Poker News

Poker news: Poker, like so many other areas of sporting and gaming, requires a medium of critical interest information transmission. The recent growth of the poker industry through such formats as online poker rooms and the associated promotion of casinos highlight the need for a poker news service. As well, poker has developed a wide array of colorful and high profile stars, many of whom are very active and exciting in their efforts to achieve excellence and in doing so, promote the game.

Any seeker of poker news does not have look far in finding up to date poker industry information. One such source is the site www.pokernews.com. The site is an incredibly deep reservoir if relevant poker information. Beyond current happenings, it also provides a number of user services. It serves as a source of poker rules, calculators, online poker competitions, schedules for freerolls, live reporting, a selection of poker videos, and a series of poker forums. The site ranks poker rooms, offers advertising and promotion opportunities, provides poker strategies, as well as links to other sites and blogs. Users can also customize their own delivery of news items from the site. Interestingly, the calendar of freeroll tournaments is very user-friendly, with viewers only having to pass the mouse over a date to see a window providing information on time, date, site location, prize amounts, and qualifiers for any tournament over a month. Users can also skip ahead to other months.

The appearance of the site is very similar to any news media publication, with highly visible headlines and articles on current happenings. Profiles of featured players are also available. News articles cover such areas as happenings in the business portion of the poker world (such as ownership deals and acquisitions), happenings in women’s poker, ongoing events surrounding the exploits and activities of celebrities associated with the game (the participation of other athletes such as Boris Becker and Mats Sundin are examples), and editorial speculation regarding possible adjustments and improvements to the game.

A highlighted event is the World Series of Poker is given its own section on the site. The section is very well organized, giving an updated report on events, scheduling, winners to date, as well as their prize amounts. A small part of this section provides a link to dated headlines surrounding WSOP events. Participating players are also profiled. For anyone who is interested in keeping up to date with what is happening in the poker world, this resource is an absolute must.

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