (other rooms – TitanPoker, TonyGPoker, Bet365, Hollywood Poker and many others). When Xbox will start its own poker room following SEGA’s example? No idea. Anyway the famous brand and connectivity using gaming platform’s social application guarantee huge activity. Proved by friendship between Xbox and Facebook connect. If you have SEGA Pass, please try their poker room as well. It is 3rd biggest real money poker operator in the World.

The new year brings all poker players (those, who use Facebook, of course) some hope, that poker will never die. Despite of Zynga Poker popularity and 10-100 times bigger size than any competitor, new players arrive to the market. Recently we have announced about PlayFish’s Poker Rivals arrival. Now there is another player with 1,200 monthly users – Broadway Poker . It has been developed by 2 quite famous social games (Scrabulous) developers brothers Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla. It is still quite empty in comparison even with Poker Rivals or Poker Palace, but it is worth to try. The design is quite simple and nothing too fancy. Brothers Agarwallas created different games on the launch, not like other Facebook poker applications when they launch Texas Holdem in the beginning and set “Coming soon” for Omaha games, which are getting more and more popular among advanced players. Beginners has a nice hint in the bottom of the table, so i could call this room quite a good place ...

Zynga is the social games company which produces the biggest and huge success social games for biggest social networks. It’s main competitor is PlayFish which always try creating similar games. Zynga has FarmVille, Playfish has Country Story, Zynga – CaffeWorld, PlayFish – Restaurant City. Zynga has Texas Holdem, so PlayFish just launched new poker application called Poker Rivals . It is a nice poker room with similar features such as daily chips lottery, achievements, friend invitations and gifts etc. Flash client is much nicer than Zynga's (personal opinion). Here is the table view of PokerRivals: As you can see it has some interesting and nicely designed features. Hopefully it will become popular and good competitor to Zynga’s Texas Holdem.

Bwin engineers are updating the software to integrate a first social media feature in the poker software. That will cost $45 million. The future features are described vaguely – something like shoutbox or instant messenger which should help social interaction and communication among players. Guys, just invest a couple of million to community building in most popular social media like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace and you will be much ahead of your competitors! :)

Major poker rooms have and had a short names since years. Full Tillt is called FT; PokerStars – PS, PartyPoker – PP. UltimateBet was always called UB. It became so popular that management of UltimateBet decided to change the name and the logo from UltimateBet to UB.com . With the new logo they should develop a cool social media presence. Also the URL is so short that can beat any popular URL shortener. So far ub.com redirects to ultimatebet.com, so all the changes will be in the nearest future. What else social media guru (definitely he is the best among poker players) Joe Sebok can do?

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 pok...

Poker 2.0 is getting some speed and boost in the internet. In order to spread a word about Poker and web 2.0 technology junction, I have created some other blogs and write a unique content for them. Yes, i do not copy-paste, because it would be bad for reputation, and, of course, for SEO. One of the most successful unofficial blogs is hosted in one of the best poker blog engines PokerKnave . Another one is in a blog aggregation service which allows original blog writing - PokerWeblogs . Short notes with some interesting considerations or any other poker related stuff is run in Posterous (their main competitor Tumblr hates me and bans all the time for poker content. Probably these guys do not play poker and do not imagine how much content poker players can generate). One more blog is managed in one of poker social networks PokerNations . So far this is the best social network for poker players. Blog features can be improved, but all the rest is brilliant. Of course I continue writing a...

I wish every blog could have such fate - getting domain and having own design. Yes, I am moving to another domain and will continue from there. As you may noticed my Twitter account @poker_2_0 , I have a new professionally made logo (thanks to my designer Toma; she made a great work!) which contains web 2.0 style and colors. I still have not decided what to do with all my posts, so so far I left them here. From now on all the blogs will be written in another Poker 2.0 version: www.OnlinePoker20.com Please remember it in case you will get to the error page or something. Also i am going for vacation, so will be back only in July. Turkey, Marmaris, I am coming! ;)

Just got the idea to collect all the poker pros in Twitter. Twitter does not have the requirement and the manner to collect real information about the person, sometimes it can be hard to distinguish the real poker pro from the fan who loves him/her so much that puts on their picture and tweets "on behalf". Some call such fans "squatters", but I would rather consider them as too zealous fans :) I would need some help from the readers, so if you know some poker pros which are not on the list, please let me know either in comments or privately. Here is the tweeting poker pros list: @phil_hellmuth - Phil Hellmuth (he also has a very active "fan" - @imphilhellmuth ) @MariaMaceiras - Maria Maceiras (Spanish poker pro) @philivey - Phil Ivey ( @phil_ivey is not a real one) @LizLieu - Liz Lieu @vivekrajkumar - Vivek Rajkumar (not sure if he is real) @ kristygazes - Kristy Gazes @LaceyJones - Lacey Jones @MariaHo - Maria Ho @michelelewis - Michele Lewis ...