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Zynga Ready for Real Money Gaming or Trying to Hide Failures?I was doing some research recently and according to the subscriber stats on Bloglines, these are the top ten poker blogs:
Tao of Poker
Guinness & Poker
Up For Poker
DoubleA’s
LasVegasVegas
BadBlood
Grubby
Cards Speak
Mean Gene
Bill’s Poker Blog
Network gambling/poker blogs CardSquad and OddJack are on opposite ends of the spectrum. CardSquad ranks up there with the top 2 or 3 poker bloggers while OddJack falls far short of the top 10 list.
Also of interest is that the only pro poker bloggers who draw enough subscribers to be in the top 10 poker blog list are Daniel Negreanu who ranks somewhere in there between Bill’s Poker Blog and Mene Gene, and Paul Phillips who just edges out DoubleA’s blog.
Obviously, the data set being used is based entirely on people who subscribe to RSS feeds using one particular tool. Some sites may get tons of web traffic but not many RSS subscribers. Who knows? Anyway, just thought it was interesting and figured I would throw it out there as some random tidbit of information.
[UPDATE] BG points out that I missed some alternate RSS feed URL’s. With those counted in, OddJack actually is sandwiched in between Mene Gene and my blog.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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You think you’re passin’ me? You think wrong. Prepare yourself for a round of hysterical begging and pleading for subscribers. And no way is some wannabee like Daniel Negreanu gonna get the best of me.
I love reading Daniel’s journal, but I can’t believe he doesn’t publish a full feed. It makes me want to write a serious scraper that will make an XML feed for me to read in Bloglines.
You better do more than begging Mene Gene. I’m coming after you!
:-)
Wil,
I agree. Especially since Daniel doesn’t seem to be aware of this limitation and rarely starts his posts off with a good opener. He’ll have a post about his heads-up match with some pro and it’ll start off with:
Wow, what a busy week. I’m feeling a little ragged.
That’s the part that shows up in Bloglines. Then the next sentence will be:
And I played the most intense session in my whole life. I was heads-up against . . .
Somebody has to talk to his webmaster! Hey, if his webmaster reads this: Dude, I’ll write you a feed generator that publishes a full feed for free if you’ll use it.
:-)
Bill