It struck me I could not simply leave “Doyle Brunson Dies” as the last post on this blog site. That would resemble ending Star Wars after The Force Awakens. It’s a brand-new age for poker. Records currently are falling, and we’re practically specific the Main Event will lastly break the 2006 record for biggest field. And bye-bye Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino … … the Horseshoe is the World Series of Poker’s brand-new house. Unfortunate that both Mike Sexton and Brunson aren’t around to see it.
The WSOP’s in 2015 at Binion’s Horseshoe, downtown, remained in 2004, which likewise took place to be Pokerati’s very first WSOP. Our traffic then had to do with 12, and our editorial method was to — inform buddies in Texas what was going on in Las Vegas — total with outcomes of regional gamers they may acknowledge from the Dallas underground. To promote this brand-new blog site thing, I printed up service cards with this website’s web address and the tagline, “Dude, you believing ’bout poker?” I left them atop the urinals at Binion’s guys’s spaces (captive audience) and enjoyed the traffic rapidly grow to about 40.
It was an excellent run, today it’s time for me to carry on. In fact, 10 years earlier was most likely an even much better time. So is now, on the cusp of another poker development spurt — — if not another poker boom, then certainly a poker rise. For particular, a brand-new poker period.
What the purchaser will be obtaining from this determined seller is a cool-sounding high-level domain, with a killer link profile that would take years and numerous countless dollars for any brand-new website to generate; a social networks following that consists of a virtual who’s who of poker influencers; and sorry readers, I’m completely offering you out … … however whoever purchases the website will likewise get whatever e-mail address individuals were utilizing to leave remarks in 2009-13.
This domain, pokerati-dot-com, has actually been around for practically 20 years. (I likewise have dot-org, dot-net, dot-us, and soccerati.com.) Possibly this is my last post … … perhaps not, who understands.
When I initially introduced the website, A New Era of Poker Is Born”> Saddam Hussein was still alive and I wished to make adequate cash to some day play the WSOP centerpiece. Now I understand much better — — poker is tough and my abilities are stuck in about 2012.
Throughout the years, I’ve denied 4 deals in the Main Event-seat ballpark, one simply shy of a Poker Player’s Championship buy-in, and another — — yeesh, do not make me sob — — that woulda-coulda purchased a home. While I might have did not have business savvy to seal the offer method back when, now I simply desire money — — and, obviously, to return to the poker neighborhood a cool domain with monetizable properties.
This website’s a fixer-upper to be sure. In the ideal hands, there’s much capacity still to recognize.
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