I have been working for the iGaming industry for the past 3 years. Currently I work as a writer and as a social media marketer. I mainly worked as an affiliate manager, but I translated and have been writing for many other affiliate sites and not just poker rooms.
Some Poker Rooms and Affiliate Sites I worked for are:
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Below you can find some samples of articles I wrote during this month. I write original content and utilize key words if you want SEO. I also write Poker Room reviews, poker tips, strategy articles, live events coverage, etc...
As a social marketer what I do is to increase the exposure of the sites by bringing traffic and converting them into real money players, this could be done for poker rooms, casinos and sportsbooks and also for affiliate sites that want to have a bigger player database. Mainly I do this by utilizing facebook, twitter, myspace and forums related to the area.
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ESPN Coverage of the WSOP gets an Emmy Nomination.
The ESPN’s coverage of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) got a nomination for the Sports Emmy Award for the second year. This is one of the 54 nominations ESPN got this year.
The category of the nomination is for “Outstanding Live Event Turnaround” for the coverage of the final WSOP table. The final table was played on Nov. 9, were 21 year-old Joe Cada won the bracelet and $8.5 million on Nov. 10.
This year’s World Series of Poker will be on May 28th, with an inaugural Poker Player’s Championship. This event will be televised by ESPN and the winner will receive the Chip Reese trophy.
ESPN announced that they will broadcast the Main Event again that begins on July after the charity tournament –Ante Up for Africa-.
ESPN also got other nominations for NASCAR and the Tour de France coverage; they also have a new seven-year broadcast agreement for the World Series that will start in 2011.
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Annie Duke is the absolute winner of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
The Caesar’s palace witnessed how the amazing Annie Duke was crowned the first female champion of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker championship on Sunday. Duke, [login to view URL] pro, took home a $500,000 prize after beating her good old friend Erik Seidel, eight time winner of World Series of Poker (WSOP).
Seidel who stayed by Annie’s side tweeted "Ended 2nd to Annie Duke in the NBC Heads Up. She played an outstanding match. Easiest loss of my career, very happy for her."
She had 3 long days with dramatic matches. Her first round was against Andy Bloch. She also had a match with 2007 NBC Heads-Up Poker Champion Paul Wasicka, where she was at risk of elimination.
Duke’s pocket nines in the final hand were enough against Seidel’s A-2. Duke took the main prize and sent Seidel home with a $250,000 consolation prize.
Here were the final payouts:
Amazingly, nearly half of them, made it to the top 16. Some of the most remarkable pros that were part of the championship are: Patrik Antonius, Chris Monyemaker, David Williams, Erik Seidel, Phil Ivey, Scotty Nguyen, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Gordon, Doyle Brunson, Chris Ferguson and many more.
NBC’s television coverage will start on April 18th and end up by May 23rd.
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Estonia in war with online poker sites.
Some days ago, Estonia announced that they wanted to fight against illegal gambling. Last Tuesday they completed their list of illegal gambling operators that should be banned by the providers of internet service in that country. This law was released and implemented this year stating that there’s only one operator who has permission from the state and all others are considered as outlaw. This list includes 175 domain names and some of them are big online poker names.
Sites on the list are under penalty and have a fine for 40,000 crowns. Some of the names on the list were real companies interested in the Estonian market.
Most of the forums in Estonia related to poker are going under this law by the Estonian Tax and Customs Board. It is basically a decision to block all access to foreign online poker sites. The list of names includes PokerStars, Party Poker, Full Tilt Poker, Unibet and Bwin.
The only operator of the sector with a state license is the OEG group. Complains about the Estonian Legislation have come from every where the European commission said that online gambling could be considered one of the exceptional fields where the national governments can still apply their own policies even if they go against the EU agreements like the EU regulations on freedom of movement of goods and services.
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