Virtual Homes of Poker Players

Like any other entertainment and sporting celebrities professional poker players have a fan following. For various reasons the celebrities need to cultivate this fan following and see it grow. Larger fan followings can result in larger sponsorship deals. One way to reach out to fans is through a personal web site. Recently Phil Ivey launched his web site and this is an opportune time to check out what the web sites of the most popular poker professionals say.

Phil Ivey has known to be publicity shy and therefore, though he has been around a long time, has just set up a virtual home. However the web site, www.philivey.com, has nothing of substance as yet. It has a “Coming Soon” signboard placed across it. Ivey is known to be a cigar aficionado and has smoke billowing out from his name. The other message at the site is “Now I am going to teach the whole world to win at poker.” His fans will have to wait and see if that translates to free tips or paid lessons. The only functional feature is the link to Ivey’s Twitter account.

Phil Hellmuth has the biggest reach of all poker players. You can love him or hate him but cannot ignore him. Hellmuth’s web site has been laid out as a perfect celebrity web site with pages for biography, pictures, videos, blogs and tweets. All but the tweets are out of date. The unique aspect of Hellmuth’s web site is the virtual shop that sells his branded clothing range “Poker Brat” along with books and stuff.

The web sites of poker babes are more artistically done. Also they have more multi-faceted personalities, which make them more interesting. Liv Boeree’s web site describes her as poker player, TV presenter, guitarist and model. The pictures and videos are more personal than professional and this is a major plus point. Vanessa Rousso’s web site is laid out in a bohemian style and contains video blogs from the poker babe. Unfortunately the pictures are mostly the ones of Vanessa at the poker tables and not the glamorous ones that can be found elsewhere on the Internet (see picture).

With the popularity of Twitter the purpose of maintain a web site is defeated and most of these are in desperate need of an update.

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